26 February 2024

Gardening and green spaces: Sustainability and improving your mental health

Do you like maintaining growing spaces, planting or improving your social spaces? The Sustainability Team have set up regular Gardening groups for both students and colleagues and would love for you to get involved.

We're looking for students to sign up for the below sessions to ensure these growing spaces are maintained and enjoyed by our community.

Where are these spaces?

Westminster has various growing spaces, planters and plants such as our rosemary, beans, and passionflower vines at our Marylebone, Harrow, and Cavendish campuses. These spaces are there for you to use in your own time.

Marylebone is also home to the Green Wall, which is currently maintained by students from ArCCAT and New Cavendish is also used by the Cavendish Living Lab group.

Events programme

Join us for the following activities across the campuses this Spring:

Marylebone

19 March, 2-3pm - Propagation workshop led by Alice from Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) (propagation of houseplant and mint cuttings)

16 April, 3-4pm - Seed sowing session led by Alice from Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)

  • Use of planters and pots.
  • Create labels for the plants.
  • Take cuttings from the rosemary bush. 

7 May - Sow seeds for flowering plants.

 

Harrow

26 March - Propagation workshop (propagation of houseplant and mint cuttings)

23 April - Seed sowing session: use of planters and creating labels for the plants.

9 May - Sow seeds for flowering plants. 
 

How to book your place

Please email [email protected] if you would like to get involved. Our events are drop-in sessions but please let us know if you would like to attend so we can plan resources accordingly.

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