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Apologies to all, the blog is probably going to take a back seat now for the darker months. We’re really struggling with electricity at the moment, and given the choice of cooking dinner with the light on or updating the blog, I’m afraid dinner will win every time. I’ve been developing a bit of [...] 
I liberated a couple of calendula plants from a pile of builder’s rubble in the springtime. I planted them in one of our soft fruit beds, intending to save some seed and plant amongst the veggies to confuse the pests with their bright flowers. They’ve done so well that I’ve got flowers aplenty. [...]
What could be better than a crate full of delicious, fresh fruit? I think the crates of organic fruit currently sat in our training room would be worth a small fortune if you tried to buy them back ‘home’ in a UK Tescos! This particular batch have [...] It’s been awhile since I’ve reported on activities, but we’ve got an enormous amount done over the past weeks. It’s been our busiest time of year in terms of number of volunteers, and we’ve been fortunate to have had an amazing group here, both in terms of their numbers and their energy. Although I’ve [...] Good morning folks. It’s a bit cooler today, and we’ve been scrabbling around for warmer clothes and moaning about the weather. We moan when it’s too hot, and we moan when it’s too cold. I thought it was just the British who moan about the weather, but it seems that it’s an international failing [...] With Spring very much here it’s been time to transplant out the young plants this week. We’ve got some spectacular tomato supports in place, started a few weeks ago in the rain and finished this week in blazing sunshine
There are around 180 little [...] Let’s hope it lasts! We had our first evening without out the stove on a week or so again, then our first volunteers braved a dip in the river. Now we’ve got to the stage where the sun creams are out and we’re spending the afternoons wishing we’d started work earlier in the mornings! [...] Yesterday Patrick’s SLU Course all piled into cars and headed off to Grange Village, a Camphill Community on the edge of the Forest of Dean. Grange Village is a community of around 80 people, around half of whom have special needs. But our interest was the biodynamic garden, which provides the majority of the [...] Well who could have imagined that ecology could be so interesting? Patrick Whitefield is a stupendous teacher. Really. We’ve been looking at how plants, animals, climate, soil and humans interact, which is at the core of everything really. It’s highlighted to me how much we’ve doing wrong, and made me quite proud that we’re doing [...] |
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