Townend Community Garden
Phone: 07720035194
Address: Market Street,
Chapel en le Frith
High Peak
SK23 0HZ
Chapel en le Frith
High Peak
SK23 0HZ
We are a fully set up community garden, with a variety of growing areas and wildlife habitats. Our mission is to provide a safe, healthy outdoor environment where local residents can meet to grow flowers and crops, or just sit and enjoy the outdoors and tranquillity. We support adults with mental health issues, physical or learning disabilities and older lonely, isolated people. Our garden is fully accessible for people with disabilities.
We aim to work in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way. We garden organically as far as possible, using different techniques in the vegetable beds - no-dig, companion planting and four-crop rotation. We keep abreast of good practice, for instance we use peat-free compost and we have researched different brands to find ones we are happy with. We make our own compost and we collect horse manure from a nearby farm, in order to ensure healthy soil and crops. We have no water on tap, so we use rainwater collected on site.
We aim to work in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way. We garden organically as far as possible, using different techniques in the vegetable beds - no-dig, companion planting and four-crop rotation. We keep abreast of good practice, for instance we use peat-free compost and we have researched different brands to find ones we are happy with. We make our own compost and we collect horse manure from a nearby farm, in order to ensure healthy soil and crops. We have no water on tap, so we use rainwater collected on site.
Facilities: Volunteering, Community space for hire, Picnic area, Wildlife area
Open to the public?: Yes
Opening hours:
Accessible?: Yes
Has livestock?: No
Details of livestock and rare breeds kept:
Directions: Park in church car park, walk up the side of the church past the graveyard.