Growing food community and ecology for TQ9
This mornings meeting at Fat Lemons in town was with Hayley, an architect who's a friend of the farm, and who after an hour had demystified building a shed and put the CSA on the right track. If you need an architect that is ecologically sensible – she's it! Now we just have to see about planning permission… Thank you Hayley!!!
A last day on site for Dave (Dartington's tree guy) means he's finished laying the hedge between our propagation glasshouse and the neighbouring community garden. Suddenly we can see all the way over to foxhole (the big white building)! Great to have the views!
Our favourite tree guy was at it again. Making quick work of laying the hedge between our propagation glasshouse and the neighbouring community garden. Always good to see hedge maintenance undertaken on site as they’re hotspots for all sorts of critters. Thanks Dave!
Today our volunteers were playing with compost. Making a lasagne that included old veggies and cow manure from our friends at Jolly Farm CSA. A messy business, but a great mix which we'll use on our veg beds in our glasshouses in a few months. But it made everyone pretty mucky! So there was some team cleaning at the end of the day. 🙂
School Farm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) CIC
Thanks go to our amazing long term volunteer Chris for doing so much work researching and planning our new hedge. I got to see his plans today on his very professional easel in our new field. Very exciting stuff.
Yesterday we found out we've been awarded a £15,000 grant and mentoring program from UnLtd. It'll help us expand the farm and move us from grant dependency to financial sustainability… So we're pretty excited and spent the night at the pub celebrating. 🙂 thanks to everyone who helped with the application and speech preparation!
