What a brilliant workshop we had this morning. Such an enthusiastic group of weavers making quite frankly massively impressive garden obelisks which involved some interesting manoevering to get out of the hall and into cars (a mini and a golf amongst them!) . Ruth Thompson of Sylvan Skills patiently taught Read more…
We were really lucky to have a fantastic group of young people come and volunteer for us from Newcastle University’s Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem management MSc course on Wednesday. They worked their blimmin socks off and made such a difference by cutting back our wildly overgrown willow, furiously digging the pathways Read more…
This week is Mental Health Awareness week. Since starting on this project (three years ago gasp!) I’ve had so many conversations with close friends, family and even relative strangers about how mental illness has had a direct impact upon their lives and it is so much more than I ever Read more…
We had an amazing volunteer day on Saturday. It was gorgeous and sunny (just like we ordered) and our volunteers got stuck into digging over the Medway building garden, staking and mulching our Hornbeam hedge and making doors for the poly-tunnel. Thanks to each and every one of you for Read more…
Now that the site is a bit dryer, there’s an awful lot of work to do so we’re holding a volunteer day on Saturday May 5th and hope as many as possible of you can join us. There’s a range of jobs from cutting back willow, moving compost, planting, mulching, digging, staking… Read more…
We’ve been so frustrated here because of all of the water on site. Snow melt and constant downpour had brought our groundwork to a standstill for such a long time, but battling through the mud we have managed to get the poly tunnel frame up and it’s looking impressively like Read more…
Last year we were lucky enough to get funding from Tesco Bags of Help to develop the growing space and sensory garden. So thanks to everyone who put a green token in the box for us because it has helped us develop this lovely area at the top of the Read more…
Fancy pitting yourself against your family and many others in a contest to grow the tallest sunflower? Cash prizes to be won! Entry packs cost £2 and you have until 1st September to grow your yellow giant. Email us your details and get involved!
Allendale Mayfair Committee have kindly added us to the list of potential beneficiaries from the proceeds of their raffle, in amongst other brilliant causes. If you could take a minute to add a vote for us we would really appreciate it, thank you https://fans.vote/vote/ACvv8UTfCMg/allendale-may-fair-2018/who-should-benefit-from-this-years-raffle-proceeds
Well this is frustrating. After the excitement of getting started on site we’ve now been brought to a complete standstill. It took a week for the snow from the beast from the east to melt and then another week of waiting for the melt- water to subside, and now we’ve been Read more…