{"id":25,"date":"2011-09-30T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2011\/09\/30\/community-food-garden-plans-afoot-at-avery-hill\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:58:53","slug":"community-food-garden-plans-afoot-at-avery-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/greengreenwich\/2011\/09\/30\/community-food-garden-plans-afoot-at-avery-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Food Garden Plans Afoot at Avery Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the Sustainability Team ventured up to the Mansion Site of Avery Hill to meet with Robert Holden and the Garden<\/a> and Landscape Design<\/a> staff at the School of Architecture and Construction<\/a>. The topic under discussion was the plans for building a University community food garden. The project will be collaboration between the three schools at Avery Hill (Architecture, Education and Health) and staff and students who work and live on the campus to create a space where they can grow fruit, vegetables, herbs, salads and whole manner of delicious treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Statue in the Winter Gardens at Avery Hill Mansion Site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

With assistance and advice from Capital Growth<\/a> and the Greenwich Co-Operative Development Agency<\/a> the plans are afoot to create a space that will not only provide food but could also double up as an outdoor learning space, social area and a sensory and medicinal garden. Using inspiration from the ideas of permaculture design we are hoping to reuse and upcycle a number of items located around the campus including tyres, pallets and an unused gazebo.<\/p>\n

The garden will be set-up on the Southwood Site, just south of the sports hall which is also where the university is planning on planting an orchard later this year. The orchard is being designed by the London Orchard Project<\/a> who are trying to create a \u2018fruit tree revolution\u2019 in London by promoting the virtues of home grown fruit and planting new community orchards all across the capital. We have earmarked the 1st December as the day to start the tree planting and will be hoping to round up a good few staff and students to get stuck in and involved with the planting.<\/p>\n

When the orchard is planted it will not be the only source of fruit on campus as the sustainability team has discovered over the past 18 months there is already a lot of fruit hidden away in the nooks and crannies of Avery Hill. Exploring the campus you can find mulberries, blackberries, crab apples, sloes, quince, damsons, plums and as we discovered today even grapes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Greedy Green Gnome’s Greenwich Green Grapes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The other discovery of the day \u2013 and almost as exciting as the grapes \u2013 was the website wordle.net<\/a>. This website converts a body of text into a graphically delightful jumble of multi coloured words. Just look at what it has done to the University\u2019s Sustainability Targets.
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University of Greenwich Sustainability Strategy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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