Congrats to Bionic and Wires for their first ever gig (a world first!?) with plants playing real life instruments. youtu.be/kmx76AjpqEg?si…

This Technology Lets Plants Play Live Music With Bionic Arms edm.com/gear-tech/plan…

Our sky pond is starting to get into its stride this spring. Get down to ⁦Castlefield Viaduct⁩ to see it and find out about ⁦InOurNatureMCR⁩. Info about visiting here: nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire…

Our Ground to Grow project will save 3 tonnes of spent coffee grounds from going to landfill, as we re-purpose them to cultivate mushrooms. We have big plans to scale up, over the next few months. Get in touch if you’d like to get involved! #circulareconomy #sustainablefood.

Want to bring nature to the heart of the city? This is the green roof we designed and built at our HQ in Moss Side BoilerHouse. Perennial wildflowers, physic garden, pond and v nice place to have your lunch!

From apple trees and alliums to zinnias and zebra grass, over 300,000 plants are now growing in Greater Manchester thanks to our #GreenSpacesFund Round 1 groups 🍎🌳🌷 GM Green City Sow the City City of Trees Groundwork Greater Manchester Lancashire Wildlife Trust RHS Bridgewater

Great to have Natural England Exec Group visiting Cornbrook Medical Practice today, thanks for all your help maintaining the site. We developed this garden in partnership with NHS to provide horticultural therapy and ecotherapy. 🌱🌾 #natureforhealth NHS Greater Manchester GM Green City

Live around Whalley Range? Want to save time watering your plants? 💧🌱 Come along to our free Water Resistant Planter workshop with Sow the City and learn how! Date: 29th of May 🗓 Time: 5:30-7:30pm 🕒 Location: the Boiler House, Moss Side, M16 7DA

We are giving away free spent mushroom bags at the Boiler House in Moss Side!🍄 You can re-use this substrate as a fungal-based soil improver - crumble it up and sprinkle it like mulch around your plants! Collect any time from the @BoilerHouse 9 - 4pm. M16 7DA 🐞🌞🐛

Great to start the Postcode Gardener Project with Friends of the Earth funded by @thecooperativebank. We had a great first session, at Hall Lane Day Centre, building their new community garden. We’re committed to creating 50 green spaces in Wythenshawe over the next 3 years!!

There’s almost 150 community growing projects that are part of the Growing Mcr network. Here’s the Ladybarn Community Hub Community Garden! They grow fruit and veg with volunteers twice a week and have a biodiverse wildflower garden too. Polytunnels and more planters arriving soon.

Trying out the ancient art of miso fermentation this afternoon with our Growing Mcr network at Moss Side Community Allotment. Whoever first thought to mix mouldy rice with beans and leave it for 6 months was a genius!

Great day yesterday at RHS Bridgewater for our annual Growing Manchester networking event. Community growing groups came from across Manchester to develop new connections and learn from each other. Our Growing Mcr network includes 150 grassroots groups from across the city! 🌳

We’re at Dunham Massey National Trust every Thurs 11-3pm throughout the school hols. Nature based art and craft activities can support children’s mental health and wellbeing, develop motor skills and improve their artistic abilities.

Green roof installed in Stockport Town Centre today in partnership with Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Green roofs reduce runoff and flooding, improve air quality, are increases biodiversity (bees visiting already today!).. and they don’t look bad either. We love green roofs!

First day creating a wildlife hedge and allotment Plymouth Grove Primary School in longsight today with our volunteers. The project forms part of the Department for Education National Education Nature Park that aims to increase engagement with nature for all young people. What an excellent idea!

Another Green Spaces Fund (R2) project complete. Wow. Beautiful space offering therapeutic benefits to many in an area of high urban pressure Mayor of Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Environment Fund GM Green City

We hosted a lovely bunch of environmental consultants from the Lucion this week at Ladybarn Community Hub. They dug out a huge new wildlife pond and built a new three bay composter. Good work!

Fantastic to see the new Sow the City branding in action today for the first time at the Friends of the Earth Postcode Gardener launch event in Gorton. We will miss our old flower pot logo but was time for a change (it served us for over 15 years!)