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Go Wild is a project to create a space for nature in the town park. Volunteers have worked hard in the wild patch to make it a place which attracts wildlife and particularly encourages bees, butterflies and other insects to thrive. We meet in the park from 10 – 12 on the second Saturday ofContinue reading “Go Wild needs you!”

What a fabulous community event the Apple Festival was on Saturday Oct 5th. We joined in the fun and it was lovely to chat to so many people about what we do. The blue hearts flew off the stall and we look forward to hearing if the sunflower and bean seeds grow well next spring!

Saturday 27th April saw 30+ people join in with a seed swap. Visitors to the event at the town library enjoyed free craft activities, seed swapping and chats about all things gardening. If you missed the event, just pop along to the library with any seeds you would like to donate and pick up somethingContinue reading “Seed Swap Success”

Would you like to help us make Trowbridge an even nicer place to live? We have space for all ages, abilities and interests from litter picking to behind the scenes admin, from digging to repairing, from campaigning to running activities. There’s something for everyone. If you would like more information, please drop us a lineContinue reading “Volunteer with us!”

The seed library in the town library is now nicely stocked up thanks to those who ran and attended an event during half term. We even made it into the Wiltshire Times (expand the story by clicking on the title to see the link). If you would like any new seeds or have some toContinue reading “Seed swap social”

A big Thank you to A F Harris Tree Services for this wonderful donation of wood chips for our Go Wild patch! We will be using these to protect our precious hedge whips planted by volunteers a few weeks ago, and hopefully go some way to holding back the vigorous and never ending war withContinue reading “Go Wild news”

If you are interested in this and feel able to contrbute any time towards this project, the team would be very grateful. “Bath & West Community Energy Programme paid a £1,800 grant in January 2023 to Climate Friendly Bradford for a Trowle-Trowbridge Greenway feasibility study by CFBoA and Trowbridge ECO. Project leader Andrew Nicolson agreed toContinue reading “Trowle-Trowbridge Greenway”

The AGM took place on Sun 29th October and it was was great to see some new people. For full details of what was discussed and to see ideas for activities for the coming year, please see the minutes under the About menu.

On Saturday 14th October we held a Seed Swap event at Trowbridge Library. It was lovely to meet new people and give and receive packets of seeds. Children particularly enjoyed extracting sunflower seeds from a sunflower head! The Seed Library can be found in the town library and we are always grateful for flower andContinue reading “Seed Swap”

Moving to a new venue didn’t put anyone off and September saw another successful repair cafe at with over 40 items being saved from landfill. The event had a lovely community feel and we even made it into the Wiltshire Times (click on photo to see link). The next Repair Cafe is on Saturday 25thContinue reading “September Repair Cafe”