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This is my beautiful friend Kerry, I want to tell you about her and about how without her this business probably wouldn’t exist at all. Kerry had been a mental health nurse for the NHS.… Read More »Remembering Kerry

These are my broad beans I have  planted. Soon we are going to put canes up for these broad beans to grow. This is a crocus  that was a sign that spring is on its… Read More »Guest Blog: Gardening in the Winter by one of our young gardeners

There is a lot of jargon used in education and when you don’t know what a term means, it can be hard to stop a meeting in its tracks and ask. We’ve gathered together as… Read More »Decoding the Jargon

The Broomfield Bakery is a small bakery in Bovington. I started it during a session with Green Sparks. We are selling Chocolate Chip Cookies /White/Dark/Milk and Milk Bread at the moment and if you want… Read More »Guest Blog: The Broomfield Bakery

These herbs are made for cooking. I planted herbs. They smell nice. I like smelling things when me and Naomi work together. These plants are called strawberries. The flowers will turn into strawberries one day.… Read More »Guest Blog: My Container Garden by one of our young gardeners

This is just a quick update to express our thanks to The7Stars Foundation who have agreed to fund a programme of work for a young person in Bridport. The foundation work nationally to support under… Read More »Thanks to The7Stars Foundation

Green Sparks has had a very busy few months – that’s my excuse for failing to blog in February or March and I’m sticking to it for now. Between January and March we moved from… Read More »Learning from Living

January has been far more fun than expected, considering how gloomy midwinter can be. Among other highlights, we managed to complete a session in the midst of freshly fallen snow (this felt especially lucky as… Read More »Starting out again

December has given us lots of opportunities to reflect and learn as we work with children who, like us, seemed to feel more and more excited and overwhelmed as the month went on. We have… Read More »Surviving the festive season

November has been a busy month for us here at Green Sparks. We have started work with our first cohort of children at a time of year when activity in the garden is usually centred… Read More »A Busy Month