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The fruit and vegetable garden has really progressed this year with our polytunnel proving invaluable, multiple raised beds appearing and the erection of a fantastic donated greenhouse. We aslo have the fruit cage in situ and ready for planting! 

Our beautiful sensory garden, designed and laid out by our garden designer, Karen Blight, has really taken shape this year. It is hard to believe that this vibrant space was bare soil in only March! 

We held a wonderful open day in March to mark the progress we have made in the garden. Over 250 people attended, including our two local Mayors, Penny Rivers and Adam Duce who each planted a new apple tree to mark the occasion. And we had out wonderful new sign on show, made by the expert woodworkers from Men in Sheds, and kindly funded by Gorringes, our local undertaker in Godalming.  

Although the infrastructure to make the garden accessible and secure was not in place in the summer of 2023, that didn't stop us from putting in some raised beds for veg, and the results have been amazing! The soil really is good, and a bit of pig manure helped too! 

In early December our garden designer, Karen Blight, held a wreath-making workshop. This was a fantastic fund raising event - and resulted in some amazing creations! 

In October, with the help of the Copse Community Orchard project who kindly donated the trees, we were able to start our own orchard, with 6 heritage fruit trees! 

We raised over £400 and loved telling people about the garden and sharing our enthusiasm for plants!

It was great to be working together on the garden site at last - but it is bumpy right now! 

There are some great wild flowers on the garden site and we have been keeping an eye on where they are so that we can look after them. This orchid is in the undergrowth near the oak trees.

Our neighbours at Broadwater lodge care home have a small farm and have a large pile of well rotted pig manure they have kindly donated to the garden. Bringing it round to the site was hard work, but well worth it!

The garden has a clear, open grassy area surrounded by mature woodland - here are some of the spectacular oak trees showing their inner structure like only deciduous trees can.

When we held our first public meeting about the garden we were able to bring people onto the garden site for the first time so that people could really get a feel for the scope of what we are hoping to achieve. Here the site slopes down towards the ditch, which is where we are planning to site the wildlife pond.