The benefits of gardening include reducing depression and anxiety, promoting recovery from stress, and helping people to develop social relationships. Gardening can offer these benefits by providing a distraction from everyday stresses and demands, by immersing people in nature, promoting physical activity, encouraging social interactions, and providing a sense of purpose and meaning.
We love growing vegetables and do so in abundance at our two allotment sites in Aldershot and Cove. We alternate between the Aldershot or Cove Green Allotments meeting there on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon from 13:00-15:30 to look after our precious growing spaces.
We have supplied local food banks with all our excess produce.
Thursday 10:00-12:30 and 13:00-15:30 we do garden tidy-ups in various gardens in the community.
In the morning we generally look after several public gardens in Rushmoor, and in the afternoon we focus on giving back to the community by tidying up private gardens for people who are no longer able to do so themselves.
This involves more strenuous garden work such as cutting back overgrown greenery, strimming, mowing and general clearing.
If you need help tending to a garden, send a request using this form: Garden Tidy-up Form This service is for Rushmoor residents only.
We are all learning new skills together as we go along. There is always opportunity to attend workshops and improve our individual gardening knowledge, as well as learn new transferable skills.
We always make time to have lots of fun, going on outings to Wisley and other gardens, fundraising and taking part in community events.
For further information, please email bloomingmarvellous@rvs.org.uk