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Want to get your fingernails grubby and show a little community goodwill at the same time?

Course you do.

Which is why you should be stepping forward to lend any spare time that you may have at the weekend to help out the good folk of Transition Town Wivenhoe with the transformation of a barren patch of land into a community garden.

Currently an unexciting scrub, the location that we are talking about is beside the Montessori and the KGV playing field. Ownership is with Wivenhoe Town Council. An agreement has been reached to transform this land into a live, growing community garden.

What are needed this weekend are Wivenhoe folk with wellies (‘aint gonna rain, oh no…) to come along for any period of time between 10am - 4pm on either Saturday or Sunday. We’re not talking a Titchmarsh regimental planting and pruning of the pansies, but just a bit of good old fashioned digging for victory.

The project is part of the Jubilee Garden, or Wildlife Garden, depending on whom you talk to…

Either way, the aims are the same - to create a community space in the centre of the town. Wivenhoe Town Council has secured significant funding. It has even led to a debate around the council chamber about as to how best protect the beetles.

Blimey.

It is to the credit of WTC that the project is now being partnered by TTW, who are able to lend their time and enthusiasm to help make the Jubilee / Wildlife Garden a success. The aim is for a legacy for the town, linked in with the planned KGV celebrations for Brenda over at the KGV over Jubilee weekend.

You can email John for me information over here.

Plus: Can you dig it? It may have been estuary wilds weather out there earlier, but it didn’t stop Wivenhoe in Bloom from planting and sewing very early on Wednesday morning in the flowerbeds up by The Cross.

From small things, great things grow.

Get digging…