Rooted in the community- VolkerLaser volunteers at Worcester Community Garden
On Tuesday 18 August, five VolkerLaser colleagues volunteered at Worcester Community Garden, supporting the charity’s efforts to maintain and enhance the space for the local community to enjoy.
Worcester Community Garden is a registered charity running a half-acre site on the edge of Worcester racecourse. The garden is part of Transition Worcester, which is committed to developing resilience and a more sustainable way of living within the community. The site follows organic and no dig principles to produce vegetables, fruit and flowers with zero chemicals and zero air miles.
The volunteering day began with a tour of the beautiful grounds, which is made up of several smaller gardens, each serving their own purpose. These included an allotment garden, orchard garden, medicinal plant garden and many more. The dedicated volunteers at Worcester Community Garden grow a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, which are sold at the kiosk at the entrance to the garden. They also produce their own jams and marmalades, with all proceeds reinvested back into the garden.
The first task of the day involved transporting soil, which had been excavated to create a new pond, to some newly donated raised beds in the ornamental flower garden. Topsoil was then added, ready for the new flowers to be planted. As part of an exciting new flood garden project, some members of the team also assisted with continuing the pond excavations. The team then turned their attention to weeding and deadheading, a gardening technique that involves removing old, faded flowers to encourage new blooms and healthy plant growth.
“It was a delight to welcome five hardworking volunteers to the community garden. They threw themselves into the tasks on hand and helped us to progress the creation of a new demonstration flood garden. We are also very grateful for the donation of woodchip, which will play an important role in retaining moisture and suppressing weeds within our raised beds and orchard.”
Jon Hodenham Trustee at Worcester Community Garden
