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• saturday

  
  

  wild weather. one minute sunny , next torrential rain. thunder rolls. rainbow. arrive in hailstorm. cold and wet.  The shed improvements take place – dry in there! Polytunnel gets cleared a bit more. What do we keep and what do we dig up? the fennel smells nice. leave it for now.  prune back the little […]

• Trees, trees, trees

  
  

  Found some trees today, ok, so not the obviously massive ones that line the ‘tall trees’ garden at Boot Up! But still just as remarkable in my eyes…I am a total self confessed tree lover/occasional hugger!  So on Thursday afternoon, a small Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea) was found in the middle of the pathway, it had […]

• Trago Mills

  
  

  Spending lots of time in here of late! Spending the money is hard, have to make it work for us. Buy the essentials and an enamel tea pot and mugs – tea seems to be such an important part of the day. 

• Funding Applications :(

  
  

  Spent many hours this week making funding applications. Worked ’til midnight to meet a deadline. If we get it, we will have money towards an eco-building. Have had to go back to the drawing board on it as it was returned as not eligible. Re-wrote it, and engaged support for elsewhere – lets hope its […]

• Bonfire Raid

  
  

  Bonfire Night. A huge bonfire has appeared in the field behind the garden. It is stacked high with wood that we could use. The students make a bonfire raid (with permission of course) we got pallets to make compost bins, boards to make the raised beds in the polytunnel and wood to fix up the […]

• Photography @ boot up!

  
  

  A time lapse piece will be up and running by next week, documenting the annual seasonal change through both human and natural influence! Some great ‘documentary’ images so far of the work, people, places, and the garden in general.  Projects in the planning;  – Monitoring of nocturnal wildlife, to establish some camera traps using remote […]

• What a week

  
  

  Late in joining the blog – just been too busy with getting all the planning and funding sorted out. So pleased to see it is all coming on so well, am heartened and excited by all the activity and the generosity of others. Feel constrained by the rigours of the official side of things, just […]

• storm in a tea cup

  
  

  High winds and pouring rain all the way here and up the path – still windy but the rain has eased for now… or maybe I’ve spoken too soon. So, today is probably an indoor, or to be more precise, in polytunnel day, although there are visitors on the agenda so I’m hoping the MET […]

• Pathways

  
  

• First blog of growing thoughts…

  
  

  Space to growGrowing place A plot of land, bordered with rabbit proof fencing, holly, oak, tall firs. Overgrown and beautiful.Base-camp has been (temporarily) formed in poly-tunnel 1, after a hot first day of clearing undergrowth; leaving, transplanting, uprooting as necessary.A path cleared, and another. How far to prune and strim?Wanting to maintain the spaces character…Naming […]