This week, 4th til 10th April 2022 is Community Garden Week, which celebrates the amazing community and school gardens across the UK. All community gardens in the UK are different and are run by a variety of different people including children, older people, people of colour, people who have disabilities, women only groups etc.

Our Community Garden is maintained mostly by members of the local community who are homeless, have previous experience of homelessness or are vulnerable to homelessness due to issues such as mental health.

Some of the benefits from being involved at the community that members mention are: a relief from anxiety and stress from the enjoyment of nature; a sense of community and mutual aid; developing healthy lifestyles through growing, cooking and eating fresh veggie food; a deepening of personal connections with the environment and local wildlife; physical health from general gardening tasks; learning new skills such as bee keeping and forest skills and just having a great time in nature with a trusted bunch of people.

Today we had a large group of members new and old. As usual there was a sense of collectiveness that manifested in group members helping each other out when needed and we all enjoyed our day.

If you'd like to know more about joining the group or would like to donate to the ongoing maintenance costs of our project please contact Project Manager, Ruth - ruth@cambridgecyrenians.org.uk