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Activity of the Day: Make a bigger change
We may have missed getting this post published on the 50th Earth Day (it was on Wednesday 22nd), but it's a great time for researching...
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Kate
Apr 23, 20202 min read
Activity of the Day: Rainbows and vines- it's pavement chalk time!
Linking in nicely both with It Being Thursday (so rainbows for key workers) and our Green Infrastructure How to Keep Your Cool post...
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Kate
Apr 23, 20203 min read
How to Keep Your Cool: Reduce summer overheating using green infrastructure
We know that having more green space around reduces overheating: Cities are generally a few degrees hotter than the countryside around...
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Kate
Apr 22, 20201 min read
How to Keep Your Cool: Reduce summer overheating using floors
This is only going to be a very short post, as unfortunately there's not a lot that can be done about floors to reduce overheating. In...
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Katy
Apr 22, 20201 min read
Rhubarb and orange no-cook cheesecake
Continuing with the rhubarb theme! A very indulgent dessert, and very easy to make. You could make it for a special occasion or just as a...
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Kate
Apr 22, 20202 min read
Activity of the Day: Hunt out the cool spots
This is a way to expand on the evaporative cooling experiments using water as a way to cool off, and is a great activity to do during...
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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 21, 20208 min read
How to Keep Your Cool: Reduce summer overheating through your walls
Hot countries unsurprisingly have some really good principles on how to deal with this. The styles of traditional walls in hot countries...
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Kate
Apr 21, 20204 min read
Activity of the day: Control your powers...
Almost all the energy- electricity or gas- you use in your home will end up as heat. So if you're trying to keep your home as cool as...
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Kate
Apr 20, 20201 min read
So much watering!
We’ve put so many new tiny plants in the ground in the last month, the watering beat us today: No compost bin building got done as we ran...
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Kate
Apr 20, 20207 min read
How to Keep Your Cool: Reduce summer overheating through your roof
Read about how roofs cause home overheating and options for reducing the amount of heat entering your home through the roof.
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Kate
Apr 20, 20203 min read
Activity of the day: Cool it down!
Today we're going to have a look at how effective evaporative cooling is using a science experiment. There are two versions of the...
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Kate
Apr 19, 20201 min read
Compost bays under construction!
They’re kind of flatpack compost bays, with extra challenges. Thanks to the lovely allotment society secretary Anne, we’ve got some spare...
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Kate
Apr 17, 20201 min read
Fruit tree surgery today...
Our first stage of fruit tree training
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Kate
Apr 17, 20204 min read
Activity of the day: Ventilation challenge and doorstop creator
If you have early risers in the house, this is a very good activity for first thing in the morning! We have a bit of a difficulty with...
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Kate
Apr 17, 20203 min read
How to Keep Your Cool: Reduce summer overheating using water
find out about evaporative cooling and how you can use it with ventilation and shading to keep a lot cooler
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Kate
Apr 16, 20201 min read
Heavy cropping
Today we’re planting - well, laying - a large crop of engineering bricks to keep finishing off the paving around the tipi circle....
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Kate
Apr 16, 20201 min read
Bud burst at the vineyard
The grape vines still look like a bunch of sticks until you look closely- but here the first leaf on a bud is just starting to open. Only...
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Kate
Apr 16, 20204 min read
How to Keep Your Cool: Reduce summer overheating by getting rid of heat sources
It goes without saying that the sun isn't the only thing that makes homes get hotter. I'll just apologise again for the quality of the...
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Kate
Apr 16, 20202 min read
Activity of the day: Cut the sun out (part 3)
Learn to use window shading effectively to keep your home as cool as possible
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