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Growing Food Together
2015
January
January
Let there be light...
...we take a new year tour of
progress at Stirley Farm
January
Countryfile
filmed Hillside
Primary at Stirley
7 million viewers!
January
Local Food Stories day - Growing Newsome take time out to reflect on our journey so far
February – Still plenty of food in the garden for budding
chefs!
February First calf of 2015 – ahhh!
February
Picking cabbages
in the snow
February
February
The Growing Newsome elves
begin the mammoth task of packing up
this year’s seed potato orders.
More bags needed!
March
Many hands
make seed packets
March
Huddersfield Potato Day
March
The best presented potatoes you’ve ever seen?
March
We received a comment card
saying: “We loved Rachel’s craft
activity”
We did too :-)
March
Huge thanks to everyone who helps to run
Growing Newsome’s
events
March
Thank you to Cummins Turbo Technologies
The cavalry
arrive to create a
level base at our
community
allotment
March
Sowing the first ever seeds in the Stirley
polytunnel!
March
Big Dig Day
March
Every year there comes
the day when we plant our first pea...
...nature’s best dibber is still going
strong
Things are sprouting
at the allotment...
and there’s an alien in Carole’s
back pack
April
April
The potting shed has landed....
April
Helping Hands (and lots of them) spend
a morning at the community allotment
April
Mikron theatre company entertain us on the new Stirley patio!
Lovely start to our Sunday - a flying visit from Lisa
May
Plenty of smiles from the kids in the
kitchen and garden…
May
…but some are not so
sure.
We made three-cornered garlic pesto. Fancy.
May
Growing Newsome’s Big Plant Swap
May
The smart swappers came
armed with their own trugs
May
Planting out sad looking sweetcorn, in hope...
June
Planting isn’t easy on a slope, but we persevere
June
Open Farm Sunday and Stirley is looking gorgeous for our 300 visitors !
June
Open Farm Sunday
June
After a very slow start – the growing season finally gets going, as proved by our
brand new raisied bed!
June
A true milestone:
June
So many visitors to the farm that the lunch ran out, but
Toby made us a lovely houmous sarnie.
June
The CPRE worked hard at Honley Show to help protect our beautiful open space
from development.
June
Growing Newsome at Berry Brow
Carnival
June
...Y... M... C.... A
Here begins Growing Newsome’s surreal summer
June
June
Meanwhile, we find the perfect seats for our shed...
June
we make a start on the strawberries...
and we put the kettle on
June
Jean’s garden, full of special things
June
Growing Newsome took part in the “This Changes Everything” film festival
July
Our favourite example: “if you sell 500 cups
of apple juice, you meet 500 people”
July
The Stirley Bees have a ‘field day’ in the wildflower meadow
July
We enjoy our summer fruits
July
But we had to fetch reinforcements to
pick all those strawberries
July
“Look at those cabbages!”
July
We get our community allotment ready for visitors
July
“I name this garlic Antoine (or Jean Luc)”
July
Us and our shed (and a nice chap off the telly)
July
Simon Gregson brings the TV, radio and press to our community allotment, to celebrate Growing
Newsome reaching the finals of the National Lottery Awards
July
This is what they call VIP
Location Catering...
July
...but we call it serving soup in a
mudbath
Nature tots get crafty…
July
...and find out where eggs come from.
A beautiful stall at Play
Day.
August
Fruity creations!
We’ve had such fun with those redcurrants this year
August
No vampires allowed in the polytunnel
August
Community Allotment open morning - with real sun!
August
Allotment chic
August
September
Tackling climate change with jam
Welcome to our runner bean forrest
September
Ian samples the first ever Stirley beef burger.
September
Stirley Farm Food Festival
October
Stirley Farm Food Festival
September
The star of the show – the smoothie bike!
Stirley Farm Food Festival
September
Ale, music and great company and nearly 1000 visitors!
Getting ready for our Autumn Gathering
October
Growing Newsome Autumn Gathering
October
whoo-whoo-whoooo
October
Things of beauty
Cummins put up a new
polytunnel at the
community allotment...
October
...with some expert guidance
from John
That sweetcorn turned out nice
October
Plenty of foraging at Stirley!
October
Edible fungi – hmmmm…..
James from HarvestHud showed us how to take soft fruit cuttings
November
Diane made one final batch of jambefore hanging up the pan til next
summer
November
Working to save our Hedgehogs!
November
We lit a small candle in the dark, for the climate...
November
...part of the Low Carbon Kirklees event
Hall Bower Supper
November
A major cook-a-thon for Anne!And a rescue remedy kit for later on…
...and packed up the last of our jam
December
Another milestone for Stirley – the cows have finally come home!
December
to growing friends
old and new...see you in 2016
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