๐ฉโWhile it is cold outside, we are celebrating the warmth of some amazing women today who help run Roots4Life!
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๐And a shout out to our local ward councillors @laurendingsdale and Pat Greenwell who support and help out locally.
#InternationalWomensDay#Roots4Life
@charlesdowding @raymond_blanc Our favourite vegetable growing expert with one of our favourite chefs! Only good things can come out of this ๐๐๐
@steffiec91@Commoninsense@Englishomestead @bakeliteguy Happy to run one and a plant swop too. Just hoping for a weather change as still a little cold! Keep an eye on our website for further details.
@Commoninsense@steffiec91@Englishomestead @bakeliteguy We have plenty of seeds to share and care ๐. We are just waiting for the weather to improve before encouraging people to plant out. We are also growing lots of chilli's, tomatoes etc in our polytunnel to share with the local community.
@steffiec91@Englishomestead @bakeliteguy Was reading about a โcommunity seed boxโ recently, the idea is still rolling around in my head. Need to talk to C.A.N.E. ( Community Association of New Eltham). Possibly a permanent seed box โ Give and Takeโ The other possible place is @ROOTS4LIFE on Footscray Road.
@JHCal1@HarrietLamb_@WRAP_UK Roots4Life absolutely agrees but we would add food growing to the list. Did you know a home grown potato will last 6 months in dark storage ๐๐ฅ
Community activities, like gardening, can have a profound positive impact on our health and wellbeing. The @Roots4Life project is a great example of that.
#SocialPrescribingDay
Funded by Greenwich Community Champions and now Natural England these weekly sessions offer varied sessions on growing vegetables and green meditation and therapy and make our Mondays ๐
On a cold dreary February Monday last year local ward councillor Pat Greenwall came to visit
On discussing how hard Mondays felt in winter, the inspiration for Green Mondays was born. A drop-in session for adults who might be lonely, isolating due to ill-health. 2/3
๐ Today is #SocialPrescribingDay
Roots4Life were super thrilled when @NaturalEngland@NASPTweets came to visit a few weeks ago to film our green social prescribing project Green Mondays. 1/2
#SocialPrescribingDay is 9th March & we want you to get involved & make some noise. If you take part in a community activity, club, etc. then plan an event on the day & celebrate the benefits of #SocialPrescribing.
Grab the toolkit ๐ https://t.co/bTNv2aEt5y
๐ ๐ Sound On ๐
@VCGreenwich@Royal_Greenwich@befriendingnet What a line up! Our amazing Green Monday team. Not a blue Monday to be had. You can find out more about Green Mondays on our website or come along every Monday term time at 11 am until 12.30.
https://t.co/DUbPUKktNk
@xlplondon@JPFoundation VJ is a natural. We shall watch his culinary prowess with interest and maybe one day he will be helping with our Community Meals. Or running them! ๐๐ฎ