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 We are having a meeting on Saturday 2nd May at 12 noon at the clubhouse by the community garden. This is to discuss plans for an allotment open day in May.
We are hoping to build on the success of last year’s open days so the more the merrier. If you wish to volunteer to help or have ideas for the open day then please feel free to attend the meeting.  It’s that time of year when we are busy not only on our plots but also organising open day events so that people can have a wander, a natter and some nosh.
We are planning to make plenty of preserves, pickles and jams but we do need something to put them in so if any Court Lane allotmenteer (or anyone who knows a Court Lane allotmenteer) has any empty jars then just put them in Julie’s shed, Plot 21. The next planned open day event will be on Sunday 17th May and we shall post further details once we have definitive date. Abundance
“A project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit like apples, pear and plums. Each year hundreds of fruit trees go unpicked either because people don’t notice them, may not be physically able to harvest them or there are just too many fruits at one time. bundance is a team of volunteers who have been helping harvest city fruit and redistributing the surplus to the community on a non-profit basis – to community cafes, nurseries, Surestarts and individuals.” “Eat Seasonably is here to help you enjoy fresh fruit and vegetables when they’re at their seasonal best. That means better taste, better value and a better deal for the planet. There’s something so good about eating food when it’s just been picked: a crisp salad when it’s hot and sunny, a fresh wholesome stew when it’s cold.” Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens “The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens exists to support, represent and promote community-managed farms and gardens across the United Kingdom. ” “The UK’s leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.” Tips on how to turn unused spaces into micro gardens of Eden. Useful for those who are revolutionary in their gardening beliefs. The last two Sundays has been spent planting hawthorn and blackthorn hedges around the perimeter fence of the plots. Lots of people from the allotments volunteered their energy and sacrificed time away from their own plots to help with this and also helped with tidying up the community garden.
There was a real sense of cooperation and the good weather added to a real convivial and sharing atmosphere. This was helped by lovely prepared lunches and a few a beers! There is a set of photos on our flick site and a few of them appear below. Here is the set as a slideshow. Photos are courtesy of Ming.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has started a campaign where land can be shared so that people can grow their own fruit and vegetables. This has huge possibilities and it would be interesting to know how allotments like Court Lane could be part of this scheme.
The premise behind Landshare is best described by Monsieur Fearnley-Whittingstall himself in the video below. It would be interesting to get opinions on this from allotmenteers and see how, if at all possible, it can be incorporated at the plots. If you wish to get more information then visit the Landshare site. The BBC have recently launched their “Dig In” campaign to try to get everyone to have a go at growing veg. They are giving away 5 packs of free seeds (Tomato, Beetroot, Carrot, Lettuce and Butternut Squash). One application per household. In case your interested (and who isn’t in FREE seeds?) the web address is below.
We’ve set up our own Flickr site as well as having a flickr group. The idea is that those who know about flickr can just add themselves to the group and those who love photography but are not too sure about the whole world wide web thing can still contribute by having their photos displayed at what I suppose will be a communal flickr site. The reason why flickr has been chosen is that when it comes to real sense of sharing and community then it really cannot be beaten.
All I need is a disk or memory stick with the photos and preferably descriptions of the visuals and if you would like your name to be attributed or just a plot number if you prefer. Grab me at the allotments if you have any photos. If you have ideas on how to develop the flickr group then just add a comment on the blog. Here is a photostream from the Court Lane Allotments’ flickr. Photos have been taken by different people who not only enjoy growing things but also appear to have photographic skills. And here below is the Court Lane Allotments Group photostream. |
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