The Community Garden

Lower Kingshill Management Co-operative Ltd. (LKMC) have developed an Organic Community Garden thanks to funding from Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust, and Gloucestershire Community Foundation (Grassroots Funding & Comic Relief). 

LKMC sits amidst many social housing properties – with many families/residents unwaged or/and on low income.  Stroud District Council, is our Landlord, and very supportive of our idea.  So much so they dedicated the site that the Community Garden has been developed on. 

The Project has been set up to encourage residents and families on the estate to grow fruit and vegetables they can use themselves at home and for our ‘Cooking Rocks’ courses set up to teach children the basics of cooking and learning about healthy eating. 

A volunteer living on the Estate created the raised beds and seating areas; the fencing erected by a local businessman and painted in fun primary colours by a local contactor. 

The Community Garden has been opened since 2008 and we have regular workdays run by keen residents, and a dedicated group of 15 children/young people; who have now formed a group and called themselves ‘The Garden Gang’. 

This is the third season and already ‘The Garden Gang’ has produced an assortment of vegetables, which has been distributed throughout the Estate. 

We are very proud to have won 1^st prize in the Children’s category of Stroud District Councils Tenants Garden Competition for the last 2 years, and we hope to win again this year. 

Some of our members have completed a course in Organic Vegetable Growing, with the “Down to Earth Co-operative” and are now able to help and instruct other residents to start organic vegetable gardens.

Update on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 10:03AM by Roy

THE LOWER KINGSHILL GARDEN GANG DOES IT AGAIN

The Garden Gang have won first prize in the Stroud District Councils 2011 Tenants Garden Competition again for the 3rd year running.

This is all due to the hard work put in by all the members both children and parents.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM ALL  -  WELL DONE.