We have been so busy it’s been hard to get around to writing the blog, but better late than never! Our book-swap, coffee morning and plant sale was a great success, Sam spent hours sorting and labelling individual plants making sure they were all healthy and ready to sell. Most Read more
We are very excited that we are now able to start SELLING STUFF! Starting a couple of weeks ago we began selling our salad veg on Saturday mornings including fresh salad leaves and rocket, spring onions, radishes and beetroot. On the first morning we sold out of salad altogether and Read more
I have just realised I haven’t written an update about the public pond area, it seems like ages ago now but our pond volunteer day back on the 11th May was a massive success. Our team of 10 volunteers painted the shed, dug around and cleared under the picnic benches Read more
We are delighted to welcome the Plugging The Gaps Project, which is situated at the bottom of the site, into the Higher Ground family. This fantastic project has previously been led by Ruth Star-Keddle, Ben Scotting and the North Pennines AONB partnership and they have had a brilliant year with Read more
Well we did it! And the wee ones did at least 11 miles per day I’m so proud of them. We are overwhelmed by everyone’s support and sponsorship, we have raised over £1,200 to keep the project running which is amazing. Thank you so much to all who donated xx Read more
Next week, me and my kids who are 7 and 9 and my friends and their kids who are also 7 and 9, are walking and camping 97 miles along st Oswald way to raise funds for Higher Ground. I’m not expecting my 7 year old to complete it all Read more
Welcome to the site, big poly tunnel’s wee sister, the soon to be Chilli house! I’m beyond amazed at the speed in which this team of volunteers put up our new poly tunnel. Chris, looking like he was off to the office, casually prevented us from making some morbid mistakes Read more
This morning I popped in to see the ladies of the Allen Valley Knit and Crochet group in Catton village hall. They were all cheerful and industrious, busy on their own projects with cups of tea and biscuits in hand, and had invited me along to present a donation to Read more
This weekend it is our first anniversary on the HG site! The ridiculously massive and terrifying compost delivery, first spade in the ground, snow Armageddon, it all happened in the space of a week last year. Just look at how it’s all changed since then 🙂 Feb 2018 Read more
Today Sam trusted me to rummage through his tools and be let loose in the poly-tunnel on my own as he isn’t on site today. Remarkably I didn’t manage to break anything or stab myself with a fork, but I did manage to pot up 48 seedlings (he told me Read more