Dear friend, June has been a beautiful month up on the allotments with vibrant flowers in bloom and the community harvest in full swing with plenty of salads, kale, herbs, chard and broad beans. And to top off an already fantastic month was a rare wildlife sighting of Red Belted Clearwings by Melanie Penson, Conservation…
The artist Dame Laura Knight is regularly mentioned in relation to the Hungerhill Gardens. Her Uncle Arthur was a tenant during the late 19th century, and, to her biographer, she recalled “Uncle Arthur bringing home washing baskets full of roses from his allotment at Hungerhills, enough to fill three cut-glass bowls followed by the harvest…
National Volunteer Week 2023 National Volunteer Week is an annual celebration of volunteers contributing within their communities in all kinds of ways. At STAA we are excited to join National Volunteer Week again for 2023, and this year we will be running a series of taster sessions for potential volunteers to come and see what…
On the 12 September 1862, the Nottinghamshire Guardian reported that an Amateur Horticultural and Flower fete by “a society, whose object is the promotion and encouragement of Horticulture and Floriculture, has been organised, during the past few months, amongst the amateur gardeners of the Hunger Hills and its immediate neighbourhood.” The fete was held in…
You may remember that the Rev. (and subsequently Dean) Samuel Reynolds Hole was synonymous with the St Ann’s Rose Show at St Ann’s Allotments. From attending his first show in the 1850’s he came to know the rose growing secrets perfected by the local working men in their glasshouses on the Hungerhill Gardens. He became…
Dear friend, We’re delighted to announce that we’ve secured a further 3 years of funding from the National Lottery Community Fund for our new Growing Together project, starting in May 2023 🌟 The funding, worth £225,000 over the 3 years, will enable us to continue the activities previously funded in the Gateway to the Gardens project…