THis city is a garden
Plant Co-operative CIC is a 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, local organisations and charities 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? Check out the What’s On section below or head to our Volunteering Page for more information.
WHAT’S ON
WILDLIFE GARDENING SESSIONS
Every Wednesday evening between April - October
Escape to the city and discover the urban wildlife living right under our noses. Join us every Wednesday evening between 6-8pm as we peer a little closer at the world of our city’s non-human residents, the challenges they face, and what we, as city dwelling gardeners, can be doing to help.
HULME STREET PLANTERS VOLUNTEERING
Saturday 28th September, 1 - 3pm
The Hulme Street planters we transformed earlier in the year are looking fantastic coming to the end of their first summer, but there's plenty still to do to get them prepared ready for the winter. Join the Plant gardeners for a Saturday afternoon of cutting back, bulb planting, mulching and general upkeep.
RHS URBAN SHOW 2024
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 in the city and presenting a vision of what the future of our cities could look like.
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 the short documentary below.
Unfiltered thoughts from our ideas compost.
MAP
See where we work across the city.
We work with some brilliant people.
