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About the Highfields Garden Project
George Deans - September 2011george.deans@kirklees.gov.uk
About the Highfields Garden Project
We are trying to do the same things as we did on the old site which is to grow things and learning about gardening while having fun. We offer work as an alternative to day care for adults with learning disabilities, regardless of their ability. Everyone is involved in growing a range of produce including flowers, herbs and vegetables The work involves:
- sowing seeds, transplanting, re-potting.
- planting up hanging baskets and containers
- weeding, digging
- riddling soil, making up compost
- developing the site by making paths and raised beds.
Since we've moved into the Highfields Gardens site we've created a quiet/memorial area, a woodland walk with lots of daffodils and a large bed of perennials where the plants should be beneficial to wildlife. We've also created a flower border full of annuals and bi-annuals and are working on creating a winter garden which will be mostly shrubs and bulbs.
We grow plants for sale and on site there are a number of different perennial plants available, a selection of herbs and hanging baskets made to order. The money we make from the sales allows us to continue developing the site. Come along and see the Gardens - it's well worth a visit.
George Deans, Community Enabler
Well-being and Integration
Highfields
Cemetery Road
Huddersfield
HD1 5NF
Tel: 0780 174 1874
Email: george.deans@kirklees.gov.uk
Well-being and Integration
Highfields
Cemetery Road
Huddersfield
HD1 5NF
Tel: 0780 174 1874
Email: george.deans@kirklees.gov.uk
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