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Tool care time!
Cleaning and sharpening your tools regularly keeps them working well and means they're as safe as possible to use. Plus, it's the...
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Kate
Jul 11, 20202 min read
Activity of the day: Make an oat, rice or bean herbal microwave hot bag
These are lovely and reassuring if you’re feeling a bit under the weather or it’s cold or just generally could do with something warm....
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Katy
May 15, 20202 min read
Activity of the day: Swinging tin can painting!
We decided to do some art in the garden, so we could be quite messy, and do something big! This is a great activity if you have a bit of...
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Katy
May 14, 20202 min read
Activity of the day: sled kites of all sizes!
Sled kites are perfect for all ages, and they fly in practically no wind. In fact, tiny ones will fly in the hot air above a radiator!...
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Katy
May 12, 20202 min read
Activity of the Day: Celtic battle trumpet!
Time for something a little different- make something that makes lots of noise! This is a great sound-making construction, and we’ve used...
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Katy
Apr 21, 20201 min read
We have the power to compost!
A beautiful day on the plot, so what better job than to...build the compost bays! These will be so useful - not only for our own green...
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Kate
Apr 14, 20203 min read
Activity of the day: Cut the sun out (part 1)- simple window shading
This post links in with the Keep Your Cool series. Today we'll be looking at how to make simple window shades using paper, card and foil....
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Katy
Mar 31, 20201 min read
Try making a tippy tap!
We're spending lots of time in the garden at the moment, so we made a tippy tap for hand washing on the go! It's really simple and very...
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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 29, 20201 min read
More sock critters...
They wanted to make more sock critters today! These owls - from the link in the last post- are great as they only need one sock plus...
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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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Kate
Mar 14, 20201 min read
Recycled plum tree!
It was really sad last week when we found our biggest fruit tree had rot right the way through it’s trunk- it had to be fully removed...
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Katy
Mar 10, 20201 min read
Pots of pots!
Despite the wet weather, spring is definitely happening- so we have been sowing seeds! After a paper-pot production line, there was a...
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Kate
Mar 4, 20201 min read
Our heap of chippings runneth over...
Loads of thanks to Phil at PJC Trees http://www.pjctrees.co.uk and Jonathan at JB Landscapes https://m.facebook.com/jblandscapesholbrook/...
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Kate
Mar 1, 20201 min read
Please could we have any spare chippings and paving slabs?
Please could anyone near Derby with wood chippings or paving slabs they don’t need, or who knows someone who may have spare, get in...
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Kate
Mar 1, 20201 min read
No more rain until October?
Today we released the lower edge of the roof felt and fitted a gutter to the side of the shed to protect the windows and wall below-...
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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 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 3, 20201 min read
We’re going to Chatsworth Show!
It’s official: Crow Wood CIC will be exhibiting our “Walk on the Wild Side” upcycled garden design as a schools garden at the RHS...
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