The Gaskell Garden Project

GGP 10 year anniversary! 20th October at Platt Fields Market Garden

Soup, fire and songs for all our members, supporters and well wishers in loving memory of James and Alex Gaskell.

If you have been involved in the project over the past decade then it would be wonderful to see everyone again, please come on down and celebrate with us x

Manchester's number 1 pay-as-you-feel meal is back for our autumn equinox harvest meal! Our crops are ready and so are we! 🫑🥕🥔🥒🍅

3 vegan courses of our home grown produce combined with supermarkets surplus waste saved from land fill by the mighty ✊️🥐✊️

🏆🏆 We will be giving away a big prize for the best dressed autumn equinoxer so come dressed in whatever you think will make us smile 🍃🍂🍁

🙌 We will performing a beautiful little blessing ceremony to bring in the Equionox 🌿

And of course we will have our usual array of DJ's, poets and more for your nightly entertainment 🎶🎵🎧

18th September 7pm at the . All food and entertainment is on a pay-as-you-feel basis and will go towards our garden activities and member led projects.

Get down early cause this is going to be a fun one!!

We are proud to be part of this fantastic event and a member of Co-operation Manchester ! Come down and find out what it is all about!

🥳🎊Join us this Sunday 30th June at Platt Fields Market Garden, 2pm - 8pm for the Launch of Co-operation Manchester!🎊🥳
A family-friendly event including live music, pay as you feel meal, campaign speakers and stalls, workshops and kids activities. Cooperation Manchester aims to increase solidarity across Manchester's progressive organisations.
Find out more here:
https://buff.ly/3VVnOYZ

Tomorrow!! Weather is looking unpredictable but we will be under shelter !

Pay as you feel meal Live music special tonight at the The Old Abbey Taphouse 7pm!

Acoustic folk to Psychedelic full bands!

Soups, curries, freshly harvested produce, surplus drinks you name it! Come on down!

Manchester's number 1 pay-as-you-feel meal is back!
15th May 7pm at the

3 courses of freshly harvested, home grown produce combined with surplus produce rescued from the supermarkets! All vegan!

3 live music acts to keep you entertained whilst you dine!

All on a pay-as-you-feel basis to raise money for the project!

Everyone welcome, no need to book!

Woooweee what a meal! Over 120 of you in attendance and over 360 courses served!

We raised around £700 for our garden and subsidised memberships for people seeking refuge to join GMTU.

We would like to say a huge thank you to the for hosting us, thank you to all our chefs and volunteers for all their hard work, DJ U-ness and for the amazing music.

A huge thank you to -operation manchester and the Food Justice Network for making such an interesting collaborative event.

And a huge thank you to everyone who came down to celebrate and eat with us.

Don't forget to message us if you want to come and join in with any of the activities you learnt about on the night.

Collectivism and co-operativism ✊️✊️✊️

Tomorrow 7pm at the ! The surplus goods are in and the crops about to harvested!

Menu (all vegan)

Wild garlic and potato soup with toasted sourdough bread

Sweet potato and chickpea curry with roast potatoes, rice and salad

Banana bread with vanilla ice cream and fresh mint.

All pay as you feel. Everyone welcome!

Lots of surplus prizes to be won!

Your chance to win a crate of surplus East London stouts and bitters, surplus fizzy drinks, surplus flowers and more! 🏆🎁🌷

Join the raffle at our pay as you feel 3 course meal on the 13th March at The Old Abbey Taphouse

Thanks to the Greater Manchester Tenants Union and the Food Justice Network for the surplus donations.✊️✊️✊️

Come on down, no need to book!

🥳 Manchester's number 1 pay-as-you-feel meal is back to celebrate the Spring Equinox!!! 🌸

13th March 7pm at The Old Abbey Taphouse

In collaboration with the Food Justice Network and the Greater Manchester Tenants Union, we will be providing 3 courses of home grown, foraged and surplus food, all vegan and all delicious! 😋

🔊 Live DJ sets from U-ness and IndustryPlant spinning the best selections of world music, local artists showcasing their finest pieces, and local grassroots projects speaking about their exciting upcoming plans!

We will be raising money for our garden so that we can produce more food for the Food Justice Network, and also for subsidised memberships for people seeking refuge to join the GM Tenants Union! ✊

It's all pay-as-you-feel and everyone is welcome 🙏 No need to book, just come on down.

In collaboration with and we have distributed 20 of our heritage apple trees across Ardwick, Harpurhey and Moss Side!

We believe that food shouldn't be sold as a commodity but it should be free for all our communities to access and grow themselves.

We hope these trees will give huge amounts of fruit for many generations to come!

If your community could benefit from a free heritage apple tree, drop us a message and ask about GGTree.

PARAKEET PATHWAY SESSION THIS SATURDAY

17th Feb 230 to 5pm welcome to anyone to come down!

Meet on Crediton Close, Hulme, M15 6EW

We will be woodchipping the orchard and making tree guards whilst planning out what trees to plant and where!

We had a great time at our new members meeting learning about permaculture design and willow weaving! If you want to join us and get learning just drop us a message here or email [email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/events/3577244622531960?ref=newsfeed

Interested in Willow weaving? have a taste of the craft on our New members gathering In February!

Limited spaces available

This week we went to help out with Birchfields Forest garden! We had a great afternoon learning how to prune and manage fruit trees and how to companion plant foresty perennials. Thank-you for having us Birchfields !

Fantastic Sunday session once again, this time our new volunteers have been transforming our Paddock Site with the aim to grow bulk crops for the Food Justice Network. Getting those beds mulched ready for potatoes, squashes, corn and beans 😋

Fantastic day gardening in the winter sun! New members did a fantastic job of the beds and paths! Send us a message if you would like to join for 2024 :)

We are open today for our volunteer garden sessions, every Sunday at 12 midday! Plattfields Market garden by the Frog House, come along, no experience needed :)

Merry Christmas, Happy Yule, Happy Hannuka, Happy Kwanzaa or whatever you like to celebrate!

Stay tuned for some exciting updates in the new year, in the meantime, keep yourselves warm and dry.

Next gardening session will be Sunday 7th January where we will be progressing our soft fruit patch! Send us a message if you would like to join in and learn some permaculture techniques!

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Dear comrades and friends

The Red Roots Collective, in collaboration with Gaskell Garden Project, are preparing to commemorate the transnational struggle of revolutionary socialists and feminists against the religious dictatorship in Iran.

One of the main projects is to create a mural of Jina Amini on the wall of Niamos Center in Hulme, Manchester. This is so that people of our communities will remember the symbol of "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran.

To organise this project of solidarity we need to raise a minimum of £1500. All of which will go towards the painting of the mural, food, venue hire and most importantly paying artists and poc muscians from minority backgrounds who are invited to perform at our event on the 24th of September.

Please show your solidarity by supporting this project which will have a long-lasting effect on communities involved!

Iran Solidarity Campaign Murder of Jina (Mahsa) Amini, on 16th of September 2022, by the so-called morality police in Iran sparked waves of protests, not only inside Iran, but also around the globe. The slogan “woman, life, freedom” turned into a global expression for the progressive movement led by those who fi

We're back at The Old Abbey TaphouseThe Old Abbey Taphouse, collaborating with the Red Roots Collective, putting on an art auction and pay as you feel meal with live music! This ones a fundraiser, all money raised will go to commission a local muralist to paint a portrait of Jina Amini on the Niamos centre in Hulme. We want to carve the image of Jina to commemorate a year of struggle and resistance in Iran.

We'll have a short talk from Red Roots Collective on the Woman*, Life, Freedom movement and women's on going resistance in Iran.

We will be auctioning artwork from local artists with live music from No Rest for the Surfers!

Would be great to have your support and you can grab some beautiful art and good grub in the process!
Hope to see you there 🙂
x

https://facebook.com/events/s/art-auction-and-pay-as-you-fee/1214523679224948/

Wednesday 26th April 7pm-9pm The Old Abbey Taphouse
Come on down to meet the crew!! learn what upcoming projects we have for the summer and how to get involved!
You can submit proposals for the organisation and project to the email:

[email protected]

On Sunday 5th March we are collaborating with .roots.collective to put on an event at the Niamos in solidarity with the Woman* Life Freedom uprising in Iran. Expect Iranian food, poetry, music, discussion and togetherness.

It’s pay-as-you-feel of course! If you would like to take part in the meal please register for a FREE ticket on eventbrite so we have an idea of how many we’re cooking for (link in bio). There are a limited number of tickets for the meal but if you don’t manage to get one do still come along to the event for all the other things we have in store, maybe you can scrounge some leftovers

Hope to see you there