Planting Raindrop potatoes on 10th May 2018!
Looks a lot of fun! [foogallery id=”971″]
Harrowing
Harrowing and preparing beds for planting. Tony tries harrowing for the 1st time. Doesn’t look harrowing, looks fun! [foogallery id=”982″]
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.
1000 trees!!
The gang celebrated finishing planting 1000 trees before they disappeared into the April mist. Rachel finished the last tree: a biomass willow. Well done team, that’s an amazing achievement! [foogallery
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″]
Tractor Presentation!
Presented as a thank you for all their help especially Brian, Graham and John and many others. From Ian Go Local Grower(who has been helping us), from Go Local and
Early potatoes: Casablanca, Nichola, Charlotte.
Planting the early potatoes with Graham from the NE Ferguson society. Will they really grow up? [foogallery id=”936″]
Ploughing away…
After all the wet weather some of the market garden plots ploughed at last to ready them for planting. It was an outing for our new plough. One of our
Fava Beans
Our Fava Beans (type of Broad bean) have been planted for a contract we have with Hodmedods https://hodmedods.co.uk/. This is a trial! If successful we will have whole and split