Zero Mile Gardens

02/10/2025

Coming up next week :

Cooking & baking on Friday, pressing apples, eating and dancing on Saturday!

Booking essential !

Come along to our free cooking sessions at St Thomas Community Food Hub on Friday 10 October to make soup, cake and bread for Harvest Meal at Exwick Parish Hall on Saturday 11 October.
The session are:
11am-2pm to make seasonal soup and apple cake.
4-6pm to make harvest loaves with
Book via Eventbrite https://love-food-cic.eventbrite.com

25/09/2025

Still time to book a place on the workshop by wonderful compost expert, Nicky Scott.
Book on our website or eventbrite!

We've been collecting vegs scraps, grass cutting, comfrey, and wood chip to make a compost hip together on Saturday garden. Exciting!

20/09/2025

I have been saving some seeds of the tomatoes growing our polytunnel.

I usually just take the seeds out of the tomatoes, spread them on a tissue and let them dry, ready to sow! They have always germinated very well.

This year I had a go at fermenting the seeds before drying them, just letting them in their gel to ferment for a couple of days so their anti-germination coating disappear. They're less sticky and a bit easier to store maybe? Well, I'll sow both next year and we'll see which one does better.

any surplus seeds may go to Exeter Seed Bank 🫛

19/09/2025

We've been sorting out our compost area at the garden.
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To launch Zero Mile Gardens' composting season and plans, we have invited Nicky Scott, our great local expert to tell us everything about compost making, using, improving, and joys. We'll also have a tour and demo.

Book your space on our website or eventbrite

https://www.zeromilegardens.co.uk/events

What's our plans then?

We've installed more composters so we can produce more of our own compost to use in the beds and in the plant nursery. It means less expense, less plastic bags wasted, better quality and healthier plants! There is a small compost collection in Emmanuel Hall's kitchens that we're planning to scale up a bit, working with the team there. We also plan to use other resources on site (toilet rolls, cardboard boxes among others). We'll be working on this in the next months. Watch this space!

We have 2 different types of composters (there are many more and of different sizes!) so we can trial them but also show visitors how they work and what could be best on different sites and different homes.

Well, and compost making is also fun!

Let's share the fun and joy of compost, starting next week 🥰😍

15/09/2025

Interesting online event on community gardens and growing !

🌱 FREE ONLINE EVENT: Community Growing – the things that get in the way!

Join us for an informal session for community gardeners, (or people who want to get in to community gardening) as we talk all things Governance and Access to Land/Space.

This is a follow on from our first session in August, which focussed on Engagement and Funding, but you don’t need to have been at our first session to join this one.

Find out more and sign up here: https://events.more-human.co.uk/event/community-gardens--growing---the-things-that-get-in-our-way-part-2-governance--access-with-eden-project

10/09/2025

September, some rain finally, and some new talks and workshops to get into the autumn!

Join us on Saturday 27 September for a rich and engaging session with local expert Nicky Scott, aka Dr Compost, on Mastering Compost: Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting.

Book your space here :

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mastering-compost-tips-techniques-and-troubleshooting-with-nicky-scott-tickets-1672949439809?aff=oddtdtcreator

04/09/2025

Webinar on the Local Food Growth Plan Report by sustain, coming up on Thursday 18 September ! Can wait to know more about the plan! https://www.sustainweb.org/events/power-of-local-food/

Join us as we share insights from the recently published Local Food Growth Plan, and on how we can scale the local food sector for security, economic and placemaking benefits.

23/08/2025

The happy winner of the raffle prize and our first ever veg box, coproduced with Mark

It is a one off for now! Let's hope we'll do more some days
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22/08/2025

What a couple of weeks!

Thank you so much for all the beautiful children and young people, and their grown-ups for these lovely moments.

Many thanks to all the workshop leaders: , Megan from , and John from

Also many many thanks to all the volunteers who helped make the events go smoothly, Alice, Emily, Daniel, everyone who watered the garden in between sessions, brought us fruits and treats, as well as the and teams, and our sponsor for these events

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15/08/2025

A great classic event in st thomas 🥰🌻🥕🍑🍅🧅🫑

THIS SATURDAY! We hope you are all looking forward to the annual allotment produce and craft show. We can’t wait to see you all there. Don’t forget everything you need to know about the show can be found on our website: https://www.stthomasallotmentsassociation.org/exeter-allotment-annual-show-2025

14/08/2025

Making seed bombs, harvesting potatoes, planting herbs, tasting tomatoes, getting lost among the marigolds...
We had a lovely time! Many more activities this week and next week. We have a few spaces left. We have a gazebo for rain or sun, a garden trail, colouring pens, space for picnics, so you can make a day of it!

Booking on Eventbrite for all session but gardening sessions Thursday morning are drop in.

12/08/2025

Our first event of our Garden Summer programme went really well today! Children made seed bombs in the garden using wildflower seeds collected in the garden. It was run by .

We kept cool under the shade of the gazebo and in the breeze. Check out our website or eventbrite for more events this week and next. Another seed bomb making workshop will take place next week on Thursday

All free activities, made possible thanks to a grant by

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