growing newsome and stirley farm 2014 - a year in pictures

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Growing Food Together

2014

January

New year, new hats...

Stirley “Three years on...” walk

January

One of our Winter jobs... tidying up Raymond and Jenny’s herb planterFebruar

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February

Another of our Winter jobs...

...our seed packet production line swings quietly into action

February

A fabulous fruit pruning day

February

Snip, snip, snip

March

Potato Day (brace thi sen)

March

Student volunteers from the Uni giving us a big hand

March

Rachel doing her Eric Morcambe routine

March

Empty baskets before you know it

Our ‘Big Dig’ day - getting our spuds in...

March

...with much hilarity over our accidental ‘severed finger’ potato (half a Pink Fir Apple)

March

Hurrah, it’s time to plant seeds

April

Lovely herbs - our reward for giving a talk

at Thurstonland Village Association

April

Digging

April

Photo: Tim Padmore

Cooking in the Cre8 Barn (when I first came here grace was a baby –

Kim)

April

Spring :-)

April

Stirley’s second set of twin calves - ahhh…

April

Mmmmm - These humans are really tasty

April

May

We’re getting to be experts at making wild garlic pesto

May

May

Plant Swap -what can you find?

May

Learning new skills - from seed bombs to Level 2 food hygiene

May

High water mark at the community allotment...

Yorkshire Sculpture park meets Stirley Community Farm to create a cow

sculpture….

…and then set fire to it…

May

June

“Flaming” June - a very soggy allotment open day where we met some new friends

Berry Brow Carnival

June

A lovely day planting things together

June

Launching Stirley Beef at Honley Show

June

Getting our allotment in order

June

Toby collecting a swarm of bees (with a paintbrush, ladder and a

cardboard box)

June

Currants a-plenty this year

July

It’s jam time

July

We revealed some secret ingredients at Newsome Bowling Club’s open day

July

Trying to keep up with our picking duties

July

David’s infinite gooseberry bush strikes again

July

We took part in the first Made in Huddersfield event

July

along with some of our friends...

August

Picking the Stirley bumper crop of plums

Notice the new polytunnel in the background!!

August

Thank you Pam and Graham for showing us around your allotments...

August

sorry we brought the rain with us

A lovely present of strawberries...

thank you to everyone who brought us nice surprises this year

August

Stirley Beef Box Scheme’s first customer

September

Stirley Open Sunday, with added jam

September

An Indian Summer necessitated ‘Extreme Mowing’

September

Calfie and Monica (not sure who’s in charge)

September

Tea break

September

Did we mention the digging?

September

Mikron Theatre Company perform

‘til the Cows Come Home’

October

An Autumn Gathering full of goodies

October

October

Chocolate Cherry tomatoes great this year and still going strong

Stirley Community Farm Food Festival

October

Hall Bower supper

Confession: we all ate too much cake

October

October

Getting our beds ready for next year

November

Hubble, bubble, toil and... something

November

Slippy path indicator system (single use only hopefully)

November

All hands on deck to reclaim our paths

November

Guess where David’s been

November

November

Christmas craft fair

November

Is it time for fruit pruning again already?

November

Our favourite jam jar delivery of the year - Caroline’s empties from Made in Huddersfield

December

Picking stuff for our Christmas Gathering

December

to growing friends

old and new...

see you in 2015

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