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  • Fire Raising

    Wood shavings, tissue and a flint No matches necessaryfrom spark to a flame…. and fire!

  • Woodland Cricket

    Inventive & impromptu cricket……take a handfull of grass, wrap it up in duck tape and Hey Presto! you have a cricket ball Add a branch from a tree and three sticks and a sawn in half log and WOW! you have Woodland Cricket! Fantastic Fun

  • Experiment Archimedes Screw……The Movie

  • The Apprentice Project (TAP) Day Two

    Day Two of the TAP project. A day for making, everyone excited and raring to get out in the garden Start off by going to have a look at the rainfall levels in our collecting vessels After some of the heaviest rainfall this year, causing floods in the St Austell areas overnight, the jars are […]

  • First Frosts

    16th November sees the first hard frost of the season. The garden was a picture on arrival, the temperature -4 deg Brrrrr A wander round the garden discovers the water collecting jars, put out last week, frozen solid The steps icy, the swept steps forming little balls of frost-snow, the red berries on the holly […]

  • Mouse in the House

    The first real winter frosts have come, and our furry friends are beginning to seek out warmth, like the rest of us. A scrabble around in the near-empty log basket discovered a small family of mice nice and cosy by the woodburner, scuttling about. Squeals of surprise from the Boot Up! team probably rendered them […]

  • Tasty Snack

    Last of the summer crop, green tomatoes, a small onion, some apples and……….. Wow….. yummy green tomato chutney – Boot Up! style, eaten with crackers and cheese in the yurt for lunch. Yum

  • The Apprentice Project (TAP) Day One

    After eating lots of cake, Meg explained about the project.( we all ate cake by the way, not just Meg…) She gave everyone the choice of an unusual and different water catcher (jar, vase, jug, bottle etc) and a beautiful personalised wooden label made on the laser cutter at Uni. Meg has also made some […]

  • The Apprentice Project (TAP)

    Meg, our 3rd yr 3D Design Student has devised a series of workshops for the young people to plan and create a unique way of moving water across the site. Drought conditions earlier in the summer led us to thinking how we were going to pump water from Tall Trees Allotment to Flowerpots Allotment, about […]

  • Ready for Winter

    Logs, logs, logs…….getting warm twice!

  • Mellow Fruitfulness

  • Apple Harvest

    Trees heavy with fruit, windfalls on the ground, the frost. We are late with the harvest, so lets get cracking! The apple press is on order and we need to get barrow loads of windfalls to make the juice. Can’t wait!