March 1st Open Day postponed
Due to the ongoing bad weather, we've sadly had to make the decision to postpone our open day until things dry out a bit- hopefully late...
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Kate
Feb 23, 20201 min read
Dolmades and grape juice, anyone?
As we may have mentioned, we’ve been really lucky to take over the management of the vineyard plot at Rowditch Allotments. The vines were...
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Katy
Feb 22, 20201 min read
Our volunteers are fab!
We always wanted to work with volunteers from the community, and we are very lucky to have several already! Maddie is our newest recruit,...
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Kate
Feb 21, 20201 min read
It hardly rained at all today!
And with the help of our brilliant new Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteer Maddie and old hand Xander we’re very nearly almost ready for...
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Kate
Feb 19, 20201 min read
Where there’s muck...
There are lovely people who lend you muck forks, show up with a wheelbarrow and move a whole lot of it into our (now very purposeful and...
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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 16, 20201 min read
Ciara and Dennis make a mess...
Storm Ciara last week saturated the ground on the plot nicely: Storm Dennis has, apparently for the first time ever, managed to flood...
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Katy
Feb 13, 20201 min read
New art group!
We’ve just started a brand new group for younger artists! Our very first session was spent experimenting with water colours, and being...
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Kate
Feb 13, 20201 min read
Progress!
Progressing along our paths is getting ever easier with all the progress we are making at the allotment!
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Kate
Feb 12, 20201 min read
Compost, cuttings and cake- it must be Chatsworth prep time!
It may have been sleeting outside, but following the success of their willow cuttings, the home ed forest school bunch carried out a...
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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 10, 20201 min read
National Lottery Community Funding bid success!
We're only slightly ridiculously overexcited about this... The National Lottery Community Fund told us today that the bid we submitted in...
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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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Katy
Feb 6, 20201 min read
The Arty bunch again...
A beautiful winter’s day, snug in the yurt. Intense concentration , creating more beautiful prints- and progressing to lino cuts.
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Katy
Feb 4, 20201 min read
A shout out to the workers!
They might have been working hard nailing up the remaining fencing rails, levelling the ground for the circular shelter area and moving...
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Kate
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Well, this is one way to put up a tipi...
Today all the fruit trees have been moved to their new homes, leaving space to make our permanent tipi circle. But first, we needed up...
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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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Kate
Feb 2, 20201 min read
12 bags of sharp sand, 11 concrete paving slabs...
(More than) 10 muffins... A whole lot of stuff that doesn’t fit the song like building loo shed bases... And a ladybird in a pear tree-...
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Kate
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Caterpillar, bumble bee
Water butt, shed base. Sounds like the beginning of a really agricultural beat poem... But the plot is really starting to take shape....
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Kate
Jan 31, 20201 min read
Give Frazer a lever long enough...
And a muddy allotment to stand on, and he will move the shed. ...As Archimedes would have said if only he’d thought to visit the Crow...
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