High yielding, low maintenance home gardens

Host: Pippa

Participants: Roger Murray, Kathy Vagg, Ian Donald, Amelia, Susan Murray, Penny, Wendy, Dirk, Emma, Polly

Main points of discussion:

  • We will need to grow as much food as we can within Lewes
  • Permaculture design – provides some useful tools for designing high

yielding, low maintenance gardens

  • Training is needed – a reskilling – a buddy system – matching those with experience and those who want to learn
  • Lots and lots of unused land in Lewes e.g. school grounds, parks, traffic islands – map all this land as a first step towards using it
  • A community garden – equipment share system
  • Gardening is a game you can eat – it’s fun
  • Publicity – perhaps a regular column in the local paper on gardening

Focus areas:

  • Training in permaculture
  • Training in food growing
  • Mapping all unused land in Lewes

Get involved: contact hello [at] TransitionTownLewes.org.uk