News
WFAS will have a garden at the Southport Show on 19th - 22nd August. We would be very grateful for the offer of plants for the garden Click here for an online form or download the plant list or telephone Roger Merry on 608 1055See Events page for details of shows, allotment visits and gardening courses, including:
8th August - Harris Open Day
15th August - Wirral Flower and Veg Show
19th - 22nd August - Southport Show
Spring/Summer courses at Ness Gardens, including:
Gardening in Containers
Herbs and Plant Medicine
Soils, Composting and Mulching
Wildlife Gardening
Next meeting
- Friday 29th October 2010, 7.30pmSt Stephens Parish Hall,
Prenton Lane
Agenda will be available here 10 days before the meeting
Federation Grant
Allotment Societies can now apply for a small grant from the Federation. For more details download the application formHelp wanted
Primary School in Wallasey, is looking for a volunteer to help with the school gardening club - a mature gardening enthusiast who's good with children, to lend a hand at lunchtime for half an hour. Tel 638 5406 either around 8.30am or after 3.30pm. If anyone would like to share their love of gardening with the next generation, please get in touch.Contact us
Please contact the Federation Secretary by emailing wfas.sec@gmail.com
Your comments or queries will be taken to the next avalable meeting of the Committee.
Do you enjoy gardening?
Do you like fresh fruit and vegetables?
Would you like to grow your own?
If the answer is "Yes" to any of the above questions, then we may have an ideal opportunity to satisfy your wishes.
The image of allotments have changed over the last decade and there are many more women and families on sites than with the previous generations.
Wirral Borough Council still has plots available and although some sites have a waiting list, if you are willing to consider alternative sites, you should be able to take up a tenancy fairly quickly. It may even be possible to have a half plot.
The cost of a tenancy for a plot is £28 per annum for 2008 with reductions for those on benefit or over 60.
So for a rewarding pastime and an improvement in the quality of your life, why not visit a site and speak to the site secretary. They have a great bank of knowledge and can point you in the right direction.
The benefits of allotments
• Satisfaction at growing your own veg.
• Stress relief and relaxation
• It can improve your strength
• It can improve your general fitness
• It can increase energy levels
• It can help you feel good in body and mind
• It can help weight control
• It can help you make new friends
• It develops creativeness in making a new garden
• Fruit and veg. avoid huge transport costs
• Very good for the environment
• Encouragement of wildlife
• Food is chemical and additive free
• You eat better at less cost
• Healthy fresh air
• Cheaper than the gym
• Food tastes so much better
• Most of all it is Good Fun
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