On September 20th, Wimborne Community Garden was crowned Winning Community Garden at the South & South East In Bloom Awards at RHS Wisley – for the second consecutive year. Adding to their success, the garden also received the Judges Award, acknowledging the dedicated direction in which the core team has led this flourishing community project.
The garden, which is part of the charity Faithworks, focuses on growing produce to share with Wimborne Food Bank, the Community Kitchen and of course Beaucroft College’s café, as the garden is part of their site. Over the past two years the garden has developed into a flourishing space, filled with vegetables, fruit and flowers; it’s also become a space filled with a great deal of friendship and joy.
Like all gardens, it continues to grow – plans for a small kitchen area are in progress, enabling cooking skill-sharing, recipe swapping and the chance for communal feasts.
The awards judge praised the project: ‘The work that has been done over the last two years at Wimborne Community Garden is amazing. Keep up with this brilliant project—it certainly shows what can be achieved by a dedicated community group.’
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