Empty Common Community Garden & Meeting Hut

This is the official blog of the award-winning Empty Common Community Garden, which is in Cambridge, UK. It is open to all and is very inclusive. It is based on the principles of permaculture and we grow food and flowers to encourage wildlife (bees, insects, etc). We use no pesticides.

Monday, 6 August 2018

How to make a compost heap & party time!

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Charlotte and Peter start piling the dry stuff In November 2017 we made a compost pile and it got pretty hot. Over 43 degrees C eve...
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Our Community Garden in July: drought attack!

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We are having an exceptional summer with very little rain. Drought means all the grass in parks (and in our community garden) is turning ...
Friday, 8 June 2018

Summer is coming! BBQ, bees and a visit from old friends

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Lovely to see you again, John & Mary! After a very cold spring we are seeing a bit of sunshine. Late in May we had a party, where f...
Saturday, 19 May 2018

May: a belated spring at Empty Common

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The spring has finally arrived at the Empty Common so we have resumed a watering rota for the polytunnel. It has not been a very warm spring...
Thursday, 12 April 2018

We are the talk of the town!

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Empty Common talk at the University Centre The weather has been unseasonably cold and we still have daffodils so late in the season! The...
Wednesday, 21 March 2018

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Last weekend's snow is melting and the garden is coming back to life. Rebecca, one of our volunteers, is a talented local artist. S...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Planning a meeting hut and another rude veg!

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Members of the Empty Common Garden met with representatives of the University of Cambridge's Architecture Department to set up a c...
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