Our Club Members are Spread Across the Ward!
We thought we'd work all year to find 100 households willing to make a pledge to take action in their own gardens to help nature. How wrong we were! We have had over 100 people sign up. The club has an active Whattsapp group to share their actions, ask questions and support and inspire each other.
Upcoming Events:
14th April - Come down to the Farmer's Market at the ACA to swap plants! Would you like to help at the stall, promote the stall, and coordinate the swap? email 100naturefriendlygardens@alwoodley2030.org.
Create your own pond workshop. Date TBD. We'll gather at the Northern Hub of the Yorkshire Rewilding Netowrk on Eccup Lane. Registration link to come.
Nature is having a hard time. One of the best things we can do to help is to put our gardens to work to recover some of what we've lost. In 2024 we're hoping that 100 households will sign up to be part of the Alwoodley 2030 100 Nature Friendly Gardens Club:
By joining, you'll
Receive four **Free** Seasonal bundles to help you take small actions in your garden. In each pack you'll receive items and activities to help you attend to the five key areas of wildlife gardening:
Food (Items might include: bird feeders, native fruit trees, seasonal flower bulbs and seeds, hedgehog food, berry bearing shrubs and plants, etc)
Water (Bundle items might include items to help you have a bird bath, hedgehog water tray, water butt, pond, bog area)
Connectivity (Bundle items might include activities to help connect up gardens, create wildlife corridors, increase tree canopy and trees to get you started.)
Wildlife Friendly Management (Seasonal bundle items might include advice on how to create leaf piles, compost areas, organic pest control, wormery, green manuring and some supplies to get you started)
Shelter (Seasonal bundle items might include hedgehog houses, bug hotels, nesting boxes, log piles, bat boxes and advice on best places to let grass grow longer, build rock/stone log piles)
receive a sticker to display in your garden (on any surface you'd like) to share that you're part of the club and encourage others to sign up.
pledge to take one action to make your garden nature-friendly each season and earn a certificate for fulfilling your pledge
have opportunities to connect, share, learn, garden, construct, and rewild along with others who have signed up.
be eligibile for nomination for year-end nature-friendly garden awards!
Sign up below!