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Become a farm friend / member

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Support Us

We need seeds and equipment, so if you have any spare supplies please let us know.

Become a Sutton Community Farm Member. For a yearly membership of £20 you can enjoy many benefits including a 5% discount on your shop at The Veg Van, discounts on courses, a weekly newsletter, a tour of the farm and invitations to special events and activities.

Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We can organise activity days out for both small and large groups, tailor made to your needs, including a crash course in food growing, scarecrow making and much more!

Permaculture course 30th and 31st October

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Sutton Community Farm Permaculture Weekender

Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st October 2010

An excellent way to find out more about Permaculture, this two day ‘taster’ based at the community farm and award winning eco development BedZED in south London, will provide an opportunity to actively learn about the principles and gain practical experience of Permaculture design.

The lively, participatory and thought provoking course will be run by Graham Burnett an experienced permaculture practitioner, designer and teacher in Wallington, Sutton (zone 4)

Email Anna or tel. 020 8404 7085 to reserve a place of for further information

Farm mailings – check it out!

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

We send out weekly farm mailings with news, recipes and lots of photos, here are some links to the last few mailouts, do sign up too!

August:

September 1st - Environment fair, new grower and permaculture details

August 19th – farm and veg van on the BBC! First wheat harvest and farmers market too

August 12th – new compost loo and first international volunteer

August 4th – scarecrow competition and Evening Standard article

July 29th – our new beehive arrives! The big potato dig begins…

July 15th – courgette harvest and visit to local veg project at Woodcote nursery

July 8th – lettuces and green manures

July 1st - summer BBQ, live music and pumpkin planting

June 24th – summer solstice celebration and first farm produce transport by bicycle to the Veg Van!

June 17th – links with the Veg Van and Orchard Hill

June 10th – first farm lettuces and facebook set up

June 3rd – community service make brilliant brassica cages

Seed Guardianship

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Deadline for Seed Guardianship for the Heritage Seed Library is Friday 16th April. Seed Guardians are volunteers who agree to raise seed of a chosen variety. Sutton Community Farm has a list of this years remaining ‘orphans’ still looking for a good home!  If you want to give an endangered species a fighting chance of survival, please contact Sarah or Anna.

Join The One Pot Pledge!

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

What is the One Pot Pledge®?

Garden Organic is encouraging the people of Britain to grow edible plants. This nationwide campaign, The One Pot Pledge®, is hoping to recruit 30,000 people who will pledge to grow their own food for the very first time.

Taking part is easy. If you’ve not grown your own before then make the One Pot Pledge® and choose to grow one of the Garden Organic recommended vegetables. If you have grown before but want to help others then sign up as a Gardening Guru, recruit a new grower, download the growing cards and help make their first attempt a success. 

Interested?  Sutton Community Farm hopes many of you will join the One Pot Pledge. We’d also love to run a One Pot Pledge event up at the farm. Drop us a line and tell us your idea and how you would like to take part.

http://www.onepotpledge.org/index.html

Happy Growing!

Sarah and Anna