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Canbury Community Garden

Canbury Community Garden is a shared space beside Canbury Gardens, where we hold weekend gardening sessions for anyone who'd enjoy growing edibles and productive outdoor exercise (at your own level and pace), learning new skills or sharing your experience.

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There's always plenty to do for helpers of all abilities, Find out more, including confirmation of or changes to our weekend gardening sessions and opportunities available, on our Facebook page.

More about the community garden

Since summer 2016, volunteers have been transforming the neglected former gardeners’ yard on the edge of Canbury Gardens into a productive, wild-life-friendly, community garden.

If you’d like to learn more about wild-life-friendly gardening, or you're a keen gardener with skills you could share, or you’d enjoy working alongside other people to grow herbs and other edibles, come along to one of our events or weekend gardening sessions - there's always plenty to do, depending on the season, your abilities and the time you can spare: watering, weeding, planting, harvesting, tidying, composting… Children accompanied by a responsible adult are welcome too.

The basic principle is that those that do the work share in the harvest - and we have had some excellent harvests of runner and broad beans, tomatoes, herbs, courgettes, spinach…

Canbury Community Chicken Collective keep a few chickens in a run in the garden; they are out and about during gardening sessions and fun to watch.

There's plenty of evidence that outdoor activity can help fight depression and provide a few hours of respite from everyday worries (for example see https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/13/green-therapy-gardening-helping-fight-depression) - though that's not the only reason to come along!

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What people say

FM: "Thank you...! It was fun, and a really beautiful garden.

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Canbury Community Garden

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Canbury Gardens
Between Kingston Riverside (tennis) Club and Kings Passage

Kingston upon Thames

KT2 5BB

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