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Progress In Walled Garden

Progress In Walled Garden

The 3 plots in the walled garden are now nearly all planted up, with beans, brassicas, garlic, onions, peas, potatoes, squash, courgettes, parsnip, lettuce, sweetcorn, tomatoes, and strawberries.  We had

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Farmers Markets at Gibside

Farmers Markets at Gibside

  We intend to start selling again at the Farmers Markets at Gibside this year. The first market we will be at is on 1st July. The market is open

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progress on the field

We have made good progress in getting the field planted up.The garlic planted in November is now looking big and strong. The onions are coming on well and the leeks

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Potato Planting 2017

On thursday 27th April we will be planting this year’s potatoes (weather permitting!) The Ferguson Club will be helping us again, with their potato planter, and we hope we will

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Apple tree planting

on Saturday 3rd December, we planted 24 apple trees on the field. The weather was fairly good, dry and not too cold. Many thanks to all the members and their

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Orchard Planting

We will be planting apple trees in National Tree week Nov 26th to 4th Dec, thanks to receiving a grant from the Tree Council. This will be on the field

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