EVERY FRIDAY* 10am to 2pm @ Top Meadow Garden *Starts 1st March 2024, excludes school holidays. Join us in the development of the Top Meadow Garden a unique native only forest garden with edible and rare species that sits along the River Rea in Ten Acres. Join Felipe (Spring to […]
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Top meadow is back this year in 2023 with some new sessions to help tidy it up and plant new edible forest plants. Thanks to the Celebrating Communities Be Bold Birmingham fund, via Sustainable Life and Food Forest Brum project managers we have plenty more sessions coming up soon so […]
Thanks to funding form the West Midlands Combined Authority via the Heart of England Community Foundation we are pleased to announce two FREE childrens storytelling events in Top Meadow Garden this year. Join us on 9th and 16th july at 1:30PM in top meadow garden on the woodland path in […]
This week we spent time on the Himalayan Balsam attacking the top meadow garden and river banks. Volunteers spent time pulling up each stem and snapping the roots, carefully laying them in existing patches to prevent any accidental spread. We also had a quick look at the muddy path which […]
We’ve been back down in TMG thanks to Love Brum this month working on a few more tree plantings and fruit bushes. We got some great plums in the ground and made headway on pushing back the sea of bramble to make more room for species. We’re planning a restorative […]
We are pleased to announce that we have won £1000 funding from the Love Brum November vote! This will earn us 10 additional Top Meadow Garden sessions with coordinator Felipe Molina in Ten Acres and help us get some much needed additional fruit trees and bushes in in the coming […]
We’ve not had the means to update you recently – our sincerest apologies for this – but never fear work has been carrying on (with regular photo update son fota/suslife social medias. So here is the update of the work now the project is nearing it’s end. The garden as […]
We ahven’t updated in while so here is a big gallery of what we’ve been up to! Lots of balsam bashing, path clearance as the brambles sneak back in, painting, leaf prints with wax, blackberry eating and plums!
Top meadow garden is now home to a small fairy village nestled on and around the hibernaculum using natural materials to decorate thier ‘gardens’ thanks to the kids of the top meadow gardening club! Can you spot them on your next trip out in ten acres ?
