Children are participating in the Ron s Plot gardening project in Hitchin
- Credit: NHDC
A social and therapeutic gardening project at the heart of a Hitchin community has received funding to continue its work helping the town s green-fingered young residents. Ron s Plot , which is based at Burford Way allotments and run by Getting Rooted CIC, received £1,070 from North Herts District Council s Hitchin Committee.
The project aims to bring together residents, community groups and businesses from the local area to share information and advice on sustainable gardening.
The funding will go towards training for practitioners to get children and young people engaged in outdoor learning. These online courses will be run by the Permaculture Foundation - which works to make agricultural ecosystems sustainable - and will be accessible to schools, community groups and home education networks.
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12:03 PM March 2, 2021
Updated:
12:04 PM March 2, 2021
A food rescue hub has been set up at Attimore Hall to help reduce the amount of wasted food in our area
- Credit: Attimore Hall
Swapping pints for punnets has pulled in the punters at three locked-down pubs hosting weekly hubs tackling food waste.
The team don’t know in advance how much or what they will get but they do know they always have enough to go round
- Credit: Attimore Hall
Welwyn Garden City s Attimore Hall has just become the latest pub to offer its beer garden to the Food Rescue Hub, just in time for Food Waste Action Week from March 1-7.