Property News · June 25, 2016

Me and my garden: ‘We had six weeks to turn a dog toilet into a community garden’


Carole Wright is an urban beekeeper and gardener in south LondonYou don’t have to come from a conventional background to get into beekeeping. I’m a London girl and it started through gardening for me.I moved to the South Bank after living in a hostel for two and a half years and being essentially homeless. Within two weeks I came across a community garden off Library Street. My grandparents used to live overlooking the space but I didn’t recall a garden, so I went in. “Why have you got all these raised beds, a couple of ponds and a lovely greenhouse next to these ramshackle pre-fabs? What’s that all about?” That’s how my involvement with Bankside Open Spaces Trust began. I started by volunteering; I became a trustee and after about a year I got a job as a community gardener running after-school clubs and Saturday gardening based on food-growing. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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