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Activity of the Day: Pressed flowers with or without a flower press!
A great traditional way to preserve flowers and leaves, this is an incredibly easy technique suitable for absolutely anyone to do. It...
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Kate
May 20, 20201 min read
Planting out demonstration
Here’s one of our mini gardeners demonstrating how to replant pot grown plants. These tomatoes went into the vineyard greenhouse last...
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Kate
May 20, 20203 min read
Recipe: Really Tasty One-Pot Rhubarb Pilau
Pilau dishes are eaten across a large part of the world- pretty much anywhere rice is grown. Some varieties of pilau use bulghur wheat as...
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Katy
May 13, 20201 min read
Pests on the plot!
Working on the allotment around the orchard area, the fruit tree blossom looked fantastic, and it was good to know that they’re all doing...
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Katy
May 7, 20201 min read
We've gone interactive!
The wonderful artwork created by one of our groups, The Yurt Collective, is part of Air Arts' Wellbeing in the Workplace exhibition at...
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Katy
Apr 29, 20201 min read
Late spring (nearly) forage
The beautiful weather has made walking the dog along our local roads and in the small park a real pleasure. Now in late spring, there are...
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Katy
Apr 28, 20201 min read
Almost ready to move house...
We have a greenhouse full of seed trays and seedlings! But they're in the wrong place...Well, we had to start our veggies off somewhere,...
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Katy
Apr 26, 20202 min read
Time to jam!
The crumbles and cakes have been going down very well, but then we discovered monster rhubarb on the new vineyard plot! So it was time to...
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Katy
Apr 13, 20202 min read
New craft sessions - jewellery making!
Just because our groups can't meet at the moment, certainly hasn't stopped us planning for when we can! One of the workshops we will be...
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Kate
Apr 8, 20201 min read
Activity of the day: Potting on kitchen seedlings
We had a look at handling small seedlings using the handle of a teaspoon a while ago. Today, the mung beans, cannellini beans and popcorn...
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Kate
Apr 6, 20203 min read
Activity-ish of the day: Fruit tree grafting!
Learn about grafting fruit trees- why bother, and how to do it.
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Kate
Apr 5, 20202 min read
Activity of the day: Time for a bug hunt
The ground has dried out a bit, the sun has decided to shine quite a lot, and there are definitely more buzzy flying things about... So...
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Katy
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Delicious mint and lemon cordial!
Make a lovely cordial with the first peppermint leaves. We picked them from the garden (with help from the hen!). Tear a generous handful...
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Kate
Apr 4, 20203 min read
Activity of the day: Make pictures, cards and wrappings with leaf and flower hammer art
We really like this activity because it's another one that's really flexible and can be modified to suit everyone (unless they're really...
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Kate
Mar 31, 20203 min read
Activity of the day: Handling Seedlings, or, What to Do Once Stuff Starts Growing (or you buy some)!
Some of the seeds we planted a couple of weeks ago have started growing really well- so now it's time to give them some more space to...
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Kate
Mar 30, 20204 min read
Activity of the day: Crops from the kitchen
Grow your own gorgeous plants from all sorts of things you'll find in your kitchen
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Kate
Mar 26, 20202 min read
Activity of the day: Fruit lollies and granita
Make delicious fruit granita or lollies using just fruit, sugar, a dish and a freezer
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Kate
Mar 25, 20201 min read
Activity of the day: Make a simple carrot and leek (or any vegetable, really) soup
Make a simple vegetable soup with instructions from our YouTube channel
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Katy
Mar 22, 20201 min read
Hard graft- day 2!
More barrowing...and levelling! The fantastic Richard has been levelling the base and managing the troops. Volunteer Sam has been...
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Katy
Mar 21, 20201 min read
Hard graft on the allotment!
There were a fair few other allotmenteers about, and there’s was quite a bit of interest in the hole that we were digging! It’s the...
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