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Freebie
Found this bag of bulbs dumped next to the dustbins at home. Will plant them and see what they come up as!
Bright Idea!
Looked in the bucket of bulbs gifted to us from the garden centre and noticed some were sprouting! Though I had better plant them up. 3 pots and 1 growbag later – Hey Presto! Look forward to the sunny delight.
Job well done
Sat 16th Jan. Spent the morning carrying 50 fence posts and 10 rails up the hill to the garden. Was worried about the wood being left in the car park, vulnerable to opportunists. Hard work. Good exercise.
Thinking about things
Thinking about our small but growing community at the garden. The value of the current team members is priceless, the love and interest they show is so welcome and so heartening. The garden feels a safe and happy place. The ideas and discussion are always interesting and the polyHQ-discussions always useful. We laugh, we smile, […]
Words
Words for this week…. Noggin, plans, sketches, pegging out, happy, cold, excited, freezing, bright, squelchy, cake, share, flowerpots, allotment, glass, tea, plastic, mist, tin, posts, robin, dig, soup, bonfire, boots, tape, snow, thermometer, straw, pegs, biscuits, crunchy, forks, water, ice, trees, autumn, berries, dig, artichoke, volunteer, joy……. apart from tea and biscuits these are words […]
stake out!
Staking out the areas for the yurt and the straw bale building – fantastic to be visualising and walking the space Suddenly it all seems real – how amazing!
Drawings
In time honoured Boot Up! tradition – time for tea and biccies! Matt explaining his initial ideas Matt shows us some images of a straw bale house he has designed built locally – we are going to go and see it! already the drawings are taking shape, the sketches bring the project to life – […]
Exciting Times
An important visitor, Matt, who is going to design our Eco-Tect project straw bale building. He arrived in sub zero temperatures to walk the space and get some ideas Matt showing the project team his portfolio Such amazing work
Being Daff -t
January 14th. Despite the air temperature being -1 and heavy frost on the ground following heavy snowfall last week, it looks as though nature is winning through – soon be spring
Community forming…
Great day. Cold but lots of tea, talk, planning, designing, marking out, inviting and digging to warm us up.The sound of people enjoying the garden; groups forming, atmosphere building. Robins unsure at first; so many people in their private space; getting braver as the day goes on.Contrast to, but just as beautiful as, the calmer […]