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Time Travelling on a Tuesday Morning

I love doing history and going back in time to learn how people lived, how they dressed, and what they did. I do history on a Tuesday morning with Innovate. It used to be every other Tuesday, but now it is every Tuesday to make sure we have enough time to get everything done. This […]

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A New Year Back at the Roper Garden

I was really glad to be back at the Secret Garden, which I call the Roper Garden. We had a look around the garden today and talked about what needs to be done. There is a lot of work needed in the physic garden and some nice plants to put in there too, as it

Physic garden

Nadolig Llawen!

We hope everyone enjoys their Christmas break from all the Skills and Wellbeing Project Officers! This article is written by Sunflower, a volunteer at the Secret Garden In October, Pete sadly left the project and will be missed. He is going to be a hard act to follow Both Kate and Naomi have now taken

the group holding up their handmade christmas wreaths in the volunteer centre next to a christmas tree

Hidden Cameras, Hidden Animals

By Sunflower April 2025 I think the wildlife cameras have been good. They have caught some great pics here at the Roper garden. We did have a bit of a wait before we saw anything on the cameras though. But the cameras caught some great pictures in the end. So far, we have seen rats

Photos taken from a wildlife camera of a fox

Sunflower with a Spring in her Step 

We start another year at St Fagans. However, we couldn’t work in the Roper garden at first as they blocked it of due to work going on fixing the roof on the house there. This has meant we have been over in the Volunteer Centre doing different things. We tided the area outside the Volunteer

rat pictured at the gardens

Cyrus in the Secret Garden 

By Cyrus February 2025  I’m Cyrus and I volunteer at the Secret Garden. I have been volunteering at the Secret Garden for a long time. I volunteer for 3 hours every week.  I am interested in animals, especially birds. I enjoy using the Merlin app to find out more about the birds around the garden.

a person gardening in soil
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