Back to Front are at SHINE tomorrow from 10.30am – 12pm.
We have potatoes and various seeds to help get you started with growing at home.
Pop along and see us!
If you sign up to the project we can support your growing via our facebook page and visit your growing space if you become one of our active growers.
Spaces still available on the Back to Front workshop this Sunday 20 March, 1pm – 3pm at Thackray Medical Museum.
Get in touch to book a place: emma3@space2.org.uk / 0113 320 0159 (ext: 5)
Grow early and recycle
Grow an interesting variety of chillis, tomatoes and salads to enhance your food and environment this summer.
Re-use your plastic bottles to create bottle propagators, self-watering seed protectors and to grow in confined places by making salad towers. We will provide seeds, compost, pots, materials and inspiration to use your waste and space in innovative ways.
Come along to our FREE food growing workshop at
SHINE, Harehills Road on Tuesday 8 March, 10.30am – 12pm
Find out about how to grow fruit and veg at home
Get helpful tips and ask advice from our knowledgable project facilitators
Drop-in no need to book
Spring isn’t too far away. There’s lots to be getting on with and you can learn more at our events. Look out for our composting special at the Thackray Museum at the end of February. Click on the link below to find out more and book a FREE ticket.
We were extremely saddened to hear about the loss of Joe Maiden. Joe had been a great supporter of our project since the beginning and we were honoured to have him come and inspire us in the past and at the start of this growing season. He didn’t have to come and deliver this training but he did and shared not only his vast knowledge and experience, but also his passion and personal memories, drawing everyone into his world.
Many of our Harehills growers have plants grown by Joe in their gardens from this workshop. We like to think the passion of Joe will in this way spread from neighbour to neighbour. Joe’ front garden design for his kitchen garden won a gold award
We send our sympathies to Betty and family, as well as Tim and the team at Tim and Joe at BBC radio Leeds.
Thank you Joe, we will miss you but the memory of you and what you stood for will live on
Tuesday 4th August 11am – 1pm
FREE family growing workshop at Thackary Medical Museum, 141 Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7LN
Come along to Thackary Medical Museum tomorrow and join the Back to Front team to have a go at food growing, answer your food growing queries and sign up to the project.
Everyone that signs up to the Back to Front project tomorrow will receive FREE pass to the Thackary Medical Museum
Come and join Back to to Front at Harehills Family Fun day
Back to Front Growing Mentors Workshop.
On Tuesday 16th June we hosted Mark Ridsdill Smith from Vertical Veg who ran a workshop for registered Back to Front growers and mentors. It was a fantastic event and all the growers that attended learnt a lot.
Have a look at the Vertical Veg website for more information.
http://www.verticalveg.org.uk/
Please email info@backtofront.org.uk to be added to our mailing list for future events and to find out about how to get involved in the Back to Front project
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Some people dream of making it big on X Factor. Our fantasies about fame are much less ambitious. All we’ve ever wanted to do is be on Gardeners’ Question Time on BBC Radio 4. Towards the end of 2014, our dream came true (which, sadly, is not something many X Factor contestants get to say).
Gardeners’ Question Time (GQT for ease of weary typing fingers) was first broadcast in 1947 and has a long and honourable history of being the gardeners’ go-to gardening programme. We’ve written before about all the hard work that went in to make the GQT visit to Back to Front a success.
There’s a lovely feature about Back to Front in the middle of programme, featuring interviews with lots of participants and volunteers. It explains why the project was started, how it’s progressing and its impact on local communities. We’re thrilled with it – if we could frame it, we would! – and delighted to share it here. Even if you don’t have a garden, it’s still worth a listen. There are also some great tips on growing food in small spaces and in raised beds.
Back to Front on BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time
So, make yourself a cuppa, snuggle in a comfy chair and enjoy the dulcet tones of Bob Flowerdew and the rest of the GQT team putting the gardening world to rights. Meanwhile, we’ll listen again, whilst wondering what ambition we can fulfil next…
*The mosaic in the picture was created by Hyde Park Source and Cross Green Community Group, our partners on the Fewston Bridge community garden. It now sits proudly at the entrance to the garden, send a lovely message to us all. ‘Growing Together’ – long may it continue.
