“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”
— JOHN MUIR
Growing Sudley CIC is a community business based in the walled garden at Sudley Estate, Liverpool.
Our mission is community health, wellbeing and play through nature, plants and herbs.
We provide a range of services and activities to the local community, some free and some paid for, using forest school, social and therapeutic horticulture, nature therapy and community herbalism.
Since 2017 we’ve brought the abandoned walled garden back to life, working with thousands of local people of all ages and abilities.
The walled garden has recently been developed and landscaped by the team who delivered the award-winning Urban Foraging Station for Alder Hey Hospital Trust at Chelsea Flower Show 2022.
Howard Miller’s design, A Therapeutic Garden for Health, Wellbeing and Play, was the result of many years of process and co-production with local people, and is aimed at supporting the activities we provide in an informal, accessible and natural setting.
We’ve now started work on the derelict Changing Rooms building next to the garden, transforming it into a low carbon community asset. You can read about it and see plans here.
Our ethos is strongly centered around the environment and the protection of nature. We do not use chemicals and pursue a permaculture approach to our work. We take the effect of our actions on nature into account across all our work and operate a triple bottom line: people, planet and profit.
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We can’t wait to see you soon!
