THIS CITY IS A GARDEN
Plant Co-operative CIC is a multi award-winning not-for-profit urban gardening collective formed in the spring of 2021.
We specialise in tending often neglected urban city centre spaces, working alongside city developers, the city council and local organisations to transform and manage pockets of wilder space, and create the opportunity to bring the community together through gardening.
We showcase the benefits that can be shared by all by taking a different approach – increasing biodiversity, improving social connection and mental health, and ultimately creating a city of gardeners.
Want to get involved?
Gardens don’t require maintenance, they require gardening.
Our team of skilled gardeners work alongside residents and volunteers to foster hands-on gardening that connects people to nature and creates a unique sense of place.
We seek to involve the community in all aspects of the garden and adapt our planting style and methods to function alongside engagement and community gardening, presenting a vision of what the future of our cities could look like.
Interested in working together?
We’d love to hear from you - hello@plantmcr.co.uk
How can we make our towns & cities greener?
In collaboration with Cloud Gardener UK, Plant designed an immersive communal area for the RHS Urban Show 2024 that served as a blueprint for how city developers can implement a community garden as part of plans for new and existing developments.
Encouraging developers to move away from lacklustre planting and traditional maintenance contracts in this way provides opportunities to bring people together through gardening and helps strengthen communities, improves mental health and provides new habitats for urban wildlife.
Our garden at the RHS Urban Show 2024 was created for and with the community, offering a deeper connection to green space. After the show the garden was relocated to our local primary school.
You can learn more about the project, and the inspiration behind the garden, through this short documentary.
Unfiltered thoughts from our ideas compost.
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See where we work across the city.
We work with some brilliant people.
