Grapes Hill Community Garden

What it’s like

A free pocket garden in Norwich with a family garden club, Tai Chi and board games sessions alongside herbs and fruit you can pick.

This is a community-run patch off Grapes Hill where the point isn't a big day out, it's pottering. There's a free family garden club with craft activities and small garden tasks for kids to get stuck into, and the garden itself doubles as an edible trail. You're told you can pick herbs and fruit as you go, just take a small share and leave the rest, and it's worth actually reading the labels since not everything growing there is safe to eat.

Alongside the family sessions there's volunteer gardening, Tai Chi and board games, all free and none of them need booking. The Wednesday and alternate Sunday gardening sessions are open to anyone who fancies getting their hands dirty rather than just watching, which is a nice way to fill an afternoon with a child old enough to be trusted with a trowel.

Opening hours shift with the seasons, stretching to 8pm in summer and closing as early as half four in winter, so it's not a place you'd plan a whole day around, more a stop on the way somewhere else or a regular Wednesday habit. It's free to get in throughout, there's blue badge parking and it's wheelchair accessible.

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