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Recent Press: Dave Richards writing in permaculture magazine on the growing interest in the garden as an outdoor classroom. The Outdoor classroom

Aspire Reading; This project involved working closely with the Whitley excellence cluster of schools to develop low maintenance sensory gardens with 6 schools in the Whitley area of Reading.

Our brief was to develop unused corners of school grounds to create attractive and productive landscapes stimulating interest in plants, produce and recycling. See the Project Blog

Doing the hard landscaping work at one of the Aspire Schools. The hexagonal oak seat will also be a sundial and compass. And the plantings will include fruiting trees and shrubs, kiwi vines and a bamboo grove. The beds are sheet mulched with zoocompost and straw, woodchip and card. In the foreground we have excavated a hole for a new pond.

 

• St John Fisher School Harrow
  Transforming a piece of derelict ground on to an 'Awe and Wonder' garden, with living willow hide within a mixed orchard of fruiting trees, shrubs, climbers and herbs
• RISC Roof Garden; We have gained significant experience in project maintenance, interpretation and development in our 5 years of involvement with this ground breaking project

RISC Roof Garden
See a recent article about the project
where we make the case for green roofs
See the Roof Garden project Website

This project transformed a leaking and ugly flat roof into a 210 square metre garden of over 180 species of edible and medicinal plants from around the world. The garden is comprised of many recycled and reclaimed materials and is fed by composted waste and stored rainwater It is an excellent teaching resource for exploring issues around sustainability and other global issues.