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