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Hounslow Community Foodbox

🌱✨ A Huge Thank You to Green School for Boys! ✨🌱This growing season, the incredible hard work of the pupils from Green School for Boys has been instrumental in our efforts at the Brickfield allotment. Thanks to their dedication, we've been able to harvest an abundance of fresh, organic produce for residents in need across our Borough. 🍅🥕🥒We also extend our deepest gratitude to Sally, Ryan, and everyone at Cultivate London for their unwavering support, running weekly Gardening Workshops at our Brickfield plot. This fantastic initiative has not only helped us educate the students about gardening and sustainability, but also raised awareness about food poverty in our community. We hope it has inspired them to grow their own gardens at home with their families. 🌾🌻🌿Thank you all for your tremendous support! 🌾💚#ThankYou #CommunitySupport #GreenSchoolForBoys #Gardening #Sustainability #FoodPoverty #CultivateLondon #BrickfieldAllotment #HarvestSeason

Guy Lambert ● 188d2 Comments

Such a great initiative!  Gardening and growing even the smallest number of plants can be really satisfying. Herbs are particularly satisfying - especially ones you use fairly sparingly (well unless you have masses). Cultivate London have done some wonderful work over the years.After an adult (not me) fell onto and broke some of my kitchen basil plant I just put the broken off branches into water to save them for later and forgot but hey presto - I now have several new rooted plants.  If I'd thought about propagating it I'd have worried about it and probably wouldn't have succeeded.  Some plants are easier to grow than others of course.If you do have masses of basil then do try making your own pesto - it is truly fabulous compared to pesto from a jar!One year we bought a whole lot of plants from Cultivate London in Acton.www.cultivatelondon.org

Philippa Bond ● 179d

Wonderful.Simon Carter (my wife had all of his chuldren at Christ the Saviour, Ealing) is building a wonderful school community there.

N V Brooks ● 188d