Messy Church

06/02/2026

Back in November 2025 the B2G contained a Winter Purslane seedling to take home to grow for a winter salad crop. The Winter Purslane is now beginning to come into leaf and the tiny spade like leaves can start to be harvested. Simply cut the little leaf heads off, add to other winter salad leaves, wash and create a dish of mixed salad leaves.
Botanical Notes:
🥗 🌱Winter Purslane is a hardy annual herb. Today it is lauded for its properties - one of the few vegetable sources of Omega-3 essential fatty acids, a source of Vitamin A,B and C, magnesium, calcium and potassium minerals. 🌱🥗

15/01/2026

15/01/2026

🐦It’s the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch on 23-25 January 2026 and our Church Garden is a wonderful spot to take 15 minutes to participate in Citizen Science🐦‍⬛

15/01/2026

There are 10 Boxes 2 Grow available to pick up at the end of the session provided by Eco Church. Inspired by the theme of Rainbows 🌈 the B2G will give you 2 colours of the Rainbow - Red and Green with the baby Strawberry plant🍓
Included in the B2G is one baby Strawberry plant in an upcycled yogurt pot. Plus, one Birdfeed seedball for our families to take home, place outside and participate in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2026.
Botanical Notes:
Although the Strawberry plant is still an infant, it is hardy and can be placed outside. The yogurt pot is for transportation purposes and as the Strawberry plant is hardy it can be planted outside on a mild January day where there is no frost. Otherwise, it can remain in its pot on a windowsill until it outgrows it and can then be repotted and placed outside.
The Strawberry flowers need to be pollinated by pollinators like bees 🐝 and then water 💦 regularly to enjoy the flowers grow into delicious fruit 🍓

15/01/2026

Welcome to our January Messy Church session and the inspiration for this session is Rainbows, so the Bible Reading takes us back in time to Genesis.

13/01/2026

Celebrating our 10th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support.🙏🤗🎉

12/01/2026

09/01/2026

Happy New Year and join in the Celebrations on Friday 16 January from 3.30pm for our 10th Birthday session 😊

11/12/2025

🎄🎅🏼The Core Team wish all our Messy Church familed a very Merry Christmas and look forward to greeting you all in the New Year.🎅🏼🎄
🎄🎅🏼Here are dates for your Advent diary🎅🏼🎄