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Preview: Horsforth Community Garden launch
National World - LocalTV
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13/03/2025
The Lord Mayor of Leeds will launch the Horsforth Community Garden in Horsforth Hall Park on 22nd March - here’s how it’s shaping up.
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Here we are in Horsforth Hall Park just in front of the Japanese Garden and we're at
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the site of the wonderful new community garden.
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From a seed of an idea to reality, the Horsforth Community Garden has been a labour of love
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for the Friends of Horsforth Hall Park since 2021 and they're almost ready to officially
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launch their green haven.
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Four years ago during lockdown when we were doing food parcels, one of the volunteers
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said wouldn't it be great if we had a community garden and so that was Janet Little.
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We are lucky enough to have an ABCD asset based community development community builder
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in Horsforth, Claire Evans, so she worked with Janet and then brought together a team
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of people, did lots of consultation.
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The Parks Department were able to give us a guardianship of this piece of land which
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was just a patch of grass four years ago.
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One of the benefits of that is we're next to the yard so we've got access to water and
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storing tools and access to the parks tools as well.
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Locals have been proud to invest time, effort and funds into the development of the space.
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We've raised about £25,000, we've installed accessible paths, that was the first thing
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we did because we felt it was really important that we wanted it to be for the whole community
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so for the paths to be accessible, so that was the focus of the first year and then we
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then went on to build raised beds, so we've got a system of beds of different heights,
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some ground level beds, going up to sort of waste level beds, again one of our main volunteers
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is in a mobility scooter so she enjoys gardening from the higher beds.
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We've had funding for an orchard so we've got apple trees, espalier and cordon apple
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trees, pear trees, plum trees, soft fruit.
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We've got a herb garden and then in the middle, because we wanted the garden not just to be
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productive for edibles, we wanted it to be a beautiful space that people could be good
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people's mental health and well-being, so we've got a lovely sensory garden in the middle.
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The stone circle was donated by stone traders at High Trees and then we paid a local garden
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installer to install it for us and then we've designed some really beautiful sensory planting
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which will last throughout the year and so it'll get all the senses, so movement and
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touch and sight.
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Bugs will be able to check in to their own hotel and the garden is sure to benefit all
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Horsforth residents for years to come.
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We've also got a little veg library which is a Leeds initiative, building on the little
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free libraries so where people can swap anything to do with gardening, so plant pots, seedlings,
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magazines and so on.
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We all know how good gardening is for our mental and physical health and that applies
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to everybody, young and old, when I do a lot of volunteering, some of it is to do with
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organising and behind the scenes work but what I really love is getting out and doing
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the practical stuff and that really gives me joy.
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