Forest Row woman urges volunteers to get stuck in to community garden project

Mieke Vierling has spent the last two years restoring her 19th-century home, a former doctors' surgery in Lewes Road.

She is turning it into an "educational centre" where she will carry out yoga and acupuncture.

But outside she is creating a space for residents to "take responsibility for their own healing", with a garden full of medicinal plants and herbs.

The edible hedgerow has been planted alongside a public path, made up of trees including cherries, pears, damsons, walnuts and blackcurrants.

Passers-by on the route between Lewes Road and Hartfield Road will be able to harvest it themselves.

"My aim with the building is to create a space where people can return to their inner selves through working with their common senses," she told the Courier & Observer.

Mieke would like volunteers to help her in the garden. Telephone 07795 551684 or e-mail mieke4fs@hotmail.com to get involved.

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