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a car boot? We’re about to find out...
February
7. Having fun with potatoes
(the grown-ups had fun
putting them in baskets)
March
8. When will Winter be over then?
Woolley hats required for shallot planting at Stirley
March
9. It’s the last day of March and we really want
to dig (there’s earth under here somewhere)
March
15. Making wild garlic pesto, with Rob adjusting
our seasoning via text message from Canada
May
18. Nobody gets out of here without at least two strawberry
plants and some advice about bees - them’s the rules
May
21. A sunny day foraging with Taste the Wild at Stirley
May
25. Treats for Berry Brow Carnival - scrummy
rhubarb cake and runny raspberry mousse
June
31. Capturing the Summer in jars and bottles...
...first up, elderflower cordial and redcurrant jelly
July
32. The ‘Plant it, Grow it, Eat it’
volunteers visit us in Newsome
July
36. Open day at the community allotment also our first Growing Newsome AGM
August
38. The Farm House re-roofed by Cummins Turbo Technologies
and currently being renovated by volunteers
on Tuesdays
August
40. The CPRE kindly donated money for a
new seating area at the farm...
...made from old timbers
from the barn
September
44. Mikron Theatre’s ‘Beyond the Veil’ play...
...with advice
about growing
bee-friendly
plants and a
local lunch
September
45. The veg beds had a
brilliant year in their
third growing season!
September
46. Allotment delicacies - pumpkin leaves (Beatrice’s
favourite) and yellow beetroot (Diane’s favourite)
September
47. Carole and Cherry help to make the
first chutney in the Cre8 Barn...
...and Windybank Gardening
Club make soup
October
49. Fun for all ages making bird feeders and plant markers...
...and David, our resident
garlic expert, talks
hardnecks and softnecks
October
50. A beautiful cake, baked by Pat and iced by Jan...
...and awarded to Janet D for correctly guessing
the weight of our biggest allotment pumpkin.
October
51. Stirley and Growing Newsome volunteers
take produce to the Green Valley Grocer...
.... and visit the Golcar
Food Co-operative
November
54. Winner of the community allotment’s
‘most exciting moment of 2013’...
...the arrival of 3 tonnes of manure
November
56. The UK storm, unkind to sheds...
...our roof stayed on (after a
fashion), and we gained bits
of somebody else’s
December
57. Stirley Community Farm offers its first Christmas
veg bags for sale....
...and plans are made to sell
Stirley beef in Autumn 2014
December
58. A last bit of harvesting for our Christmas Gathering
December