Walsall community garden welcomes all for a brew and a biccy...
Greenacres Community Garden in Goscote, Walsall is now a 'Place of Welcome', and it wants the community to know so they can pop in for a cup of tea, and maybe even pick up a bit of produce from the allotment while there.
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00:00Goscutt Greenacres Community Gardens and this morning it's a place of welcome so what is
00:10Goscutt Greenacres Paul?
00:12It's a community garden which we have plots we rent out, we run a volunteer programme
00:16for adults with learning disabilities, we sell our veg and food we sell to the local
00:21community and we run a garden maintenance scoop so we're involved in lots of things.
00:26Fantastic.
00:27And this morning you look after the coffee shop here don't you?
00:29I do.
00:30So this morning it's basically thrown it out to the community isn't it saying come down
00:34have a cup of tea, have a biqui, say hello.
00:36Yeah, try to bring people into the site and then I can try and plug them a few vegetables.
00:40I love it.
00:42And Catherine how often do you come down here?
00:45Three.
00:46How often?
00:47Three times.
00:48Three times?
00:49Yeah.
00:50Yeah and what do you think of it?
00:51Do you enjoy it?
00:52Yeah.
00:53Yeah?
00:54Cool.
00:55It's nice to be out in the open isn't it?
00:56So have you had a go at planting and digging and stuff?
00:57Yeah.
00:59What have you planted?
01:00Have you managed to grow anything successfully yet?
01:02Yeah.
01:03Yes.
01:04What have you grown?
01:05Courgettes.
01:06Courgettes?
01:07Yeah.
01:08I like a bit of courgette mate.
01:09I'll be coming round yours, good in a stir fry.
01:12So Paul this event's on today, do you think you'll be having any more similar events coming
01:15up in the future?
01:16Every Friday.
01:17Every Friday.
01:18Oh fantastic.
01:19Every morning when people come down.
01:20Great stuff.
01:21So it's Goskert Lane isn't it and they followed a sign for the community centre just at the
01:26back of there.
01:27By the polystyrenes at the rear of the Goskert Centre.
01:30Great.
01:31There's some lovely plots here isn't there, there's a nice bit of colour going on.
01:35There's some lovely plots here isn't there, a nice bit of colour going on, like you say
01:39a nice bit of veg and a nice place for a bikkie isn't it?
01:42And a cake.
01:43And a cake, cool.
01:45Well thank you for inviting us down guys, all the best.
01:48Thank you very much.
01:49Yeah.
01:50How are you sir, you okay?
01:51Yeah.
01:52Good man.
01:54So I keep turning this sometimes, leave it at this.
01:55Yep.
01:56And then I just concentrate back to this left side as long as the wheel is in front.
01:57So you can bring your timing off can't you?
02:15So if people haven't got a motor, can they get here by bus can they Paul?
02:19Yes you can get the number 25 bus from the Walsall Bus Station, head off at the bottom
02:22of the hill and we're there, fantastic.
02:23Morning folks.
02:24Morning.
02:25Good morning sir, nice to see you here this morning.
02:26Would you like a cup of tea or a coffee with us this morning, it's our welcome morning.