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YouTube video of GCF and help from Woodland Trust

YouTube video of GCF and help from Woodland Trust

A gorgeous video of Gibside Community Farm and the Woodland Trust grant, starring our very own Mick. Please click on the video below to see it in its full glory!

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May Day Broad Bean Planting

May Day Broad Bean Planting

Photo by Paul! Planting broad beans. Those rows seem to stretch forever….2 beds more to follow later for a longer harvest period.

OPEN DAY!

What better way to spend you bank holiday Monday than coming to see what we do at Gibside Community Farm? Click the link below to download your flyer [foogallery id=”956″]

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Apple Tree Grafting

Apple Tree Grafting

Last weekend we had a very special opportunity: to learn how to graft apple trees. What an amazing course! We learnt why we should graft rather than grow from pips,

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Tree planting!

Tree planting!

We had really 2 good days last friday and saturday planting trees.  On Friday the group from Blyth Star Enterprises came, it was a blizzard to start with, so we

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Tyring work

Tyring work

Harvesting the last of the potatoes was tyring work (I’m reliably informed). I can see why there’s a ‘No more tyres please’ notice up! [foogallery id=”793″]

Hard (standing) work

Hard (standing) work

There have been some exciting developments at the field over the last week or so: a section of the field has been dug out and hard standing put in ready

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Autumn Sun!

Autumn Sun!

6th October 2017 – beautiful autumn sun in the walled garden and leek harvesting by Lesley. I made a lovely soup from a bonus leek (savagely forked by accident) plus

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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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