Are you interested in organic gardening and growing?
Would you like to share an allotment?
Want to gain experience of gardening, growing or what having an allotment would involve?
Do you crave the natural elements and working with the environment?
Interested in healthy eating and knowing whats in your food?
Fancy a relaxed atmosphere with good company?
Got an hour or more to spare?
If so then this could be the place for you!!
Plants on Plates has been running for approximately 10 years, as part of Wirral Environmental Network. It is now a community allotment, with 4 plots, relying solely on volunteers to sustain the project. No previous experience is necessary, just an interest in gardening and the environment. You give what time you can and in return you get to take home some delicious, fresh, organically grown produce- put your Plants on Plates in a matter of hours- now you cant get fresher or cheaper than that!!
When?? Tuesdays from 9.30 am onwards
Where?? Ilford Avenue allotment site (off Poulton Road)
Individuals and community groups welcome (mums & tots, people with learning disabilities, mental health, healthy eating initiatives, cookery groups etc). If you are interested in helping in whatever small way you can, please ring 07960 311 829 and ask to speak to Clare.
Or
Just turn up on the day, whatever the weather......!!
Find out more
Volunteers meet every Tuesday, year round, on the Ilford Avenue Allotments, Poulton Road, Wallasey (9.30am - 4pm).For more information, contact us at
The Sandon Building, Falkland Road, Wallasey, CH44 8ER
Tel: 0151 639 2121
Fax number 639 4826
Email info@la21.net
In a nutshell
there is now a place in Wirral to grow fresh, healthy, organic vegetables and fruit and share them with other volunteers. There is also an accredited training scheme available in organic gardening and crafts. A great way to get started or share your knowledge with others.
Wirral Environmental Network
is a local charity and one of its aims is to encourage the uptake of lifestyles which will help the environment now and for the future. Eating food locally grown with minimal packaging can help, but it can be rewarding and enjoyable to grow it yourself.
What has happened so far?
Following the success of Tots Plots, a mini-allotment scheme set up in fourteen primary schools in Wirral by WLN, it was clear the there was a need for a community garden to be developed at our base here in Wallasey. There was an under-used, semi-neglected garden here. Funding was gained in the autumn of 2002 from New Wallasey Regeneration and the Gatsby Project. An accredited organic garden course was run through the WEA and the gardening began. The garden is now an improved wildlife habitat, after gardening without chemicals, using a variety of native plants and creating a pond. It also smells and tastes good and is a place to relax.
Other groups
As well as individual volunteers the garden has been developed with the help of other groups. Firstly the Social Services Central Park Project are a major user of the garden. Working Life, Tam OShanter Urban Farm, W.E.A, Riverside Centre, Eastham Conservation Trust, Dale Farm, Bambi Playgroup and SWNC Creche have all helped.
