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09 May 2012

St Mary Magdalene C of E School is situated on a ring road in the centre of Peckham, and it is where two of my children still go to school. It is quite unpreposessing until one enters under the wooden arches that mark the entrance to a former access road that in the last two [...]
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03 April 2012

MG Katy writes… I helped out Kate and Gloria on Sunday afternoon in the amazing Rookery community garden on Streatham common. If you haven’t been I would really recommend it, it’s a huge plot they are gradually renovating and will provide fantastic growing space. The team are really enthusiastic and friendly. MG Kate adds… All [...]
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05 March 2012

MG Pamela’s update on the green waste management at her community project On Thursday 1 March Cressingham Gardens Estate was visited by Gareth Pert from Housing, Michael from Pinnacle and Paula Royal from the Policies Equalities and Performance Unit of Lambeth Council. Nicholas and Pamela showed them round, and the group met a number of [...]
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08 February 2012

MG Claire B writes: This spreadsheet (below) represents all the food I didn’t buy in 2011! I was inspired to start this spreadsheet by Mark Ridsdell Smith’s study of the financial value of produce he grows in a small space on his roof garden http://www.verticalveg.org.uk/ It made me wonder what do I save in a [...]
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17 January 2012

MG Jo writes: I’ve just spent 2.5 hours making paper pots which I’ve filled with compost and a variety of different tomato seeds, basil and chilli peppers which now all have pride of place in propergators on my window ledge. I am starting a monthly growing workshop on 27th January at one of Wandsworths sheltered [...]
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