A NEW campaign to renovate long redundant greenhouses at Blackburn’s Witton Park has been launched. The Greenhouse Project would see structures renovated as a ‘growing, learning, wellbeing and community hub’. The aim is then for volunteers to produce seasonal food to take home and cook so that they are eating healthily. It is also hoped that the project will enable people to have the skills needed to start growing food from their own homes. Project leaders said local organisations could also work with people at risk of food poverty to ‘encourage wider growing’. Andy Mather is Myplace Project Officer with the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. He said: “These are a huge complex of five interconnecting 30 metre greenhouses that were abandoned over 10 years ago. They were used by the council to grow plants for the borough but then got out-sourced.
Wildlife and Nature
Snow blankets berries on a bush in Hollow Meadows, near Sheffield. PA Photo. Picture date: Friday January 8, 2021. Forecasters predict that the cold spell affecting much of the UK is due to continue, with temperatures expected to remain slightly below ave Well it’s been proper cold hasn’t it? We have witnessed winter days like those recalled by older folk who remember day after day of frosts being annual events. Few can deny the beauty of a leafless tree covered in snow and ice crystals glistening in the winter sunshine that we have had the fortune to be blessed with recently.