by growshepwayuk_main | Oct 3, 2022 | Allotments, climate change, environment, FoodForFree, Foraging, Gleaning, Rewilding
“The water from a 2 inch downpour – more than 54,000 gallons per acre, is captured almost entirely by an oak forest’s leaf litter and the organic humus it creates. Litter and humus don’t hold this water indefinitely, but they do corral it...
by growshepwayuk_main | Jul 29, 2021 | Allotments, FoodForFree, Gleaning, Hythe Environmental Community, Hythe Triangle Community Garden, Incredible Edibles, News, Rewilding, Sandgate Community Garden
July has been an interesting month hasn’t it – some super hot sunny days and some heavy stormy weather days too – although not as much rain as we thought we would get – and certainly not enough to replenish the water butts. In fact a good old mixture of just about all...
by growshepwayuk_main | Jun 22, 2021 | FoodForFree, Foraging, Gleaning, Hythe Community Hop Farm, Hythe Environmental Community, Hythe Triangle Community Garden, News, Sandgate Community Garden
We have had lots of rain and lots of sunshine – guaranteed to make everything grow like crazy. The community garden and allotment groups have been busy busy busy too and there are some really terrific gardening and nature projects happening right now across the...
by growshepwayuk_main | Jun 7, 2021 | Gleaning, Hythe Environmental Community
Time to do a quick Gleaning update: We haven’t been posting every week as it has been lean pickings this spring with rubbish weather for farmers. But we have been going out every week, usually with just a small crew of 4 to sort reject spuds from storage crates....
by growshepwayuk_main | Feb 18, 2021 | Gleaning, Hythe Community Hop Farm, Hythe Environmental Community
Plant/Seed Swap: Despite valiant attempts to plan and hold Covid Safe Plant/Seed and Produce Swap events where anyone can bring along something they have an excess of and take home something that they need or want, these just had to be abandoned as the seriousness of...
by growshepwayuk_main | Jan 10, 2021 | Gleaning
“Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers’ fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. ” Communities get together at pre-arranged time and place and with...
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