Ideas and possible partners for Community Gardens Open Day/ Trail

Garden Network- Ideas for Open Day

• Face painting
• Mud Kitchen
• Science Experiments
• Potion Station
• Dress up corner
• Treasure hunt/ scavenger hunt/hunt for bugs
• Traditional Games-Skipping, parachutes
• Using natural materials, making dens, forest school style, bug hotels
• Quest around garden- wide game stations, activity passport
• Obstacle Course/Outdoor games
• Sneaky litter picks- junk modelling, degradation info
• Smoothie Bike
• Storytelling
• Music- community groups
• Quizzes- Name the veg, flower, herb, plant etc

Plants

• Foraging- Mushroom cultivation
• Sow and take home, herbs
• Excess Plants/seedlings giveaway
• Seed Swap

Art

• Bonnet Competition
• Decorate bug mask (provide materials)
• Collaborative art projects
• Potato Printing
• Flower/Leaf Prints
• Chalk Drawing/ Transient Art
• Drawing
• Birdballs Food
• Willow Weaving
• Seed Bombs
• Flower Arranging/ Crown Wreaths
• Make a self-watering pot

Food

• Refreshments
• Cooking- Recipes (salads)
• Pizza Oven
• Cooking demo with veg from the garden
• Edible Flowers

Information

• Information about insects, bird, bugs and expert talks
• Question box for gardeners or have someone answer at the time (Gardeners Question Time/Ask the expert)
• Bee identification

Community

• Community group stalls
• Local businesses/pop up shop
• Sign up for volunteers/ information available at the time/passionate volunteers to talk to
• First steps to getting involved- small tasks to help people feel like they’re helping/included

-cutting veg etc

HOW AND WHO WOULD YOU TO ENGAGE WITH/WORK WITH FOR YOUR OPEN DAY?

Local Groups and Partners:

                Broughty Ferry in Bloom

                Bonnie Dundee

                Scrapantics

                Looseparts Play

                Music School Bands? Church Choirs?

                University Students – Abertay Sustainability Group, Newsletters, DJCAD

                Dundee Drummers (Morgan/Grove Academy)

                Hospitality – Serendipities, local cafes

                Community Centre, Youth Groups

                DVVA – Extra volunteers on the day?

                Eden Communities – Big Lunch

                Green Health Partnership

                Xplore Dundee

                Museum of Transport

People:

• People that we’ve not met, who don’t know us
  • Anyone and Everyone
  • Potential volunteers, people who will come back (not just gardening)
  • Potential partners for future projects
  • Schools and youth groups – involve them in wheelbarrow development – competition to design it?
  • Guides, Scouts, Boys Brigade etc.
  • We want people to use our spaces and enjoy them
  • Groups who can make things – e.g. Men’s Shed
  • Isolated people – new to area, don’t have connections, post COVID isolation.
  • People around the garden who are unaware of the activities going on
  • Community larders/fridges – fareshare, link with Big Lunch (prevent waste)
  • Local places we already work with
  • Faith groups
  • Faith in Community/Dundee Food Network
  • Put information in food parcels
  • B&Q, Tesco, Asda – Community engagement worker
  • Beekeeping associations
  • Dundee Instrumental Brass Band – Ailsa Mackintosh
  • Dance Charities
  • Confidence for Life (bellydance)
  • GOGA might run an event?
  • Effective Social Media
  • Hydroponics
  • Woodland Trust – Iain Moss, Meaghan Henry (outreach) – New trees, activities, advice
  • Reach out to the NERDS – Dundee Wargames Club
    • Forage for terrain materials
    • Paint scheme inspiration from nature