We were delighted to welcome back the Forever Hounds Trust with their fantastic Fun Dog Show again this year, as always generously sponsored by Berry House Vets, who provided the rosettes and prizes.
This year's Open Day had even more fun stuff for kids than ever, and almost all of it aiming to reconnect kids with the natural world.
We're very grateful for all the lovely prizes donated by local businesses and individuals for our Open Day Raffle.
Today another bunch of willing employees from local building components company Crane, joined our Garden Club regulars to tame the weeds in the Forest Garden ready for our Open Day on Sunday. Luckily they had good weather and really seemed to enjoy their morning. Well done guys and thank you!
We hope to see you and your families on Sunday when we host our Open Day, Bake Off and Fun Dog Show on Ransom's Rec.
We're very excited to see what this month's volunteers from local company Crane have been up to! On their April visit, the team of six split into two groups - one helped Garden Club build two new raised beds for our Growing Ability project, and one group started to paint the woodwork inside the Pavilion. The next group of Crane volunteers are due to visit on 4th May - we can't wait to see what they achieve!
We very much enjoyed our recent Quiz Night and are delighted to announce that it raised £700 this year for our projects! Big thanks go to the events team who organised it and to all who attended. Special thanks go to Brigid Bassindale and her boys for setting and scoring another top-notch evening of quizzery!
Today marked the first day of a mutually beneficial relationship for the Triangle Garden: it was our first volunteer morning with employees from local components company Crane, of Wilbury Way. Crane's American parent company have a very strong community ethos and we are delighted that their Hitchin branch has chosen us as their charity partner in their latest volunteering enterprise.
The snowdrops are here and even in the snow they are a cheerful sight!
We're delighted to announce that our funding bid for £1000 to Herts County Council's 2017-18 Locality fund has been approved by Cllrs Judi Billing and Derrick Ashley (thank you Councillors!) and we now have the funds to buy the materials to rebuild our raised allotment beds. And thanks to a fantastic offer by a local building company we have the volunteers to help build them - more about this next week.
If you look hard enough this week you should see some tiny Winter Aconites peeping out from the undergrowth along the path under the lime trees. Some are over but a few are still in flower. These lovely little buttercup-like plants are among the first up to catch the spring sunlight, and live out their short growth season before the tree canopies leaf out and cast too much shade. Thier latin name is Eranthis hyemalisand they come from the deciduous woodlands of southern France, Italy and the Balkans where they carpet the woodland floor at this time of year.
