Things are hotting up on the farm and we’re getting ready for the big dig potato harvest starting this Saturday 31st July – do join us if you can and take home some delicious Sutton spuds! We’ll also be sowing swiss chard and autumn salad such as winter perslane (frost hardy and bursting with vitamin C – California gold rush miners used to eat it to prevent scurvy!).
We’ll also be starting to monitor biodiversity on the farm this Saturday and will be joined by Sutton’s Biodiversity Officer Dave
Our bee hive is now installed too thanks to Rob which is really exciting (see photos)!
As it’s the summer holidays we’ll also be doing children’s activities every Saturday – let us know if you’d like to help with this.
Other news:
Last week 10 of us headed to the Woodcote Nursery vegetable garden – it was really inspiring and we’re keen to work towards making the farm as productive…
Job opportunity: Talking of productivity we are looking for someone who can work one or two days a week at the farm, operating farm equipment such as the tractor so we can get more of the land into use – let us know if you know anyone who might be interested.
New loo: We’re getting a new (free!) compost toilet installed next week – it’s much larger (and better) than our current one and will hopefully be wheelchair accessible too…
Team work:Over the next few weeks we will be painting the shed and building a gate for the farm – let us know if you want to join the fun!
Permaculture: thanks to everyone who expressed interest in the farm permaculture course – we’ll send details in the next newsletter or two.
