Projects

Work on the ground itself, as opposed to things bought for it. Some of it takes a grant, most of it takes a Saturday and somebody with a trailer.

What we are raising money for, and what funding has already paid for, is on the funding page. This page is the doing.

Planned

1. Reviewing the water butts. A walk round every butt on the site to see where it stands: whether it is positioned to catch the run off it should, whether the guttering above it is intact, whether the piping needs repairing and whether the tap connectors need replacing. Nothing gets ordered until that review is done.
2. The pond. Going in this year, in the corner of the field that stays wet anyway. Small, unfenced from the wildlife's point of view, and the nearest thing on site to a habitat rather than a crop.

Underway

1. Rebuilding the compost bays. Almost there. The pallets are up and what is left is posts to secure them, which is a short job and a small amount of timber rather than a budget line.

Completed

1. Raised beds. Three large rectangular beds, built and filled, and already home to potatoes and courgettes. The three together are one plot. What they change is the height of the work, which is what makes them worth the timber.
2. Hedgehog houses. Built and sited, somewhere undisturbed and out of the mower's way. Whether anything has moved in is not something we intend to go and check.
3. Clearing the ground near plot M. An area that had gone under brambles, cleared and dug over, and now an additional plot. One more plot is an eight per cent increase in what we can offer, which is the kind of figure worth putting in an application.

Lending a hand

Every project here gets done by whoever turns up. If you have a machine, a trailer, a spare morning or a skill, the contact page reaches the committee.