First early potatoes are in! March 17, 2023

After all the snowfall and blizzards last week, it’s been great to get back outside to garden. The mild weather has been beautiful for gardening in. Our fab volunteers have been doing a terrific job all week – here’s a few highlights.

The Plant Sales area and the Pavilion Garden have been given a good spruce up and up in our vegetable beds we’ve been planting first early seed potatoes, Casablanca. Our therapeutic horticulturalist Jacky showed us how to plant these in the trench – won’t be long before we’re harvesting some tasty treats.



Come and be a rotter – Compost Week March 13, 2023

It’s British Science Week and Compost Week and here at Martineau Gardens we are very excited to have The Compost Connection CIC running two brilliant compost workshops for us. Our volunteers are joining

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Building works update March 10, 2023

Pictured here is the Mollie Martineau building (where the volunteers’ base and offices were).

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Martineau Gardens is closed due to snow March 10, 2023

The gardens are looking beautiful in the snow, but due to poor weather conditions, we are closed today and tomorrow (Friday 10 – Saturday 11 March). Keep an eye here and on social media for updates.

Here’s a little glimpse of the gardens, blanketed in snow.

May be an image of tree, snow and nature



Work for us! March 3, 2023

Just in case you haven’t spotted this, we are recruiting for a Therapeutic Horticulture lead.

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Martineau Gardens in January January 20, 2023

Despite the cold weather, our brilliant volunteers have been turning up and doing their bit to look after Martineau Gardens – compost has been turned, tools cleaned and ordered, winter prunings dealt with, bird feeders topped up. There’s plenty to do and the icing on the cake is sharing a tea break in the January sun or around the fire.



LoveBrum – Thankyou! December 7, 2022

We’ve had some great news, we’ve been awarded funding via LoveBrum to run our Wellbeing Martineau Mondays again in 2023 – thank you for voting for us! Watch our social media channels and our website for more news soon.🌳 What a great start to 2023🌳#therapeutic#communitygardens#wellbeing

We were one of three charities nominated for LoveBrum’s December causes. Here’s Jenni Fryer (Martineau Gardens CEO) explaining the benefits of the £2,000 funding, if successful in this, the people’s vote.

Martineau Mondays

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Wed 7 December – Our next craft market! December 7, 2022

Come and visit us at the Scrapstore Christmas Craft Market between 10am and 3pm over at Squab Storage, 101 Hollymoor Way, Rubery B31 5HE on Wed 7 December. All proceeds help to support the work of Martineau Gardens, so be sure to pop along for jams, honey, plants (including our beautiful succulents in terracotta pots) and our Made at Martineau craft gifts. Entry is free.

Support your local makers and join in the festive cheer!

Big thanks to all our volunteers for doing a terrific job in creating all the wares we’re bringing to the market.



Thank you Stewart … December 2, 2022

Thank you Stewart Holmes for over 20 years contribution to Martineau Gardens. In his time with us, Stewart has touched so many people, bringing his warmth and friendliness, and spreading his passion for gardening. He’s been such an important part of creating this space – and we wish him all the best. We had a goodbye party around the fire, with staff and volunteers from across the years and in true Martineau spirit, a bring and share feast which we enjoyed together.



We’ve been funded! December 2, 2022

Our focus here at Martineau Gardens is to bring people together in this beautiful space, in a way that is welcoming, safe and inclusive and benefits their physical and mental health. We are delighted to have received a £10,000 grant from the Wesleyan Foundation via the Heart of England Community Foundation to enable us to continue to provide this.

Find out more about how we do this by watching our film. Made this time last year, volunteers and staff share their experiences of therapeutic horticulture and the value of working together in a natural environment.

“Food for the stomach, food for the soul”