Our volunteers are fab!
We always wanted to work with volunteers from the community, and we are very lucky to have several already! Maddie is our newest recruit,...
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Kate
Feb 21, 20201 min read
It hardly rained at all today!
And with the help of our brilliant new Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteer Maddie and old hand Xander we’re very nearly almost ready for...
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Kate
Feb 19, 20201 min read
Where there’s muck...
There are lovely people who lend you muck forks, show up with a wheelbarrow and move a whole lot of it into our (now very purposeful and...
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Kate
Feb 17, 20201 min read
Catching up with the work...
This morning the water was (just about) under the ground instead of on top of it in large pools- meaning we were able to get loads done....
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Kate
Feb 16, 20201 min read
Ciara and Dennis make a mess...
Storm Ciara last week saturated the ground on the plot nicely: Storm Dennis has, apparently for the first time ever, managed to flood...
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Kate
Feb 13, 20201 min read
Progress!
Progressing along our paths is getting ever easier with all the progress we are making at the allotment!
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Kate
Feb 12, 20201 min read
No more muddy paths!
Thanks to Brian at Derbyshire Tree Services http://www.derbyshiretreeservices.co.uk for delivering a first couple of tonnes of chippings...
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Kate
Feb 8, 20201 min read
Willow, sawing, gates... we’re getting there!
It’s been another busy volunteering Saturday: The second set of willows for the withy bed are potted up and awaiting their final home;...
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Kate
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Well, this is one way to put up a tipi...
Today all the fruit trees have been moved to their new homes, leaving space to make our permanent tipi circle. But first, we needed up...
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Kate
Feb 2, 20201 min read
12 bags of sharp sand, 11 concrete paving slabs...
(More than) 10 muffins... A whole lot of stuff that doesn’t fit the song like building loo shed bases... And a ladybird in a pear tree-...
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Kate
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Caterpillar, bumble bee
Water butt, shed base. Sounds like the beginning of a really agricultural beat poem... But the plot is really starting to take shape....
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Kate
Jan 31, 20201 min read
Give Frazer a lever long enough...
And a muddy allotment to stand on, and he will move the shed. ...As Archimedes would have said if only he’d thought to visit the Crow...
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Kate
Jan 28, 20201 min read
Forest school group hit the allotments
Literally, hit: Hammers, mallets, sledgehammers, they had the lot. Great progress made on the fence, more metposts put in for fruit...
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Kate
Jan 26, 20201 min read
Raindrops keep falling on our heads...
But that doesn’t mean we can’t build bases for our sheds! Or at least make a good start on one base, as well as getting the rest of the...
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Kate
Jan 25, 20201 min read
So busy we forgot to take a photo....
Good job it was drizzling this morning: 3 hours of hot work moving slabs, sawing fenceposts and sledgehammering fixings needed the damp...
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Kate
Jan 24, 20201 min read
Reclaimed slabs galore!
Once again we’re really grateful for a generous donation: The fantastic Jonathan from Littleover has given us pretty much an entire patio...
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Kate
Jan 22, 20201 min read
Mist on the playing fields
This was the view from the allotment gates as we went in at 7.30 this morning (you’ll have to imagine the sound of a wheelbarrow full of...
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Kate
Jan 20, 20201 min read
Compost loo stage two
One of our fantastic home education group art session students has been hard at work on her design for our compost loo this afternoon,...
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Kate
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Sunshine, frost and birdsong
Just another glorious morning at the Crow Wood CIC allotment.
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Kate
Jan 18, 20201 min read
Blame it on the sunshine!
It’s been the first properly sunny day of the year (and the first real frost) and the busiest Saturday yet for our allotment setup phase....
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