March 2017 - Walled Kitchen Gardens Network

June Tanish writes. . . At the beginning of the month I was asked along to give a workshop at this year’s Trellis conference. These annual conferences are always excellent for ideas, inspiration and networking and well worth attending. I thought I would talk a bit about volunteering and offer some of my own experience in recruiting and motivating volunteers. One of the things that I thought would be interesting to show folk would be what some or our own volunteers thought, why they became involved and what they want out of their own involvement. Initially planning a short video clip on my phone (!) things spiraled into something quite… Read more »

Orchard beginnings… Its wonderful to see the start of our tree planting in the garden – we are setting out and planting our new orchard, some of the trees already purchased by our new members last December. If you haven’t yet been sent your certificate these will be coming out by the end of the month. The soil is quite compacted in this part of the garden so we will be digging biggish holes for these new trees and mixing the soil with lots of good organic matter before they go in. Our thanks to Diana Simcock for her generous contribution of a bulk bag from Garden Solutions to dig… Read more »

We have had a request from Gerd Schurig, a curator in the garden department of the Foundation of Prussian Castles and Gardens. He is also a member of the German Kitchen Garden Network. He is hoping to buy one or two patent Copped Hall grape bottles to exhibit in a historic reconstruction of fruit preservation in the garden at Sanssouci. If anyone reading this message has any Copped Hall grape bottles to spare would they please contact Gerd Schurig, wiss. Mitarb. Gartendenkmalpflege Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg / Gartendirektion PF 60 14 62 14414 Potsdam Tel. 0331 / 96 94 234 g.schurig@spsg.de

Kitchen Gardener (Part time – 4 days per week) 12 month temporary contract Salary: £16,800p.a. (£21,000 FTE) This is a wonderful opportunity to be a key member of our gardens team working at the award-winning Chiswick House and Gardens. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, reliable gardener to lead in the development and running of our productive kitchen garden. The ideal candidate will be an experienced gardener, with a good knowledge of growing produce and general horticulture. To apply: Please read the job description which can be found at www.chgt.org.uk Applications should be received no later than 9am on Monday 27th March, by CV and covering letter, explaining… Read more »