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Growing Food Together
2013
Winter snow
January
February
Winter veg at Stirley Farm survives the snow
The Cre8 Barn...
...a work in progressFebruar
y
February
How many seed potatoes can you fit in
a car boot? We’re about to find out...
March
Potato Day stampede...
...blink and you’ll miss the Pink Fir Apples
March
Having fun with potatoes (the grown-ups had fun putting them in baskets)
March
When will Winter be over then?
Woolley hats required for shallot planting at Stirley
March
It’s the last day of March and we really want to dig (there’s earth under
here somewhere)
March / April
What a difference a week makes
Stirley Farm has its first twin calves!
April
8th April
April
28th April
Honley Explorer Scouts build new bee-friendly beds at Stirley
April
Eggs from our allotment neighbour
April
Making wild garlic pesto, with Rob adjusting our seasoning via text message from Canada
May
May
Plant Swap - the Growing Newsome elves have been busy
May
Tomatoes andmore tomatoes
and random brassicas
May
Nobody gets out of here without at least two strawberry plants and some advice about bees - them’s the rules
May
Yum
May
John builds raised beds at the allotment
May
A sunny day foraging with Taste the Wild at Stirley
May
Looking at things near and far
June
Many hands make Newsome village planters
...and Cummins put up new signs
Kirklees College build a new wall at Berry Brow Rec...
June
Treats for Berry Brow Carnival - scrummy rhubarb cake and runny raspberry mousse
June
Doing our market stall thing
June
Little helpers at the community allotment
June
New Stirley Farm access road and signs complete
June
Planting out courgettes, squashes and pumpkins
June
Stirley Farm’s Orchard and Forest Garden are flourishing
July
Capturing the Summer in jars and bottles...
July
...first up, elderflower cordial and redcurrant jelly
The ‘Plant it, Grow it, Eat it’ volunteers visit us in Newsome
July
Picking from David’s infinite gooseberry bush
July
There should always be time for tea
July
Stirley Farm Kids’ Club has a summer of sunshine
August
Open day at the community allotment - also our first Growing Newsome AGM
August
Our accidental pea and sweet pea combo,and things lurking in the undergrowth
August
The Farm House - re-roofed by Cummins Turbo Technologies
and currently being renovated by volunteers on Tuesdays
August
Pet potato of the year
August
‘The’ carrot
The CPRE kindly donated money for a new seating area at the
farm...
...made from old timbers from the barn
September
The third annual Stirley Open Day is a huge
success...
September
...and the Cre8 Barn is open for its first home grown
lunch!
September
September
Mikron Theatre’s ‘Beyond the Veil’ play...
September
...with advice about growing bee-friendly plants and a local lunch
The veg beds had a brilliant year in their third growing season!
September
Allotment delicacies - pumpkin leaves (Beatrice’s favourite) and yellow beetroot
(Diane’s favourite)
September
Carole and Cherry help to make the first chutney in the Cre8
Barn...
...and Windybank Gardening Club make soup
October
Autumn Gathering
October
Who made all that jam?
Fun for all ages making bird feeders and plant markers...
October
...and David, our resident garlic expert, talks hardnecks and
softnecks
A beautiful cake, baked by Pat and iced by Jan...
October
...and awarded to Janet D for correctly guessing the weight of our biggest
allotment pumpkin.
Stirley and Growing Newsome volunteers take produce to the Green
Valley Grocer...
.... and visit the Golcar Food Co-operative
November
Brewing up and planting a blackcurrant from Jacqui
November
Christmas craft fairs - jamtastic
November
Winner of the community allotment’s ‘most exciting moment of 2013’...
November
...the arrival of 3 tonnes of manure
The last of this year’s tomatoes
November
The UK storm, unkind to sheds...
December
...our roof stayed on (after a fashion), and we gained bits of somebody else’s
Stirley Community Farm offers its first Christmas veg bags for sale....
...and plans are made to sell Stirley beef in Autumn 2014
December
A last bit of harvesting for our Christmas Gathering
December
Welcome Robin Arthur Shumsky, born 15th December 2013
December
to growing friends
old and new...
see you in 2014