The Garden also plans an educational project to collect and record the “Living Memories” of older people with connections to the Garden, particularly if they worked there before it became derelict. The Walled Garden would like to hear from volunteers prepared to interview and record these recollections as well as from people willing to be interviewed.

A workshop for interviewers will be organised and recording equipment will be made available. A leaflet on the project will be produced and the collected material will be included in a publication on the history of the garden.

Later in the year, a series of 4 public lectures on the history and restoration of the Helmsley Walled Garden will be held by the local horticulturalist and well-known garden author, Lin Hawthorne. These lectures, together with the papers of the late Alison Ticehurst, who saved the Garden from dereliction, will form the basis of a book, “The Story of the Helmsley Walled Garden”.

Further plans include botanical illustration classes given in the Garden by the local botanical illustrator and RHS gold medallist Bridget Gillespie, cookery classes for students and parents of local schools and the development of study packs for school visits about plants and the history of the Garden.

At the conclusion of the project, an exhibition documenting the history of the Garden and a food festival will be organised