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Growing Food Together
2014
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January
New year, new hats...
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Stirley “Three years on...” walk
January
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One of our Winter jobs... tidying up Raymond and Jenny’s herb planterFebruar
y
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February
Another of our Winter jobs...
...our seed packet production line swings quietly into action
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February
A fabulous fruit pruning day
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February
Snip, snip, snip
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March
Potato Day (brace thi sen)
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March
Student volunteers from the Uni giving us a big hand
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March
Rachel doing her Eric Morcambe routine
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March
Empty baskets before you know it
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Our ‘Big Dig’ day - getting our spuds in...
March
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...with much hilarity over our accidental ‘severed finger’ potato (half a Pink Fir Apple)
March
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Hurrah, it’s time to plant seeds
April
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Lovely herbs - our reward for giving a talk
at Thurstonland Village Association
April
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Digging
April
Photo: Tim Padmore
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Cooking in the Cre8 Barn (when I first came here grace was a baby –
Kim)
April
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Spring :-)
April
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Stirley’s second set of twin calves - ahhh…
April
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Mmmmm - These humans are really tasty
April
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May
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We’re getting to be experts at making wild garlic pesto
May
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May
Plant Swap -what can you find?
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May
Learning new skills - from seed bombs to Level 2 food hygiene
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May
High water mark at the community allotment...
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Yorkshire Sculpture park meets Stirley Community Farm to create a cow
sculpture….
…and then set fire to it…
May
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June
“Flaming” June - a very soggy allotment open day where we met some new friends
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Berry Brow Carnival
June
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A lovely day planting things together
June
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Launching Stirley Beef at Honley Show
June
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Getting our allotment in order
June
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Toby collecting a swarm of bees (with a paintbrush, ladder and a
cardboard box)
June
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Currants a-plenty this year
July
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It’s jam time
July
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We revealed some secret ingredients at Newsome Bowling Club’s open day
July
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Trying to keep up with our picking duties
July
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David’s infinite gooseberry bush strikes again
July
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We took part in the first Made in Huddersfield event
July
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along with some of our friends...
August
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Picking the Stirley bumper crop of plums
Notice the new polytunnel in the background!!
August
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Thank you Pam and Graham for showing us around your allotments...
August
sorry we brought the rain with us
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A lovely present of strawberries...
thank you to everyone who brought us nice surprises this year
August
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Stirley Beef Box Scheme’s first customer
September
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Stirley Open Sunday, with added jam
September
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An Indian Summer necessitated ‘Extreme Mowing’
September
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Calfie and Monica (not sure who’s in charge)
September
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Tea break
September
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Did we mention the digging?
September
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Mikron Theatre Company perform
‘til the Cows Come Home’
October
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An Autumn Gathering full of goodies
October
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October
Chocolate Cherry tomatoes great this year and still going strong
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Stirley Community Farm Food Festival
October
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Hall Bower supper
Confession: we all ate too much cake
October
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October
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Getting our beds ready for next year
November
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Hubble, bubble, toil and... something
November
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Slippy path indicator system (single use only hopefully)
November
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All hands on deck to reclaim our paths
November
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Guess where David’s been
November
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November
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Christmas craft fair
November
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Is it time for fruit pruning again already?
November
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Our favourite jam jar delivery of the year - Caroline’s empties from Made in Huddersfield
December
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Picking stuff for our Christmas Gathering
December
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to growing friends
old and new...
see you in 2015