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...was not doing any gardening today! But we were being crafty instead. We had a lovely afternoon making scented bags and boxes to take...
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Katy
Oct 3, 20221 min read
Teatime after school
Here we are again! There is still some produce to be had, courgettes, chard, grapes - and apples (stewed with custard!!). But we've also...
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Katy
Oct 3, 20221 min read
After school…
We picked a huge quantity of grapes to giveaway- not only to other plot holders, but also to a local school! We love our teatimes at the...
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Katy
Aug 30, 20221 min read
More Stocky Café gardening
We had another good afternoon working in the community garden, with the lovely people from Renew Stocky Café. The raised area around the...
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Katy
Aug 26, 20221 min read
Stocky Community Garden
We had another lovely afternoon at the community garden! We were pruning the willow, and making plans for the autumn… The new plantings...
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Katy
Jul 25, 20221 min read
Summer holiday morning
We’ll have some ad hoc sessions over the summer, for our regular ‘after school’ people, and the first one was today! We picked lots of...
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Katy
Jul 21, 20221 min read
Birthdays
Two of our young people have had birthdays recently, and today we gave them presents of art materials- which the got stuck into using...
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Katy
Jul 5, 20221 min read
Al fresco tea!
What started out as a much cooler, cloudier day just got hotter and hotter! So we had our meal outside, which was lovely🌺🌼 We forgot to...
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Katy
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Art and volunteers
We had a young volunteer this week, who spent time at the allotment and with the art group. She helped pick (and eat!) our fab...
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Katy
Jun 8, 20221 min read
After school crafts
We spent some time watering the vineyard greenhouse, then had a relaxing painting session for our first week back after half term....
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Katy
May 20, 20221 min read
Fabulous kaleidoscopes!
Something that’s been in my mind for a while, and today we finally got around to making our own kaleidoscopes from scratch. They seemed...
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Katy
May 14, 20221 min read
Steiner-inspired art
We’re using special waxed paper to carefully cut out designs that will overlap and create gorgeous colours when the light is behind them....
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Katy
May 14, 20221 min read
Wild wildflowers
Our young people were learning the safe use of tools this afternoon- in fact, they were using shears to clear nettle. They made the...
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Katy
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Sunshiny after school
Lovely weather, and we’re still marvelling that it’s light until the end of our session! New energy for creating different sorts of dens,...
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Katy
Apr 5, 20221 min read
Potions!
Much cooler and quite overcast this afternoon, but there’s was lots of potion making! We have lots of herbs on the plot, and the mint is...
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Katy
Mar 29, 20221 min read
Allotment jobs
Probably the last of the really warm weather for a while, so at our after school session we did some work on the allotment- weeding,...
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Katy
Mar 23, 20221 min read
Mother’s Day, and making camp!
We’re really loving the longer evenings- hard to think that we needed the greenhouse lights on until quite recently. We used some...
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Katy
Mar 8, 20221 min read
And we didn’t need the lights!
This was our first after school session where we didn’t need the greenhouse lighting- it’s definitely spring! And we used our first...
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Katy
Feb 5, 20221 min read
Winter jobs
Our volunteer session was very productive- we took a load of thornless gooseberry cutting. Hopefully, if they take, we will have plenty...
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Katy
Feb 5, 20221 min read
Stars and pizza!
One of the lovely things about winter after-school sessions is being able to see the stars. We sometimes use a free star chart app to...
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