DOWN-TO-EARTH sessions are for home-schooling families and those with under 5s. We meet every Wednesday in term-time 1:30 - 3:30, but you can leave earlier to pick up older children from school.
WOODLAND PLAY sessions are aimed at 5-8 year olds and their siblings, accompanied by a parent. We meet every Wednesday in term time 3:45 - 5:00 gathering at the play area in Highbury Park.
Both these weekly sessions cost £3 per child, with concessions for siblings or accompanying friends
HOLIDAY EVENTS take place at half-term, and in the main school holidays (as you might expect!).
Holiday events run slightly longer than the weekly sessions, and cost £5 per child, with concessions available for siblings and friends.
June 2016 Holiday event SCARECROW DAY
On Wednesday 1st June 1 - 4PM, Jenny and Liz will be guiding families as they make scarecrows for the orchard and decorating the place with scary faces. Please bring suitable clothes for your scarecrow by rummaging through cast-offs at home, or foraging in charity shops on the High St! There are no tickets to purchase, but booking in advance is advisable Please book with Liz via [email protected] or 0121 628 2680.
More information to follow …
April 2016 Holiday event BEES ARE US
On Wednesday 6th April 1 - 4PM, Verity and Cristina join Liz to go a bit crazy about bees. We’re making them, dancing like them, even singing about them, bombing places with seeds of flowers they love, and eating food made with their wonderful honey! Please book with Liz via [email protected] or 0121 628 2680, but BEE very quick as sessions tend to get booked up.
We’re hoping schools will join in our Design-A-Flower challenge, and that local businesses will come up with some sweet offers you’d like to take up.
The BeeQuiz is ready and downloadable. Be amazed at these facts and figures about bees.
LG Davis (Printers) have helped us produce a fabulous leaflet about pollination and why it is so important we look after honeybees and their fellow pollinators in the wild. Look out for the leaflet at the Kings Heath farmers markets coming up.
Friend and beekeeper Enid Peel is germinating dahlia seedlings to encourage gardeners to have beautiful flowers that are also bee-friendly. We will have these on offer at Kings Heath farmers market in the near future.
York Supplies sell a wide range plants and less common seedvarieties that are bee-friendly. Look out for the Perfect for Pollinators symbol
or find out more from the RHS here.
Johnstans Butchers and KHBA are sponsoring our whole series of Nature-in-the-Community events this year.
Thank you everyone!
February 2016 Half-Term Holiday Event POTATOES ARE US!
VERY SORRY, THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER.
As a consolation, here is the PotatoQuiz for your family fun indoors.
On 17th February, Jenny and Liz are going overboard about potatoes! We’re going to play, plant, craft and eat them. We have a fabulous keyhole garden to plant them in, and hopefully some sacks or builders bags will be put to use for planting as well. Then there’s potato sack races, potato and spoon races, “That’s not a Potato …”, a potato quiz, potato cuts, potato monsters, sweet potatoes baked in the campfire, and anything else we can dream up in the meantime.
Later in the year and hoping for a bumper crop, we will be giving at least half of our potato harvest away to a food bank, or if that’s not possible to The Really Junk Food Project.
Schools can get involved by holding a Potato Day in their classrooms and turn the learning opportunities into anything to do with potatoes. Retailers can get involved by creating window displays or deals, special dishes and possibly secret recipes to celebrate the humble potato. We might even inspire you to plant some in your own back garden !
Please book very soon with Liz via [email protected] or 0121 628 2680. We think places may go like Hot Potatoes!