Apple and Squash Harvest
It’s time to harvest squash and apple crops at the farm!
The orchard had a tidy up this month as we scythed away long grass around the young trees to let our pickers through. The sheep have also been running around in there keeping the grass down.
The apple trees were all budded by Farmer Paul and are about 10 years old now. Varieites include various Laxtons, Spartan and Greensleeves.
And after safely storing away our harvest, how better to celebrate than...
Potato and onion harvest
What on earth did CropShare get up to his time?
Among all the balancing tricks…
In field games…
Fencing matches with large organic weed plants (Fat Hen is great for this)…
Ferret play time…
We actually managed to harvest LOADS of onions and potatos! It’s a wonder we get stuff done 😉
Farmer Paul first lifts the potatoes with a harvester – which leaves them near the soil surface for us to pick....
CropShare circus!
Seems like we have branched out here at CropShare, and our farming volunteers have become tumblers and balancers! Here's what we got up to at lunchtime at the farm......
Harvest party celebrations!
On 10th August CropShare had their annual harvest party. The day began with a bit of speed-hoeing, flatbed weeding and harvesting of tasty vegetables for the feast....
CropShare on film!
Back in April CropSharers were film stars for the day as a group of students followed their moves on the farm. The film has just been finished and we love it!...
Costa del Fen
Everyone topped up their farm tans this time round at CropShare as the sun was out and definitely had a hat on. ...
CSA Eastern Region Gathering
Last Saturday I managed to escape the seeding and weeding at the CropShare farm day and went to the first Eastern Region Gathering of CSAs held at the Oak Tree Low Carbon farm just outside Ipswich. Exciting!...
To Bee or not to Bee
Very exciting news- we have some new bees! Unfortunately the last hive died out in the horrible extended winter we had. As they were quite a late swarm we reckon they didn’t build up enough strength to last through the unusually cold spring weather, despite Farmer Paul’s best efforts to feed them. Poor bees! Anyway, here we are with a new swarm, picked up by Dave and introduced into their new hive on the...
Windy times on the farm!
Look at this great wind turbine that the Transition Cambridge Energy Group made!...