Some of the workers in the garden. Photo: Photo courtesy of Deb Arrowsmith.
Thought for the Week: A gift of a week
Creating a garden
A little while ago over two thousand creative, thoughtful, enquiring, campaigning Quakers travelled to Bath in search of inspiration. You may have been one of them and I hope you found everything you were looking for. You may even have come across the Quaker Legacy Garden. Out on a limb, at one end of the university campus on a rather drab ‘L’ shaped patch of grass, something wonderful began to take shape. During the planning of Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) 2014 an offer was made to gift this little plot to Quakers to see what could be made of it. The Quaker Gardens Project set about gathering Friends to transform it into a peaceful garden reflective of the Quaker way and, when the whole YMG caravan moved on, give it back as a lasting gift to university staff and students. But could this really work… all in a week? We hoped so!
