growing newsome and stirley farm 2013 - a year in pictures
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A year of growing and sharing food together in Newsome - at our community allotment, at Stirley Farm and in lots of other places across our community.TRANSCRIPT
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Growing Food Together
2013
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Winter snow
January
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February
Winter veg at Stirley Farm survives the snow
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The Cre8 Barn...
...a work in progressFebruar
y
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February
How many seed potatoes can you fit in
a car boot? We’re about to find out...
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March
Potato Day stampede...
...blink and you’ll miss the Pink Fir Apples
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March
Having fun with potatoes (the grown-ups had fun putting them in baskets)
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March
When will Winter be over then?
Woolley hats required for shallot planting at Stirley
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March
It’s the last day of March and we really want to dig (there’s earth under
here somewhere)
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March / April
What a difference a week makes
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Stirley Farm has its first twin calves!
April
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8th April
April
28th April
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Honley Explorer Scouts build new bee-friendly beds at Stirley
April
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Eggs from our allotment neighbour
April
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Making wild garlic pesto, with Rob adjusting our seasoning via text message from Canada
May
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May
Plant Swap - the Growing Newsome elves have been busy
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May
Tomatoes andmore tomatoes
and random brassicas
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May
Nobody gets out of here without at least two strawberry plants and some advice about bees - them’s the rules
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May
Yum
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May
John builds raised beds at the allotment
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May
A sunny day foraging with Taste the Wild at Stirley
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May
Looking at things near and far
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June
Many hands make Newsome village planters
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...and Cummins put up new signs
Kirklees College build a new wall at Berry Brow Rec...
June
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Treats for Berry Brow Carnival - scrummy rhubarb cake and runny raspberry mousse
June
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Doing our market stall thing
June
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Little helpers at the community allotment
June
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New Stirley Farm access road and signs complete
June
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Planting out courgettes, squashes and pumpkins
June
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Stirley Farm’s Orchard and Forest Garden are flourishing
July
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Capturing the Summer in jars and bottles...
July
...first up, elderflower cordial and redcurrant jelly
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The ‘Plant it, Grow it, Eat it’ volunteers visit us in Newsome
July
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Picking from David’s infinite gooseberry bush
July
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There should always be time for tea
July
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Stirley Farm Kids’ Club has a summer of sunshine
August
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Open day at the community allotment - also our first Growing Newsome AGM
August
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Our accidental pea and sweet pea combo,and things lurking in the undergrowth
August
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The Farm House - re-roofed by Cummins Turbo Technologies
and currently being renovated by volunteers on Tuesdays
August
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Pet potato of the year
August
‘The’ carrot
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The CPRE kindly donated money for a new seating area at the
farm...
...made from old timbers from the barn
September
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The third annual Stirley Open Day is a huge
success...
September
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...and the Cre8 Barn is open for its first home grown
lunch!
September
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September
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Mikron Theatre’s ‘Beyond the Veil’ play...
September
...with advice about growing bee-friendly plants and a local lunch
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The veg beds had a brilliant year in their third growing season!
September
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Allotment delicacies - pumpkin leaves (Beatrice’s favourite) and yellow beetroot
(Diane’s favourite)
September
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Carole and Cherry help to make the first chutney in the Cre8
Barn...
...and Windybank Gardening Club make soup
October
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Autumn Gathering
October
Who made all that jam?
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Fun for all ages making bird feeders and plant markers...
October
...and David, our resident garlic expert, talks hardnecks and
softnecks
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A beautiful cake, baked by Pat and iced by Jan...
October
...and awarded to Janet D for correctly guessing the weight of our biggest
allotment pumpkin.
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Stirley and Growing Newsome volunteers take produce to the Green
Valley Grocer...
.... and visit the Golcar Food Co-operative
November
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Brewing up and planting a blackcurrant from Jacqui
November
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Christmas craft fairs - jamtastic
November
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Winner of the community allotment’s ‘most exciting moment of 2013’...
November
...the arrival of 3 tonnes of manure
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The last of this year’s tomatoes
November
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The UK storm, unkind to sheds...
December
...our roof stayed on (after a fashion), and we gained bits of somebody else’s
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Stirley Community Farm offers its first Christmas veg bags for sale....
...and plans are made to sell Stirley beef in Autumn 2014
December
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A last bit of harvesting for our Christmas Gathering
December
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Welcome Robin Arthur Shumsky, born 15th December 2013
December
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to growing friends
old and new...
see you in 2014