A short project aimed at people with lived experience of mental health problems, as an aid to their recovery. We know that outdoor activity can improve your well-being and we know that creative activities can improve your well-being. We’re going…
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…
Nine tiny temperature sensors have been placed at sites on West Town Farm to see if conditions are warm enough to grow bananas and other tender crops. Initial results show that between the 24th and 26th July 2014, air temperatures…
Thanks to support from the ESI/RANE Creative Exchange Programme, the microclimates of West Town Farm will be modelled and mapped by Dr Jonathan Bennie, an Associate Research Fellow at Exeter University’s Environment and Sustainability Institute. Jon is collaborating with artist…
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…