Colindale Community Garden

A late goji berry at the #communityplot in #HeybournePark! #GrahamePark #Communitygardening 🪴🌍🌳

If you didn’t realize earwigs have wings, or you haven’t seen them unfold and flap in super slow motion: please enjoy this next 38sec of your life

⚠️ Welsh Harp Environmental Education Centre is under threat from closure 🙏🏼 Met with groups this morning hoping to rescue it 🌿Connecting ppl to nature is so important in fighting climate & ecological emergency 📚 We NEED environmental education centres for children & adults

A big thank you @BarnetCouncil for covering 50% of #Finchley N3, N12 Pollinator Cafe project via #CrowdfundBarnet @Spacehive campaign. Here's a video showing the activities: youtu.be/0mkAletyKFw special thanks @EnergyGardenLDN @hollypringle Alison Sharpe & Deena J Kestenbaum

A very useful online resource: Database of Insects and their Food Plants dbif.brc.ac.uk

Grahame Park Gift Swap Shop, please donate your unwanted gifts and toys to support our residents with the cost of living this festive season @Community_TBG @Young_Barnet @NHGhousing @ColindaleGarden @NCRA_NW9 @BoostBarnet @HomeStartBarnet @BarnetPost @WatesGroup @AdHocGuardian

*Airpunch* Another BIG day for our two-year @CoolOakGroup eco-campaign to improve Brent Reservoir (Welsh Harp). Installation of 4 new planted nesting islands for the locally-threatened Great Crested Grebe. Props to @CRTSouthEast and @BiomatrixWater 👊🌿 🦢

We’re raising money for two exciting projects at the Welsh Harp! If you can spare a couple of quid it would be much appreciated 🌱☺️ justgiving.com/crowdfunding/f…

@BarnetWft @ColindaleFB @BFCSA1926 @BarnetFC @middxfa @LondonSport @BarnetHomes @BoostBarnet @HWBarnet @anne_clarke @InclusionBarnet @HiveTrust Thanks so much as always for your support 🌱🌻🌼🌷⚘️🕷🦗🐞🐛🦋

The Barnet Walking Football Team community garden group proudly supporting the amazing Daniella @ColindaleGarden @ColindaleFB with our monthly visit planting sowing tidying repairing & lunching. The Neapolitan long squash grown from Italian seed .. amazing

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth and there’s a range of fantastic events and activities in Barnet to celebrate! This week don’t miss “Out of the Many, One People” free community event in celebration of African culture at Grahame Park and more! engage.barnet.gov.uk/black-history-… #BHM #BHM2022

@BarnetWft @BarnetFC @BFCSA1926 @HiveTrust @BarnetHomes @LondonSport @middxfa @InclusionBarnet @HWBarnet @EnglandFootball Many happy returns 🎂 you're the best 🤗🌻

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY TO The Barnet Walking Football Team Over 100 players enjoy inclusive walking football at The Hive our community projects have seen us gain FA Accreditation status &FA grassroots project of the year Plus many other awards Thanks to everyone for your support .

Wonderful to see @BarnetCouncil employees so engaged with sustainability issues at today’s Eco Show and Tell, which was part of the council’s Staff Well-being Day. We discussed community energy; food growing; reducing #plastic, eco-parenting and more 🌎💚

Starting work on our Welsh Harp bee garden this Sunday 🐝🪵 Buzz by and help out! Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/conservation…

The Barnet Walking Football Team @HiveTrust @BarnetFC spent the day at the Colindale Community Garden and @ColindaleFB with the amazing Daniella,sorting Apples,mulching weeding planting ,picking Tomatoes & chillies for local food banks 🙏🏼 join us by emailing BarnetWft@yahoo.com

Thank you so much Deena J Kestenbaum & Holly Pringle for your fantastic presentation about #pollinators-friendly BULBS. You can watch the training here: youtu.be/eH3mR3bf41k .Don't wait too long, plant bulbs in Sep and Oct for optimum results! @pollinatorproj @eftownteam

This hummingbird hawk moth was floundering in the polytunnel yesterday. Caught it (later released). It was great to see one at rest and show it off to one of our young gardeners, Ayoub, 10, who has since done this excellent research project - watch out @rlewington2

Join us on Saturday at The Old Library, The Concourse, Grahame Park, NW9 5XA at 11am for a Circus Skills Workshop. For families with children aged 4-11 years. Free! #CreativeCommunities barnet.gov.uk/creative-commu… @NCRA_NW9 @ColindaleFB @ColindaleGarden @BarnetHomes

Great to see Wendy from @IncEdibleBarnet planting up the new planters on West Hendon Broadway today. Wendy arrived early this morning so she could plant before (and after) the @welshharpies litter pick. What a Barnet hero!

FREE Circus Skills Workshop & Show at Grahame Park Old Library. No need to book - just turn up @NCRA_NW9 @BarnetLibraries @BarnetHomes @GPEResidents @ColindaleGarden @AidColindale @HomeStartBarnet @FUSEC_I_C