What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Local charity wellbeing project Your Space are working with people in Holbeck to Grow Our Own fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers. The free Sunday gardening group started mid-April and has been utilising under-loved spaces in the area to re-green the urban environment. Not only does this help the planet and
One happy ‘green shoot’ emerging from the stress and sadness of last summer’s restrictions was a big increase in people growing their own food; a physical activity which benefits your mind and body as much as your taste buds. But even in good times not everyone can afford to buy
Over the past year when everyone has been spending more time at home people have shown a lot more interest in gardening. Many are put off as they don’t know where to start, think it’s too complicated and that you need a lot of expensive tools. So we are here
I have been experimenting with Hydroponic and Aquaponic Growing Hydroponics the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil. Aquaponics a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish or other aquatic creatures supplies the nutrients for plants grown hydroponically,
A successful gardening competition has added the icing to the cake after work by Leeds City Council to make tenants’ gardens more manageable on the Millshaw Road estate in Beeston. As well as the winners: Gypsy Morton (first), Laura Holmes (second) and Karina Ishaq (third) everyone who took part received
Last Friday (10 May 2019) Beeston residents joined forces with staff from First Direct bank in Stourton, rolled up their sleeves, and got stuck into some community gardening together. The ten-strong group tidied up the community garden outside the unused Holy Spirit church on Tempest Road, and planted new fruit
My name is Stewart Walton, and I have lived on the Rochefords for several years and enjoy the local community I live in. However, the one regret I have is the lack of green planting within our estate and the litter. So, I’m starting the Friends of Hunslet Gardening Group.
Residents of Greenhouse joined up with neighbours last Saturday (24 November 2018) to spend an afternoon planting 250 hedge-plants around the building. Greenhouse is the block of eco-flats and offices at the north end of Beeston Road that was previously Shaftesbury House. With most of the countryside around Leeds being
Here’s another entry for the St Luke’s CARES Community Awards has been submitted by Holbeck In Bloom, the volunteer community gardening group. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. I have been treasurer for Holbeck in Bloom for over six years now and in that
Belle Isle in Bloom – This is a group of local volunteers who are involved with making the area look better and brighter with flowers and trees! Julie says “Thank you to local businesses for donating to help make this happen and to insta-planta for the sign! “We are always