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.

Saturday, 19 June 2021

Summer is nearly here!

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 Replacement of the leaky flat roof... Our leaky old flat roof on the black shed has now been replaced with a new, sloped green roof. Just l...
Thursday, 22 April 2021

Busy times at the Empty Common Community Garden

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  Lovely time at ECCG - a  busy, enterprising Sunday for our volunteers. We m oved materials for the shed, edged and weeded beds, we split u...
Thursday, 1 April 2021

Welcome to Spring: bike racks and garden edges

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  We now have bike racks at both entrances to the garden, thankfully clearing the garden of our Sunday bikes clutter when they were perched ...
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Monday, 22 February 2021

It's all about birds at ECCG

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At the end of January,  Nicola did the bird count alone, due to Covid-19 restrictions, and this is what she found: Robin 3 bluetit 5 magpie ...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Snow at Empty Common Community Garden

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Our volunteer and supporter Ian sent us these photos from the snowy community garden. Snowdrops have appeared, so apt! These early blooms ar...
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Monday, 18 January 2021

A new year's tidy garden thanks to recycled old bricks

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This winter we were given hundreds of old bricks and what with all the slabs we have been given over the years it has spurred us on to organ...
Monday, 4 January 2021

Happy New Year! How to force rhubarb for an early crop

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Happy New Year from the Empty Common Community Garden! Our coordinator Charlotte has sent in this update accompanied by beautiful photos. Th...
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