{"id":17682,"date":"2016-06-25T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-we-had-six-weeks-to-turn-a-dog-toilet-into-a-community-garden\/"},"modified":"2016-06-25T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T10:12:57","slug":"me-and-my-garden-we-had-six-weeks-to-turn-a-dog-toilet-into-a-community-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-we-had-six-weeks-to-turn-a-dog-toilet-into-a-community-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018We had six weeks to turn a dog toilet into a community garden\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCarole Wright is an urban beekeeper and gardener in south LondonYou don\u2019t have to come from a conventional background to get into beekeeping. I\u2019m 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\u2019t recall a garden, so I went in. \u201cWhy have you got all these raised beds, a couple of ponds and a lovely greenhouse next to these ramshackle pre-fabs? What\u2019s that all about?\u201d That\u2019s 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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