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Growing Spaces at New Mills Community Orchard Apple Day

14 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by Julian Ashworth in Events, Food

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community orchard, food

appleday6 poster

New Mills Community Orchard will be holding their 6th annual Apple Day celebration as part of the festival on Sunday 28th September, 2pm-4pm, at the High Lea orchard.

The Community Orchard supports the Growing Spaces project, and it is anticipated that this year’s event will include two things in particular that may interest you:

  • a Produce Swap table: if you’ve a glut of fruit or veg crops at the moment, bring surplus produce along and swap them with other growers
  • Growing advice from local gardeners: if you’ve a question about growing fruit or veg in New Mills, come along and ask the advisors

As well as these, of course its a great family afternoon out, and has the added attraction of the Powderkegs Morris group!

Hope to see you there!

Julian, on behalf of New Mills Community Orchard

Growing Spaces Starts to Germinate

09 Sunday Feb 2014

Posted by Michael Daw in Food, Plants

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allotment society, beardwood, community orchard, growing spaces

Growing Spaces is all about encouraging people in New Mills to grow their own food. We’ve blogged about this a couple of times and also had an ideas-generating meeting back in November. (Follow this link to see more details: https://transitionnewmills.org/2013/12/08/getting-involved-with-growing-spaces)

Last week, a number of us met up to discuss what we could do in practice. We decided to focus on two strands with a number of specific activities:

1. Providing opportunities for practical ‘hands-on’ experience

  • Beardwood Farm is providing a space for people to use to grow their own food, known as Beardwood Natural Living Project. We want to help people to cultivate crops there, involving a mix of new and more experienced gardeners to share skills, experience and confidence.
  • We want to provide people the materials to kick-start them in growing food on their own premises.

2. Skill and experience sharing, with the emphasis on what works in New Mills

  • This will involve demonstrations of techniques, both at events and through real case studies and examples.
  • Skill and experience sharing through question time type events and meetings.
  • Document experience and techniques of what works in New Mills, and make this available online.

There is the potential for the project to expand in various directions in future, for example by addressing the end uses of produce, like cooking, preserving, marketing, composting, etc., or into animal foodstuffs such as egg production.

Of course, we’re not doing this alone and we’re not starting from scratch so Transition New Mills be working closely with New Mills Allotment and Gardening Society, the Community Orchard and Beardwood Natural Living Project. And also reaching out to other organisations that might like to get involved such as local businesses.

We’re quite excited about this project and would like as many people involved as possible. If you have expertise in growing food, or land for growing food others could use, or the time to help out with admin or publicity, please do get in touch: we would love to hear from you.

If you think you (or your friends or neighbours) want to grow more food and could stand to benefit from what we’re doing, watch this space for what’s going on and join in! Follow this blog for updates.

If you’re the kind of person who likes a bit more detail, have a look at the current draft of our project plan. Growing Spaces Project Plan-DRAFT1

And feel free to provide feedback and tell us what you think by commenting on this blog.

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