We have had another productive year within both the horticultural sense and on a human level. The fruit cage has provided a bumper harvest of gooseberries and currants along with raspberries and tayberries. We are thinking about what other fruit…
Summer has come and gone, with us all too busy to write a blog. So here we are at the onset of winter. The community garden has been really productive and during a very cold Spring, the polytunnel came into…
Ecoids update: pilot project now complete A pilot project to carry out environmental monitoring at West Town Farm has been a great success. Visitors to West Town Farm in the spring may have seen the eight prototype ‘ecoids’ hanging in…
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…
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…