After a spell of hot, dry weather (when the pond demonstrated to us that we will need to make one part of it deeper to give the creatures somewhere to go if we get a longer spell of hot, dry … Continue reading Meeting the exuberance
A lovely May day and a gentle bit of editing: taking out a bit of bindweed and horsetails, uncovering the Water Avens and Ragged Robin, and splitting a few pond plants to put into the pond. Thanks to Karen, Mr … Continue reading Kingcups, Buttercups & Ragged Robin
After the AGM and hail showers yesterday, the sun came out for our working party. Karen, Rita and Dez were on nettle reduction; Eloisa and Guillermo on horsetail minimisation; Gerard on dead hedge laying; Adele on adding rainbow chard to … Continue reading Post-AGM Working Party
As well as the new mini Food Forest on the project plot, we have a Community Orchard on site, so there are plenty of gorgeous blossoms around at the moment. Community Orchard Mini Food-Forest All the trees (with the exception … Continue reading Blossom Report
With the weather getting a bit warmer, there are signs of Spring breaking out all over, and it’s wonderful to see. Continue reading Signs of Life
Although low lying, our site is quite exposed – particularly since the adjoining factory buildings were demolished a few years ago. This means that a lot of litter discarded on the main road, retail park and footpath finds its way … Continue reading Soggy Litter Pickin
A damp day and a small group, but we got plenty done. We focused on the mini food-forest today, adding plants to it and tidying the paths. You might remember we planted the food forest up earlier this year, putting … Continue reading Food Forest Additions
Beautiful autumn day for a working party, and a good turn out. There was a bit of general maintenance of the mini food forest areas, but our main focus was on enlarging the pond/scrape/boggy areas in the mini nature reserve. … Continue reading November Working Party
Another beautiful sunny autumn Sunday. The plan for today was to see how far we could get digging out some ponds and scrapes to help intentionally store water on the land in the mini-nature reserve. We’ve tried to time the … Continue reading Digging in
On Sunday, organised by the Mothers Who Make an Allotment group, artist-photographer Jo Gane set up her mobile darkroom at the allotment. Jo’s artistic practice uses historical photographic techniques and she was making tin-type portraits of members of the group … Continue reading Moments in time
Urban Allotment: climate resilience & community 