Thank you to everyone who has helped to make 2022 such a successful year for Olden Community Garden!

Best wishes to our neighbours and local community groups and to our members and volunteers.

And a Happy New Year!

Could you help plant bulbs in our newly revamped rockery, or collect leaves to fill our composters? Or could you help plant raspberry bushes? Come and join Caroline our gardener at any time on Saturday 19th, between 10am and 4pm. No experience needed. All ages welcome. Coffee and cake provided. This is our last Saturday of the year before the winter break. Tuesday volunteering days will continue until 29th November.

A very successful potato harvest was held at half term in Olden Garden. Families and children came along to dig up the potatoes. Several varieties of potato came up, blue, yellow, red, purple and white – a rainbow of colours! And everyone had a bag of potatoes to take home.

Thank you to the volunteers from Acacia Avenue, Islington, who came along to aerate and top dress our lawn – helping to improve drainage and increase nutrient retention

Thank you to the BIG Alliance volunteers who renovated our steps – filling them with 30 bags of new shingle

We need volunteers. Could you help with gathering leaves to make leaf mould or with planting spring bulbs? Come and join Caroline our gardener at any time between 10am and 4pm. No experience needed. All ages welcome. Coffee and cake provided.

Olden Community Garden receives Silver Gilt award in the Best Community Garden category.

Thank you to the BIG Alliance volunteers who installed our nine new bird boxes – bought earlier with our grant from Local Giving’s Magic Little Grants

Three new wooden leaf composters installed by volunteers from the BIG Alliance

Huge thank you to The BIG Alliance for the team of 15 volunteers who came along to install our three new wooden composters. The volunteers hung up our nine new bird boxes – bought earlier with our grant from Local Giving’s Magic Little Grants. They also dug, planted, weeded, moved dead branches and generally made a huge contribution in just one day!