Rise Walled Garden

25/05/2026

25/05/2026

Saw this lovely bird on the road to Rise. Hope they find our barn owl nestbox

25/05/2026

We had the most volunteers ever today! We ran out of chairs at coffee break. But there was a lot done

24/05/2026

We are at the Walled Garden from 9.30am tomorrow. Come and take a look round!

20/05/2026

Have you signed up to our upcoming Northern Network Spring Gatherings? 🌱

Taking place at Woodseats Community Garden in Sheffield this Friday and The Greenhouse Project (ran by ) in Blackburn next week.

It's an opportunity to come together, meet other folks involved in green community hubs and get inspired! Plus a free veggie lunch - what's not to love?

🌷 Sheffield: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-network-spring-gathering-yorkshire-tickets-1985793441640

🌷 Blackburn: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-network-spring-gathering-north-west-tickets-1985794161794

20/05/2026

PLASTIC FREE HORNSEA
supports Longbeach Leisure Park and Veolia.
SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, 28 May 2026. 10am - 3pm

18/05/2026

Lots planted out today including lettuces, Note we are very much here next Monday, ie bank holiday, if you want to drop by and visit.

17/05/2026

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15/05/2026

WE SPRAY THE FOOD… THEN WE EAT IT OURSELVES.
Humans may be the only species that will poison a living field to stop other creatures from eating it… …and then sit down and eat from that same field themselves.

And somehow, we call that normal. A tractor crosses a green field and the spray disappears into the air so easily that it almost looks harmless. But pesticides do not stay politely where we put them.

They drift. Into hedgerows. Onto wildflowers. Toward ponds and ditches. Into the places where bees feed, birds forage, frogs breed, and children play.
That is the part many people never see. We are told pesticides protect crops. But they do not only touch “pests”.

They can affect pollinators, soil life, aquatic life, and the wider food web that makes a living landscape possible in the first place. And then comes the strange contradiction at the centre of it all: We spray food with chemicals because we do not want insects to eat it.

Then we wash it, package it, and eat it ourselves. How did that become common sense? The good news is that ordinary people are not powerless. Choosing organic when possible, reducing pesticide use at home, planting native flowers, and supporting farming that leaves room for life — these are not small gestures. They are ways of refusing the idea that a clean field must also be a silent one. Because a field should not only produce food. It should still be alive.
When poison becomes part of growing food, the question is no longer just what we are killing. It is what kind of world we are choosing to eat from.

12/05/2026

THE MOWER STOPPED — AND THE GARDEN WOKE UP

In May, a British lawn can change without anyone planting a single seed.

The mower stays in the shed. The grass rises. Then come the small surprises: daisies, clover, dandelions, buttercups, bees moving low through the flowers, butterflies stopping where yesterday there was only short green silence.

We often think a neat lawn means care. But No Mow May asks a different question: what if care sometimes means doing less? Plantlife’s campaign encourages people to leave lawns uncut in May and beyond, allowing wildflowers to bloom and provide food for bees, butterflies and other insects. Even small wild patches can help.

And the reason is bigger than one garden. England and Wales have lost around 97% of species-rich grassland since the 1930s, which means many lawns, verges and roundabouts are now tiny chances to give wild plants a foothold again.

Some councils and communities have already seen how different grass management can reveal unexpected flowers, including orchids, and have moved toward more selective mowing in certain places.

So this May, leave a corner wild. Watch before you cut.

Sometimes nature does not need us to fix it.

It just needs us to stop interrupting.