We Dig Hastings! Community Gardening Event on the Beach – Everyone Welcome

Saturday, 25 October 2025

1pm – 3pm Denmark Place, Hastings Seafront

Free to attend and get involved!

Join Great Dixter and Transition Town Hastings for a hands-on afternoon of community planting and coastal gardening to help create Hastings’ first “living laboratory” on the seafront!

This pilot initiative will play a key role in shaping the wider landscape design for the Town Deal-funded Hastings Public Realm and Green Connections project and the team will be trialling a new kind of climate-resilient, biodiversity-rich planting scheme designed especially for our harsh seaside conditions.

With guidance from Fergus Garrett and the expert team at Great Dixter, you can be a part of this first-of-it’s kind grey to green, climate resilient scheme:

·       Planting a new ‘living lab’ to test the tolerance of plants to our severe seaside climate

·       Learning from world-respected experts about how, what and where to plant, and how to care for it

·       Meeting like-mind people who share an interest enhancing the biodiversity and natural beauty of Hastings,

contributing to the transformation of our town centre.

The planting scheme trial will help test future landscaping and biodiversity approaches across the town centre project. These will be delivered alongside new accessible walking and cycling routes and enhanced public spaces as part of the wider project, which should be starting construction in late Spring 2026. More details of the wider project can be viewed here.

Hosted by Transition Town Hastings, this ‘gardening party’ is part of a growing movement (no pun intended!) of local people committed to working better together to improve, increase and protect our town’s public gardens and green spaces.

Good to know!

Everyone is welcome – no experience needed!
Children and dogs on leads are very welcome too. There will be spare gloves and tools available but do bring your own if you have them and dress for the weather!

Visit the Transition Town Hastings Facebook page for more details.