Roots to Fruit Midlands Ltd.

29/09/2025

🌱✨ Healthy Soil = Happy Harvests! ✨🌱

Want to get more from your allotment? Join us at the beautiful Winterbourne House & Botanic Garden, Birmingham for a hands-on workshop where you’ll discover how to:
🌿 Build rich, fertile soil
🌿 Master composting & liquid feed teas
🌿 Use green manures to boost productivity

📅 Date: Monday 6th October 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
📍 Location: Winterbourne House & Botanic Garden

👉 Book your place here:
https://www.winterbourne.org.uk/whats-on/allotments-prepare-the-ground/

Come and learn the secrets of soil health in stunning surroundings—your crops will thank you! 🥕🍅🌼

13/09/2025

Great morning with the Friday Gardening Club ☀️. Making apple juice in our Heritage Orchard 🍎🍎🍎

19/08/2025

🌱✨ FREE TASTER SESSION ✨🌱
We’re inviting you to try out our Supported Learning Gardening Club for FREE!
Since 2014, Roots to Fruit Midlands (a not-for-profit social enterprise) has been helping people with neurodivergence grow skills, confidence, and friendships through gardening and outdoor learning.
💚 What’s on offer?
✅ Fun gardening & outdoor activities
✅ Learn new skills & gain work experience
✅ Build confidence & independence
✅ Meet new friends in a supportive space
📅 Taster session date: Friday 12th September 2025
🕙 Time: 10am – 12:15pm
📍 Location: Roots to Fruit Midlands Training Centre, 51 Chester Road, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2HH (at Oakdene Nurseries).
🔗 Find us here: https://rtflearn.co.uk/how-to-find-roots-to-fruit-midlands-ltd-training-centre/
For more information about the club click on this website: https://rtflearn.co.uk/friday-morning-gardening-club-for-disabled-adults/
👉 Regular sessions run every Friday morning during term time.
🌿 Book your free place now and come and grow with us! 🌿 email or message Jon - rootstofruitmidlands@gmail.com or call 07590620890 to book your free space!
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15/07/2025

Huge congratulations to our amazing students for passing their NPTC Tractor Driving Tests! 🚜👏
This was our first time running this course at Roots to Fruit, and despite the heat, everyone powered through — mastering driving, manoeuvring, reversing with a trailer, and using a 3-point linkage machine. Incredible work!
A big thank you to the National Lottery for funding this free course, which we made available to our brilliant community and not-for-profit champions.
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08/07/2025

RtF Director Adam was touched to receive this lovely card from Principle Joe & Deputy Principle Kiran on behalf of everyone at Oasis Academy Woodview.

We're celebrating a year together that saw us install a History Learning Garden with the children that includes Stonehenge, a Roman road, an Anglo-Saxon/Viking Ship Burial and a Tudor Knot Garden!

We're so excited for what September and beyond will bring!

08/07/2025

Congratulations to our new partner school Oasis Academy Short Heath on their brand new polytunnel - our 19th installed by our amazing friends First Tunnels Polytunnels.

We're looking forward to an EXTRAORDINARY year with you - delivering curriculum linked learning in the natural world!

26/06/2025

Join me on Tuesday 1st July where I'm discussing with the RHS my Master of Horticulture journey and how it puts the cheese in our Roots to Fruit Social Enterprise Nacho!

Grow your horticultural career with the RHS Master of Horticulture (MHort) 🌱 Now open for applications, the three-year online programme is designed for professional horticulturists looking to grow their knowledge and elevate their career in an affordable and flexible way. Sign up to our upcoming ...

06/06/2025

🌿 Free Gardening Safety Workshop! 🌿
Calling all volunteers, community groups, charities, allotments, and small businesses!

Join us for a one-day practical workshop on how to carry out garden risk assessments and use tools safely in public and shared spaces.

🛠️ Fully funded by The National Lottery to support safe, empowered community gardening.

📅 Spaces are limited – book now via the event link!

Master risk assessments and safe tool/equipment use for community gardens & allotments—employees & volunteers included!

06/06/2025

Hi all fancy learning from our allotment expert and gain 50 years of experience in one hour! Book your FREE space for Friday the 13th to learn to Grow Like a Pro at Roots to Fruit HQ. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grow-like-a-pro-organic-gardening-with-malcolm-session-3-plot-tending-tickets-1366848854719?aff=oddtdtcreator

19/05/2025

Hi Facebook Gardeners we also have a few spaces left on our LATE evening practical hanging basket workshop at 7:45. Please book your space using the Eventbrite link below 👇

Create your own hanging basket! Free to watch, late evening hands-on class. If you join in—just purchase your plants at Oakdene Nurseries.

19/05/2025

Hello Gardeners!
We have a few free spots left in our early evening 6:30 PM Practical Hanging Basket Class. The class is free of charge—you only pay for the plants you use! Come along and create a beautiful hanging basket to brighten up your space.

Book your spot now via the Eventbrite link below!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planting-summer-hanging-baskets-free-practical-workshop-tickets-1334933184089?aff=oddtdtcreator

11/04/2025

Roots to Fruit - OUTSTANDING!

On 25th & 26th February our partner school Oasis Academy Woodview underwent a full Ofsted inspection and the report has just been made available.

It makes for wonderful reading - with 'Personal Development of Students' achieving 'Outstanding' status.

Following a full observation of our practitioner delivering a session with the children, and an investigation of the work already undertaken this year, the inspectors had this to say ...

"The school provides further enrichments that deepen pupils’ learning in some subjects.

Through ‘Roots to Fruit’, children make real links to their learning using the outdoor environment. This also supports pupils’ developing knowledge of the different cultures and backgrounds of others."

Congratulations to everyone - children & staff - at Woodview! You're creating something very special for the future.

Roots to Fruit - cultivating great plants AND people!