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Upcoming Events this Autumn 2023

It has been too long since GC have put a post up on this website. Apologies for that, Cuckfield residents.

A drop in temperature and the Autumn leaves beginning to fall prompts the beginning of a new year for Greener Cuckfield. So to get started we have two events for residents this month.

This year our Annual General Meeting will be on Thursday 21st September at 8pm where our committee members will give our reports and nominate and vote for the seats on our committee. Will there be a reshuffle? You will have to attend or stay tuned to find out. One thing I can report in advance is that we have opened up a new seat for a ‘Vice Chair’.

All are welcome to the Annual General Meeting and we would love as many residents as possible. So if you are interested in coming, please do get in touch with us via Facebook or email us at hello at greenercuckfield dot org.

Our other upcoming event is our Energy & More event on Saturday 14th October at the Rose & Crown.

This event is going to be really informal and is being held on the day of Cuckfield Local Market giving you all the more reason to come!

The idea is that you can just walk into the pub and talk to any or all of our local specialists that you want to. This is a great opportunity if you have ever wanted to:

  • try a tool share or learn about one
  • create a wormery for your compost
  • install solar panels but never known where to start
  • find out more about insulation and how you can improve your energy at home
  • use a refillery but never been to one, or perhaps you have never heard of one and want to know more
  • find out about biodiversity in your garden and Cuckfield’s surrounding woods
  • find out what is good to be doing in the garden during Autumn months

There are, of course, other reasons why this will be such a great event. Above are just a few examples. Whatever your reason, we hope to see you there.

Finally, as the winter approaches, we will be starting a series of talks that will also be in a relaxed and informal fashion. They will be on a different topic with a different speaker for each event. But again, more details to come in due course.

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Mid Sussex Community Garden

Mid Sussex Community Garden has lots of exciting goals so if you love the great outdoors and want to help your community thrive please join us at our site in Cuckfield.  Things have been developing rapidly since spring 2020. We are a partnership between the community, Warden Park secondary school (the site) and the Sussex Learning Trust. We have fantastic support from UK Tree Action and the Woodland Trust who donated 350 diverse native saplings which were planted in last November by lots of enthusiastic volunteers.   The project is self funded and we recently had a very successful crowdfunder.

So far we have levelled off the site, created raised beds ready for the school children to start growing plants, cleared masses of brambles and debris and built an additional shed.  A poly tunnel and pond liner will arrive shortly, and a new greenhouse is in situ.   By the end of April, 120 hedging plants from the Woodland Trust will be delivered.   Water is piped in from large water butts.

A native species woodland and wildlife pond are planned, and one third of the site will be a fruit orchard with a wildflower meadow growing through it.  Being   passionate about enabling nature to thrive we intend to install hedgehog houses, bat boxes, bird boxes and large bug hotels, and hope to connect with re-wilding projects.

Pauline Sutherland who is training with the RHS says the project is “an ideal way to give back to the community, create inspiring learning spaces as well as to prioritise nature which is so important”.  

Our mission is to ensure the space is easily accessible, safe and welcoming for all ages and abilities. We want people to simply come and enjoy, grow food and plants and to volunteer their time and energy.   A large wooden cabin will also be built as an additional learning space for the school to use in the day, as well as offer the community another space for wellbeing, gardening and environmental learning. We are off grid and energy will be supplied by solar, toilets will be compostable.    

If you would like to join us please see our FB page Mid Sussex Community Garden https://www.facebook.com/groups/355617022278239/?ref=share

Or mscommunitygarden@yahoo.com

by Catherine Edminson