{"id":59441,"date":"2021-09-22T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59441"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:21:56","slug":"revolutionary-in-a-quiet-way-the-rise-of-community-gardens-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59441","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Revolutionary in a quiet way\u2019: the rise of community gardens in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Revolutionary in a quiet way\u2019: the rise of community gardens in the UK<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Royal Horticultural Society sets up first Community Awards as community gardens become more common<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lucy Mitchell, a community project worker with the Golden Hill community garden, in Horfield, Bristol.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Adrian Sherratt\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cT<\/span><\/span>he first melon of the season always tastes amazing,\u201d says Lucy Mitchell. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone has ever taken one home \u2013 every year, we just cut them into as many slices as there are people in the garden and make sure everyone gets a melon moment.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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After almost a decade of being involved with the\u00a0Golden Hill community garden in Horfield, Bristol<\/a>, she never gets complacent about the significance of these simple things. \u201cWe remember \u2018Big Jim\u2019, the biggest sunflower who ever grew here, or the miracle sunflowers that grew in the gravel and we wait for the frogs to return to the pond. These things all layer into our story and we look forward to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Community gardens are becoming ever more common across the UK, and at the end of September, the Royal Horticultural Society will announce the winners of its first Community Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere groups like this existed, communities seemed to be more resilient when it came to a crisis [like Covid] because they had a pre-established network of volunteers and people already knew each other so they could easily offer support,\u201d says Kay Clark, who heads up the RHS community gardening programme. \u201cWith wellbeing and nature connection becoming top priority during lockdown, we had this massive surge of interest in gardening and the community groups were there to help people learn how to garden, teach skills, share knowledge, plants, tools and all sorts as well as inspire people and cheer them up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gardeners chatting at the Golden Hill community garden in Bristol<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Adrian Sherratt\/Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u2018Revolutionary in a quiet way\u2019: the rise of community gardens in the UK Royal Horticultural Society sets up first Community Awards as community gardens become more common Lucy Mitchell, a community project worker with the Golden Hill community garden, in Horfield, Bristol.\u00a0Photograph: Adrian Sherratt\/The Guardian \u201cThe first melon of the season always tastes amazing,\u201d says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[31821,4351,6917,820,2080],"class_list":["post-59441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-anna-turns","tag-community-garden","tag-the-guardian","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59442,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59441\/revisions\/59442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}