Green Spaces
Project of the Month
June
2002 - The Small
Heath
Park Community Garden. Birmingham
Contact: Irene Iwegbu
0121 328 3400 www.csvenvironment.org.uk
The Small Heath Park Community Garden
in Birmingham is part of the Concrete and
Coriander project, and works with
residents, especially Asian women, from
inner city Birmingham to bring derelict
and unused gardens back into productive
or recreational use.
As you enter the front gates of the
Park you will find the entrance to the
garden on your right. The women who work
the garden meet on Monday at 10am
whatever the weather.
This is not a beautifully planted
garden, but a well worked and loved piece
of land. It is more of an allotment which
the 25 members plant for their pleasure
and their own consumption. The aim of the
project is to enable members of the
Bangladesh community to engage with the
environment. If you look closer into the
project you will discover the far
reaching benefits not only to the women
but also to the community. The project
touches and changes the everyday lives of
these women.
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