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Embercombe Visit – April
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A Bright and Breezy day in April the Boot Up! team visit a similar project in Devon – Embercombe. Embercombe is both a place and an organisation. It’s a 56 acre site on the west facing side of the Haldon Hills near Exeter looking out towards Dartmoor. It has mature woodland, a lake, meadows an […]
Blinding Success
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The day was wet so we decided to do fabric printing in The Den. The idea was to make some blinds for the windows. Fantastic colours…..and designs……. And to finish …. a birthday cake for one of the team Happy Birthday !
Bean Pole Forage
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ON a cold stormy day in February half term, we d ecided to keep warm by going on a forage for new growth hazel sticks to be used as bean poles. First … find a suitable tree in the far-off hedges…straighter the better The carry them back across a windy field…. easier said than done! […]
The Apprentice Project – The Finished Product
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After months of designing, planning and creating ideas to transport water across the Boot Up! site, and after a few failed prototypes, the final product was revealed. The Boot Up! Water-pot Can. Using the most abundant waste material on site, flowerpots, Meg and the Booters came up with a simple design by plugging up the […]
May magic!
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Tucked away the strawberries have been growing all winter; lots of water and some straw to lift them off the earth and look what we have! THE MOST DELICIOUS THING I’VE EVER TASTED! And there’s plenty more growing! yum.
Easter Party!
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It’s the end of term and what a sunny day! Easter egg hunt… in the strawberry patch… Easter rabbit hole! Today we were really productive and made windmills, which work well as bird scarers and shine in the spring sun…. ….amazing wooden stools with Rory, painted bright sunny colours…. …planted the clay pots we made […]
People & Places visit
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We were invited by the Eden Project’s People & Places Project to have a look around their nurseries near Pentewan. One of their team was making a show display for the Spring Flower Show at Boconnoc on Saturday. They were making a ‘ Living Room’ A living armchairA living carpetlots of plants for the display […]
Bamboozled
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The National Trust’s Head Gardener at Glendurgan Garden harvested some bamboo for us to use on the Bottle Greenhouse build project. We had to go and get it… we did not expect it to be soooo bushy! You can imagine what this looked liked driving over to Boot Up!