Announcing the fifth Big Buzz
Hello everyone, We just wanted to announce the next Big Buzz event for the bees takes place on May 23, from 12-4. Expect an entertainer, stalls, wonderful vegan food, face painting, pot a plant to take home with you and more. Final details will be announced closer to the time. We need plenty of help…
Winter Workshop: Fruit Tree Care at Wray Crescent, Feb 28, noon
You will learn about how and when to prune the different trees, and help give them a nice bit of mulching to help them flourish this summer.
Community Bulb Planting Day in Wray Crescent Park
Working with Islington’s parks team we’ve arranged to host a bulb-planting day in Wray Crescent Park when we hope to plant hundreds of bulbs to set the park ablaze with colour next spring. We’re inviting the whole neighbourhood to come and join us in planting bulbs in the park from midday on Saturday, November 1.…
Join the Orchard Project Tree Care Workshop – August 18, 4pm
UPDATE: Date is now August 18 Please join us for a hastily rearranged and last minute fruit tree pruning session with the Orchard Project, who will visit the park to take a look at our trees, tell us how they are doing, and run an interesting session on orchard care and pruning. Their visit is…
Thank you from Wray Crescent Festival
Thank you We wanted to thank you all for coming to the third Wray Crescent Festival. We hope you had a nice time and look forward to returning again on July 25 next year. We also wanted to thank everyone who made the event possible, which would never have happened without the help of dozens…
Thanks for coming along to the bee festival
Hi everyone, we wanted to take a moment to thank everyone involved in the Big Buzz event. We hope you had a nice time, and if you have ideas for what you could do to make the show even better next year, please let us know what you’d like to do and we can begin…
How this innovative company is helping your local parks (and how you can help)
With our small bee-focused special event in Wray Crescent coming up tomorrow, we wanted to talk about another essential element to the growing cycle. If you’ve visited any of the local parks then the plants and flowers you see growing there owe a big debt, not just to local volunteers who are keeping these spaces…
Celebrate Bees at the Big Buzz party, May 24
We’ll be holding our annual Big Buzz event celebrating World Bee Day on May 24 – that’s this coming Saturday. The party begins at 12 noon and ends at 4pm. What to expect The big attraction is a kid’s magic show at 2:30pm, with Nutty Magic Ravioli. His shows are great fun and very lively from…
Free ‘Grow Veg’ workshops for kids
In homage to the life’s work of the community garden’s inspiration, local resident and teacher, Yvonne Conolly OBE, the Friends of Wray Crescent is proud to announce the Children’s ‘Grow Veg’ Workshop, a series of summer educational workshops for young people aged six to twelve years of age, starting May 10. What the workshops will teach The…
Join us for the final Orchard Project session (and celebration)
Join the Friends of Wray Crescent and the Orchard Project on March 22 for the last of event of the series. Hot food will be provided during the day to celebrate the end of the project, and the event should be fun for gardeners, tree-lovers, and nature-minded kids. What’s happening? Last year, the group teamed up with…