Touchstones Potager Garden
About the project
PROJECT TITLE: Touchstones Potager Garden
LOCATION: Rochdale
FUNDING: Awarded £36,000 in Round Five of the Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund
DELIVERED BY: Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust (operating as Your Trust)
The idea
Creating a new public garden at Touchstones museum and gallery in Rochdale.
The space will be co-designed and co-created with Petrus and community members experiencing homelessness, inspiring long-term guardianship.
Designed to be attractive and inviting year-round, they will plant hundreds of new trees and sustainable flowers, plants and herbs, boosting biodiversity in the urban setting. Accessible paths and seating will ensure everyone can enjoy nature.
Connected to Touchstones' stories and collections, the garden will also offer creative engagement opportunities celebrating our local natural history.’