May, 2011
A New Community Raised Bed Record
The Growing Ideas team broke all previous records when they installed and filled the 76th bed of the month (May) today – that brings the running total for this year to nearly 150 beds and that’s an annual record too. We have now given some 400 island households the chance to change their lives via [...]
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South Today and Growing Ideas
The Growing Ideas team were on the BBC’s South Today programme while delivering our award winning community project, Growing Spaces. Sadly, the programme is no longer available on BBC iPlayer but feedback has been coming in thick and fast, particularly from the students at Medina High School, Newport, where Kevin McNamara and Danny Giblin have [...]
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Record-Breaking May
Growing Ideas will be aiming to make, install, fill and support 80 new raised beds during May 2011. This represents the largest number of raised beds ever installed in a single month during the four years that we have been delivering the award winning Growing Spaces project. New staff have been taken on to enable [...]
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