About us
The “Planting Up” community garden project was formed by a few passionate people from Transition Town Milton Keynes (MK) in summer 2017. Our project group consists of people from all walks of life who are the driving force of our project. It’s our volunteers’ dedicated time and effort that enables us to create, maintain and promote fantastic community spaces. Our first site, and original base-camp, at Westbury Arts Centre shows us how lots of elbow-grease coupled with enthusiasm and community-spirit can transform a grassy pasture into a productive, permaculture paradise. Our Mission In 2017 our original aim was to establish a community garden at Westbury Arts Centre (WAC) that uses permaculture principles to improve the Arts Centre’s outdoor space to better serve the local community and the natural environment. From 2019 we extended our projects beyond WAC and our mission changed to one that supports the creation of more sustainable community gardens across Milton Keynes (MK). Our mission is now to encourage, educate and empower people to create local sustainably run community gardens that connect them to the natural world and each other in growing food, enhancing wildlife habitats and cultivating their community.
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