Free course! Ever wanted to learn traditional scything techniques? There will be plenty of opportunities to get hands on experience on our wildflower meadow at Saffron Heath during this course as part of the Saving Saffron Brook Project! 🌱 Booking via scythingcourse.eventbrite.co.uk

Join us on Saffron Heath this Saturday for FREE family-friendly fun at our Apple Day & Autumn Wildlife Event! 🍏🍎We have fun nature walks and activities, fruit picking, apple pressing and MUCH more! Please bring suitable containers if you would like to take apple juice home! 🌱

Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Autumn Wildlife & Apple Day on Saffron Heath and to the #SavingSaffronBrook team, & @TCVleicester ! We had a great day - we hope you did too! 🌱 🍎🍏

Join us on Friday 21st October for our SPOOKY SAFFRON event! 🎃 Come along to our free halloween celebration down at Saffron Heath, Heathcott Rd, 10am-1pm for fun, affordable, and educational arts and crafts activities, spooky soup, tractor photoshoot and MORE! See you there!

We have a few places left for fruit tree pruning & orchard maintenance workshops! No previous experience needed & refreshments provided! To book or for more information please see the contact details on the poster 🌱🍎🍐🍏

We had so much fun taking part in the #RHSBigSeedSow! Thanks to everyone who came along, you've helped us get our plants off to a great start! Ilet us know if you find a giant at the top of your beanstalks!!! 52 of you took part with us - here is a peek at the first few photos!

We've been taking part in the Great British Spring Clean #greatbritishspringclean #greatbritishspringclean2023 at Saffron Acres & Saffron Heath with over 50 volunteers cleaning up! 🚯The sites now look super tidy ready for all the veg, flowers & wildlife to flourish 🦔🌱🐌🌿🦊

Excited we have 5 more years funding from The National Lottery Community Fund & we're completing our latest tree planting events for the The Queen's Green Canopy 🌳So many people have taken part - including Ben Jackson! BBC Leicester (39 mins in) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… #nationallotterycommunityfund #queensgreencanopy

Thank you to Ben Jackson who helped plant a tree with us! Lots of people have planted trees over the past year as part of The Queen's Green Canopy - stay tuned for mini updates as we sift through all the photos! 🌳 #QueensGreenCanopy #BBCradioleicester #SaffronAcres #SaffronHeath

We had so much fun with #GoodToGrow2023! 63 people took part -school & college groups & our volunteers, harvesting crops, planting up polytunnels, chatting to a farmer & meeting some minority breed Ryeland lambs! Thank you to our local farmer for supporting us! 🥕🌻🐑

Not our Ewe-sual suspects! Thank you 👮‍♂️ PCSO Spencer & 👮‍♂️ PCSO Sam for supporting our mini events! No pulling the wool over their eyes! 🐑

Cllr Ted Cassidy has been involved with our charity in various forms for a long time, and recently planted a tree with us as part of the Queen's Green Canopy! 🌳 The support of local councillors means a lot to us and our volunteers. Thank you! #QueensGreenCanopy #SaffronAcres

A great big Thank you to GoodGym Leicester ! 🌱

Thanks to everyone who took part in Hedgehog Awareness Week with us recently! We will let you know if any spiky guests check into the Hedgehog Hotels! 🦔 #HedgehogWeek #HAW23

Throwback Thursday! Thank you to Dave Andrews who planted a tree earlier this year as part of the Queen's Green Canopy ! Dave has supported us in lots of ways, from judging Natural Artwork competitions to being a big part of our Queen's Award for Voluntary Service - thank you!

A big Thank You to Vegware for supporting us once again this year, providing fully compostable cutlery, cups & other products - including the plant-based cups repurposed recently as mini greenhouses for our salad-in-a-cup activity! 🌱

Come and join us for chats over light gardening activities, socialise with our Buddy Team, Sunshine Group or Muddy Shoe Crew, or even join our quieter, dedicated Grow Slow sessions. Drop us an email on [email protected] for more info! 🌱

These volunteers always work so hard! Thank you! 😊🌱 GoodGym Leicester

We are looking forward to seeing all the fab things Insecta Collective get up to! They have a huge programme of activities planned - some will be at Saffron Heath ! 😀🌱 Please see details on the poster for more info and book directly with Insecta Collective (website on poster!)

We're really looking forward to the Big Cook Little Cook programme starting on Saffron Heath today! 👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳👨‍🍳 Lettuce begin! It will be a bit of a squash - there's not mushroom for anyone else as it's now fully booked! 🥬🎃🍄😆