The Garden

08/09/2022

I listen.. but not many people do.

The value of listening to tree sounds and how they can be identified by their sounds.

01/04/2022

Have you got your tickets yet?

13/11/2021

And sometimes we have to return to our back gardens and balconies, and that’s OK. .

https://dig.thegardenzine.co.uk/post/666649471904514048/georgia-kelly-at-home-in-spon-end-coventry-i

Georgia Kelly, at home in Spon End, Coventry. “I was very sad to give up my plot, especially because to have access to such a massive green space that’s yours, is really rare. I kept trying to do...

02/11/2021

Everything is noise,... https://soundcloud.com/user-673140953/noise-1

Listen to The Garden Solstice | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

27/10/2021

Interesting statistics from the the last 7 days on the soundcloud page,. have a listen yourself,. https://thegardenzine.co.uk/The-Avian-Garden

14/10/2021

This is so wonderful. If you live in Coventry do try and get involved Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

09/10/2021

Here’s short clip from a documentary that The Pod - Coventry with Food Union commissioned in 2016. We are thrilled that the full length documentary has just won first prize at this years Big Picture Festival. Congratulations to Short Night Films. We have such fond memories of the making of this film. Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. We will post the full documentary on our Food Union page.

03/10/2021

Just wonderful.

12/08/2021

Have a play with some sounds inspired by birds in flight,. https://thegardenzine.co.uk/The-Avian-Garden

21/06/2021

To mark summer solstice we are launching the archive of underGROWTH which has been created by Alix Villanueva as part of the Garden Zine. We are also releasing two limited edition publications made a part of the project.

‘underGROWTH is a series of eco-art inter[actions] that create a unique platform for people to consider, confront & articulate issues relating to the environment: the air we breathe, the city we move through, the trees that line our streets, the w**ds that breakthrough the paving slabs, the River Sherbourne as it runs through and beneath the city, the food we eat, & ultimately our human responses’

A huge thank you to co-curators Lauren Sheerman and George Ttoouli and to Food Union coordinators Marc Hammond and Greg Muldoon for the investment you each made in this project and as importantly to all the artists, activists and scientists we commissioned or who offered us advice during the projects life, we hope this archive ensures your work can be revisited, explored and enjoyed by wider audience. Tap into the seasonal segment to see the work created.

underGROWTH was supported by funds from Heart of England Community Foundation and DIALOGUE

Wishing us all a

https://thegardenzine.co.uk/UnderGROWTH-Archive

Food Union Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 Alix Villanueva Lauren Jane Sheerman Mothers Who Make - Coventry Hub Chris Maughan

16/06/2021

NEWSFLASH : JOB ALERT:

Job Role: Development Worker:Social Advocacy

Excited to announce that we are currently looking to recruit to a permanent core funded 30 hour post and a brand new full time fixed term (12 months) post as part of funds awarded to The Pod by ‘NHS Charities Together’

Sitting within Coventry City Council Adult Social Care and significantly funded by the Clinical Commissioning Group The Pod, is an award winning secondary mental health social brokerage and cultural hub which represents a new progressive & values driven approach within local authority adult social care, one that focuses on critical connections and a shift from service user/patient to citizenship and agency.

‘What THE POD do is innovative, radical and socially engaged’ - NHS England

The Pod team are committed to working in ways that are rights based, collaborative, creative, dynamic and personalised. The Pod have asserted National influence through work with TLAP, Public Health England, National Development Team For Social Inclusion In Mental Health, Local Government Association and presenting to the Health and Social Care Committee in Parliament. We aim to secure fast, firm and sustainable outcomes.

‘[The Pod] challenges national assumptions around what and how social care can deliver’ (TLAP)

Details can be found here:

https://careers.coventry.gov.uk/jobs/job/Development-WorkerSocial-Advocacy/2212

Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 photo credit Marcin Sz

13/06/2021

Don't forget this is still alive... Here is a project I created last year and it is still up and running,... Please make a few clicks on the audio links and build a ambient version of sounds for yourself,.. use multiples or single sounds. If you click on the feather at the top left of the page it will explain how the recordinbgs and music were created.

https://thegardenzine.co.uk/The-Avian-Garden

29/05/2021

Here is another creation of sonic play for your ears. Many thanks to Historic Coventry for getting me involved.

Historic Coventry Trust aim's to bring new life to the city’s heritage, finding innovative ways to sustain historic places and to inspire, involve and connect people with the city’s history.

08/05/2021

03/05/2021

Thanks to Sarah Red for these pictures of the mistle thrush nesting in my garden.

25/04/2021

Share your passion for birds, wildlife & all things nature with the RSPB Community. Show off your images, experiences and read the RSPB’s blogs! Join the community here

08/04/2021

The song thrush is back in our gardens, I heard and saw it today.

A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers are declining seriously, especially on farmland making it a Red List species. Find out more

08/04/2021

Our friend and collaborator Dr Chris Maughan has created this fantastic video to enable us to test our own soil without the use of specific equipment or chemicals.

If you feel inclined to take the test yourself, lay out a fist sized soil sample to dry for 24 hours before watching the video. Please remember to record your results in the spreadsheet attached to the description of the video in youtube. It will help us build a map of soil quality!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0VzSV_voYI

This video is a demonstration of a soil test called a 'slake test'. This test is design to assess the stability of soil aggregates underwater.***To skip stra...

03/04/2021

And this was so wonderful. They were the last musicians to play live at Food Union on a really cold evening and then The Pod organised this with Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 for Solstice. The gig marked the end of our Solstice celebrations and saw the launch of the Garden Zine website. We must send at Bird in the Belly a copy of the Zine! Here’s the YouTube link to the gig. https://youtu.be/dat6Xl4Hw8E

21/03/2021

The role that forests play in our imaginations and how they reflect our inner wildness

18/03/2021

Too true...

The striking similarities between tree rings and a human fingerprint show we aren't so different after all 🌲

Via Greenpeace International

08/03/2021

Jeanne Simmons
https://www.instagram.com/jeanneksimmons/

04/03/2021

🐝 Be a bee spotter - here are some to see in March . . . 🐝

02/03/2021

New measures of success needed to avoid catastrophic breakdown, landmark review finds

22/02/2021

Nothing is just a w**d. A w**d is such a derogatory term for a plant species.

19/02/2021

How did all this start?

Local action alone can’t fix the Tories’ broken planning system. We need a national fightback, says Ros Coward of Roehampton University