Sensory Garden Experience

Nunney's Sensory Garden Experience, Fairy Trail & Treasure Hunt programme 'Find Your Sixth Sense' has come to fruition. 

Sponspored by Somerset Council (SALC) this fun community health and wellness initiative has rightlfully received a lot of attention over the last year.

Over all, it comprised of several community gardening days, one of which included planting our five gorgeous QR coded sensory troughs, one for each sense, as well as multiple fitness bootcamps, and a handful of activities for Nunney children, including a Fairy Door making workshop at the annual Flower Show.

Over thirty local kids made their very own Fairy Doors that they can now seek and find in the Old Quarry Gardens as part of the Treasure Hunt. There are also five other QR coded treasures that already live within the Old Quarry Gardens, or that have been newly created as part of this series, like Sam, our 'build-a-dragon' who is guarded by the fairies inside the 'Dragon's Lair'.

Or, the 'New Willow Archway' that was planted in a February community workshop where kids and their parents and grandparents wove a majestic willow entry into the newly coined 'Exploratory Woodlands'. 

This area now houses the majority of the Fairy Trail & Treasure Hunt that includes the products from the final SALC grant workshop attended by 15 local children and their families, entitled 'Nunney Critter Castle Making' that included making insect hotels, a hedgehog house and some very clever pine cone bird feeders. 

The NPC is a grateful receipient of this grant and we are so pleased so many locals, visitors and tourists alike have benefited from this new and hopefully, long-lasting, Sensory Garden Experience. The project is called 'Find Your Sixth Sense' and we hope you can find your sense of adventure whilst you visit the Old Quarry Gardens.