Felt privileged to work with NSC this week. Day one we discussed the asylum system and how people are treated. Garden members, facilitated by Almamy gave stories and asked challengees to campaign on issues important to their hearts. They had a tour of the garden learning about how activities provide […]
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With the purpose of building community resilience and integration, the Mother Gardens project has developed a scheme this year to work with refugee and migrant groups who grow food, and connect them with local land-based community projects around the city. Kushinga Garden is a key participating project in this scheme. […]
An active and vocal group of us met this month to think about how the year went, and what we plan to do in the future. Thanks to Pat from Elmwood Welcome Project for some lovely photos. Feedback when we first started the garden could be agonizingly positive, people […]
Katherine Lanham a geography student at Oxford University asked the Kushinga Garden to get involved with her research project over the summer. The idea for the project stemmed from her interest in the City of Sanctuary movement in Birmingham. Supporting refugees and asylum seekers is something she has always felt […]
How have you found the garden this year? It has been brilliant in 2015, the group has really taken off, lots of people, the site developed and is looking very nice, much more productive than in previous years. We have heard about the popular sweetcorn, whats been best about this […]
Best thing this year, was finding out how to plant maize. Maize is a good vegetable, I enjoy eating it, it has a natural taste, what we grow is better than the market, its very hard, not like the soft market one. It doesn’t taste of chemicals, we use manure […]
Dot is a long standing community member who loves to talk and engage with everyone. She’s full of knowledge and enthusiasm, a brief chat highlights what’s been good, what she likes and what has grown this year from her point of view. What has been good about garden this year? […]