Just a few days left to grab the remaining rewards – Yes! you get something back when you donate – because loads of our local businesses have been so generous. See https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cottonmill-centre and help to build the BRAND NEW Cottonmill Community and Cycling Centre.
Come along next Wednesday evening for the first of our fabulous fundraising events!
Steve is laying on a charity quiz night for us at the White Hart Tap with a delicious Sunday Roast for Two as the prize. Fun, of course, will also be the winner!
Get your team together for 9pm Wednesday 1st December, no need to book. A maximum of six per team.
The CaSH team will be there to let you know more about the Community and Cycling Centre and there’ll be a chance to win a deluxe hamper in our raffle.
Thank you to everyone who made the AGM, it was lovely to see you. Thanks as well to Grow Community – Sopwell for the refreshments beforehand.
Read the minutes of our meeting, including our Annual Report and Financials in the Appendices, here:
Grow Community Sopwell presents: Autumn is here, never fear! An event to find out what you need to do in your garden right now.
Amanda Yorwerth
Amanda has always loved being outside surrounded by plants. Although she learned much of her gardening from her green fingered grandmother, Amanda studied for an RHS qualification in Horticulture before embarking on her professional gardening career 20 years ago.
She’s added to her qualifications with a garden design course at Capel Manor and she currently works as a gardener in St. Albans.
One-time allotmenteer, she now grows fruit and veg in her own garden and loves sharing gardening tips on her radio show, Environment Matters on Radio Verulam.
Sabrina Henry
Sabrina, a Sopwell resident, is an experienced food grower, working at a Watford college helping a group of students tend to a plot of land, growing fruit, flowers, and vegetables, delivering both group and one-to-one training. Her current interest is in food growing with a focus on eco-nutrition, an idea she developed through her MA research, growing for nutrients rather than seeking them far and wide.
16 years ago, after tending to roses and jasmine in a shared garden, with a few tomatoes, rocket, mint, and rosemary, she decided to study nutrition at Westminster University. Deeper questioning about what ‘organic’ really meant led to a focus on local and seasonal eating, to embrace food with higher nutrition values.
As a volunteer on a permaculture site for two years, Sabrina learned permaculture principles on food growing and composting. She studied Horticulture at OrganicLea, then volunteered at FoodSmiles Community Supported Agriculture project in Harpenden. Nowadays Sabrina grows vegetables both on a shared allotment and in her home garden, together with her young family. She grows an increasing amount of medicinal flowers and fruit.
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