Community Garden Blog
Spring and it feels a bit like a war zone in the community garden; slugs, snails, mice pheasant and pigeon all seem to have equal shares in our labours. We are trying various methods of control and trying to plant…
Photography group: organicARTS Volunteers
Some wonderful photographs of frogs in the garden pond by Val Hall. Val is a skilled gardener who has been working at the farm for some years. She has a deep attachment to the farm, its landscape, wildlife and plants…
Willow buds!
Fresh buds (and hopefully roots to match) are appearing on the first block of willow to be planted in Organic Arts developing willow and fibre garden. Deggie Belton, together with regular Organic Arts volunteers and students from Exeter university, has…
Future Threads at organicARTS
Eve Malster, from Future Threads, writes about her work with organicARTS. “The project I am leading for organicARTS aims to develop a fibre craft ‘arm’ to the charities work. I feel so lucky to have won a place with the…