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Activity of the Day: RHS Secret Garden design competition
Even if you're stuck indoors, you can dream about your perfect garden: Share your wildest ideas with the world in this competition from...
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Kate
Mar 21, 20202 min read
Activity of the day: Be the early bird...
Find and identify loads of lovely earthworms and make your own wormery from household recycling
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Kate
Mar 20, 20203 min read
Resource of the day: Khan Academy
Create a free Khan Academy account and get into self-directing your learning in maths and other subjects
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Kate
Mar 20, 20201 min read
Activity of the day: Birdwatching (and Birdlistening too!)
Even if you're stuck in the house, you can still look out for birds and admire how they move and sound.
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Kate
Mar 20, 20201 min read
Anyone else got growing veggie tops yet?
The carrots are sprouting fast- that’s the good thing about doing this in spring! And having now been given a bunch of recipes for carrot...
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Katy
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Art in the yurt still!
Lovely session at the yurt this week, finishing Lino cuts and printing them. Also hot chocolate, enjoying being out in the park...
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Kate
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Easy fruit muffins with our new YouTube star!
Video instructions for how to make these lovely vegan-option muffins (which work with any fruit, fresh, frozen or dried) are on our new...
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Kate
Mar 19, 20204 min read
Time for a bike ride?
Get the kids route planning, find back roads around your neighbourhood and teach safe road riding while traffic levels are low- what's...
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Kate
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Home activities posts are starting to grow...
Grow your own vegetables in a saucer
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Katy
Mar 15, 20201 min read
More fabulous watercolours!
We’ve had a lot of fun playing with watercolours, as well as looking at how artists throughout history have depicted fruit! Really...
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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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Kate
Mar 13, 20201 min read
Get your luvverly apple trees here!
One bundle of M26 apple rootstocks and a roll of grafting tape at the ready for a great forest school session. We’ll be doing some...
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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 6, 20201 min read
FREE event on EHCP assessment at Alderwasley Hall School
Alderwasley Hall school are hosting a free seminar on EHCP assessment from HCB solicitors at 7pm on April 22nd to help people learn about...
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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 2, 20201 min read
Gorgeous
We’re just finishing negotiations with Veolia for a license to manage this lovely wild area of land near our Rowditch Allotments site on...
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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 29, 20201 min read
Willow and blackcurrants!
Seven people working for a morning can get a lot done - especially when the weather decides not to hail all day and is sunny instead!...
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Katy
Feb 25, 20201 min read
Sunshine, tipi, pancakes!
The tipi circle had its first outing! We tried it out today, with no rain and a gentle breeze, and it worked a treat. It then became our...
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