2023


2nd December 2023

Sustainable Local Food: Crediton Cooks Local

Explore and Share ideas using food from your garden and the countryside. Want to know what to do with apples, medlars and quinces? Want to know how to cook delicious dishes from surplus food? Come along and find out! ...


28th November 2023

Crediton Garden Club 'Hedges of the Devon Countryside'

A presentation by Tom Hynes ...


28th November 2023

Allotment News

The Community Allotment is dormant at the moment (March 2024). More news later ...... The tail end of autumn and the hints of winter mean the tasks of the allotment change. We have still managed to harvest little round carrots from the standing trug. The chard is doing really well and de ...


25th November 2023

Crediton Cooks Local

You are invited to this free event on 2 December ...


24th October 2023

Crediton Garden Club: 'Hostas'

A presentation by Peter Savage of Bowden Hostas. ...


26th September 2023

Crediton Garden Club: 'Cyclamen, wild and cultivated'

A presentation by Jo Hynes. ...


3rd September 2023

Community Allotment news

Despite some challenging weather at times we have had some lovely days and evenings at the allotment. We have given the bottom section of our very large allotment back to the allotment association and what we have kept has been much more manageable. We've had lots of wonderful Charlotte potatoes, t ...


Picture of a wheelbarrow full of garden trimmings
30th July 2023

Community Allotment change of opening times

The Community Allotment is dormant at the moment (March 2024). More news later ...... Contact Christina Dymond info@sustainablecrediton.org.uk tel 07866 294276 ...


26th July 2023

Macdonalds Planning Application

You may already know that Macdonalds has applied for a drive through restaurant at Joseph Locke Way (near Mole Avon). If you would like to comment on the planning application you can do so at the link below. You can also view existing comments to date. You are invited to comment whether you are ...


20th June 2023

Community Allotment news

UPDATE - Please note the Community Allotment is dormant at the moment (March 2024). More news later ...... The Community Allotment is for everyone. If you would like to come along and share in the gardening, planning and /or harvesting please do. There is someone up there every Wednesday from 11-2 ...


24th May 2023

Pollinator Group Working Party

Bring hand tools and help us prepare for a colourful and pollinator-friendly summer ...


20th May 2023

Crediton Garden Club Plant and Produce Sale

The Garden Club will once again be holding our popular plant sale on Saturday 20 May and we hope to see you there. We are only able to take cash payments for any purchases. Plants - produce - cakes Refreshments will be served in the library. Jill Vanstone ...


19th May 2023

Food Larder Fridge Opening!

Grand unveiling of our new fridge and celebration of our expanded Community Larder! All welcome, come along and support our incredibly hard working and committed community larder team. ...


16th May 2023

Community Larder Fridge Launch: come and join us!

Great news from the Community Larder team: we now have a fridge, which means we can now accept donations of chilled goods. This greatly expands the range of food which will potentially be on offer. We have also signed up with FareShare which will significantly increase the volume of food going into ...


25th April 2023

Crediton Garden Club: 'The Gardens and Plants of Madeira'

Guest speaker: Saul Walker ...


6th April 2023

An evening with Charles Dowding: No Dig Guru

Organised by The Bookery. Further details here. ...


22nd February 2023

Pollinator Group Working Party

All welcome, especially if you are new to the group. Help plant pollinator-friendly plants which will add summer beauty to the park. Bring trowels etc. We will be planting up the flower beds near the Boniface statue. Esther Mann ...


17th February 2023

Community Allotment news

The not very impressive looking twig in the ground in the photo below is our new Marjorie Seedling Plum , which hopefully should give us a bit of fruit in a couple of years. Scroll down for more... I know I said it last month, but really soon the purple sprouting broccoli should sprout and hopef ...


15th February 2023

Presentation: The Hidden World of Garden Bees

If you didn't make the recent talk by Brigit Strawbridge Howard, The Hidden World of Garden Bees, you missed a great talk. Brigit gave an interesting and informative talk about the bees that visit our gardens and the plants that help attract them. Dee Ross ...


11th February 2023

Share, Grow, Eat! Sustainable Crediton's Seed Share event

Once again, the Sustainable Crediton Seed Share was a great success. Visitors were able to enjoy stalls such as the Community Larder, explaining how the larder is helping to reduce food waste. Other stalls holders included the Devon Wildlife Trust, Orchards Live, the Crediton Garden club, Turning ...


18th January 2023

Pollinator Group Working Party

Get those gardening muscles engaged ready for spring, by helping to plant up three new beds with pollinator friendly flowers; and of course help make Crediton more beautiful next summer! ...


13th January 2023

Community Allotment Update

Well, that was a cold bit in December but in the allotment everything survived that you'd expect to survive and a good hard frost is healthy for a garden. The chard , though looking sad will recover I'm sure. Sadly two butternut squashes that were being stored in the shed did freeze, so lesson lear ...


Close-up photograph of a cup-cake
30th November 2022

Our Seed Share event, 11th February: can you help us?

As always, we will be providing yummy refreshments at the Seed Share event at the Boniface Centre. Would you like to contribute by making soup or a cake? Or both! If so, please contact Esther Mann via the link on this page. ...


20th September 2022

Share, Grow, Eat! Sustainable Crediton's Seed Share event

Seed Share 2023 - coming soon - Save your seeds! Save the date - 11th February 2023 Saving seed from one year to plant the next is a traditional skill, practiced since man began deliberately growing food to feed himself. Today, seed swapping can: ● Help protect biodiversity and keeps the dive ...