Bicester's Community Garden

06/06/2020

Free Onions outside Studi02, Cemetery Lane. Freshly pulled up, several varieties. Also, fresh sage available.. bring a bag and take what you need

22/05/2020

Bicester's Community Garden is currently on but not to Nature!

We spent some time there today enjoying the fresh air & pottering around doing little oddjobs.. there is still a lot of work to be done & we are looking forward to being able to schedule work sessions again.

It was amazing to see so much in bloom especially seeds that we had planted in the winter. Our wildflower areas are blooming & buzzing with bees & other insects (we counted at least 5 different types of bee in the short time we were taking photos). We have lovely Yellow Rattle growing up the hill & in the soft fruit bed we have grown a lovely mixture of bee loving plants: Borage, Phacelia and Essex Broad Red Clover. Foxgloves that we grew last summer from seed are also now in bloom.
As you can see some of the garden needs a little attention & the weeds are growing freely, however it is as nature intended, so who are we to go & spoil the natural order?

Our Heritage Fruit Tree Co trees are all thriving & we have tiny Victoria Plums & Discovery Apples growing already. It would be lovely to hear back from the schools later in the year to see how their Orchards are coming along too.

We will keep you all posted over the coming weeks & announce our work sessions just as soon as it's safe enough to get back to it.

Keep safe everyone

Grassroots Bicester Bicester Green Cherwell District Council Sanctuary Housing OYAP Trust, Bicester Town Council, Langford Orchard Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust - BBOWT, Community Action Groups - CAG Oxfordshire

13/02/2020

Yesterday at the Garden: a little tidy up of Storm Ciara's damage and we started our new bug hotel: Buglins 😂😂

It's lovely to see our spring flowers popping up looking for sun.

Grassroots Bicester, Relove Bicester, Perch, Oxford Office Furniture, Bowen in Motion, Bicester Good Neighbour Scheme, Bicester Green. Langford Orchard

30/01/2020

Wednesday 5th February will be our next session at Bicester's Community Garden. 🌷🌱

We will be attempting to work on installing the sleepers along one of the flower beds and preparing the Garden for Spring. Gareth from Sanctuary & Haven - Home and Gardens has offered to come along and help us with the sleepers, so we'd like to say a huge thank you to him, we are very grateful for the help 💚

Come along from 11am - we have refreshments, so just wrap up warm and wear sensible footwear please.

Bicester's Community Garden
Studi02 (OYAP)
Cemetery Lane
Bicester OX26 6BB

Grassroots Bicester, Relove Bicester, Healthy Bicester, Bicester Green Gym, Langford Community Orchard Group (Bicester), Bicester Town, Sanctuary Housing, Bicester Village Designer Outlet, Community Action Groups - CAG Oxfordshire, Sanctuary & Haven - Home and Gardens

25/01/2020

Hi all, the fridge is open this morning with a small selection of bread, a few chillis and still some sprouts.

25/01/2020

💚💚Today's the Day 💚💚

Grassroots Bicester, Relove Bicester, Relove Bicester, Bicester Green Gym, Healthy Bicester, Bicester Freegle, Baby Bank - Bicester and Surrounding Villages, Bicester Community Fridge, Bicester Community, Tim Cw, Volunteer Centre Oxfordshire

26/11/2019

Bicester Primary Schools are planting their Fruit Trees from our Orchards for Schools project. Together we are planting 67 trees in the Bicester area.

Are you planting a tree for The Big Climate Fightback?

Grassroots Bicester, Relove Bicester, Heritage Fruit Tree Co, Bicester Village Make a Difference fund 2019

Plant a tree to help reduce your carbon footprint, tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, fight flooding and make landscapes more resilient.

23/11/2019

Keep your eyes peeled for Christmas Gifts that Grow

Random acts of kindness from the Grassroots Bicester team.

If you find one, feel free to take it.

Send us photos of your beautiful sunflowers next summer when they are in bloom 💚

Our team have spent the afternoon creating Christmas Gifts that Grow. As part of the Bicester Acts of Kindness movement, we have created envelopes containing Sunflower seeds as a little Christmas gift to whoever finds them.

We will be hiding them in shops, schools and businesses around Bicester from the end of November. If you find one of our envelopes, please feel free to take it. 💚

As well as our envelopes, we will be hanging seed packets on our Christmas Tree at the St Edburg's Church Christmas Tree festival. Please take one from there if you see one

Happy Christmas from Grassroots Bicester (Relove Bicester & Bicester's Community Garden team)

Grassroots Bicester, Relove Bicester, Bicester's Community Garden
Healthy Bicester, Sanctuary Housing, Bicester Village, Bicester Freegle, Cherwell Valley Today, Your Letterbox Community, Bicester Advertiser, OYAP Trust, Bicester Green Gym

09/11/2019

We'd like to say a big thank you to Seedball for the donation of a huge bag of Wildflower oddball mix which came in the post today. Thank you so much. We cannot wait to get our Wildflower area sown and are looking forward to Spring & Summer next year to see the the results :-)

Grassroots Bicester, Healthy Bicester, Sanctuary Housing, Bicester Village, Bicester Green Gym, Bicester's Community Garden