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Information evening summary

If you couldn’t make it to our information evening at the Transition Cafe last night, this presentation gives you all the details of CropShare 2013. We heard from Farmer Paul who inspired us with his vision of communities reconnecting with the land. Experienced CropSharers shared their experiences with newcomers, and we answered lots of questions, drank tea and had fun. Was great to meet so many new faces, thanks for coming along and chatting to...
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HenShare chicken delivery!

We had a surprise CropShare farm day today, as 30 new chickens for the farm’s HenShare scheme arrived early! The farm already has a small flock of Black Rock- type chickens that were badly depleted by foxes last year. The flock has always been given free run of the whole farm, and used to come up to CropSharers at lunchtimes! Although it’ll be a shame to not have the chicks clucking about us, Farmers Paul and...
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2013 CropShare farm days announced!

Yes, this could be you! Here’s when you can join in the fun on the farm this year! When you come to a farm day, you can join in either for the morning session, from 9.30am, the afternoon session, from 1.30pm, or both sessions. Whichever session you come to, we recommend joining in our wonderful shared lunch which is 12.30pm-1.30pm. At lunchtime, you can share in the farm’s harvest by choosing some fresh seasonal farm...
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First 2013 CropShare day: sheep and strawberries

“Oh, hello there, do you come here often?”   We had a great time at the first CropShare farm day this year! Farmer Paul grows a range of strawberries on the farm, mostly heritage vareties. They too have their place in his crop rotation and this Saturday it was the job of us CropSharers to move plants to another field, so brassicas can be grown on the previous site of the strawbs.   Wrapped up warm! The cooler weather didn’t...
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EAT Cambridge festival, First 2013 workday fully booked!

Transtion Cambridge stall at EAT Cambridge event  We got to talk to loads of lovely folks about CropShare at the Transtion Cambridge stall at EAT Cambridge food and drink festival on Sat 9th March. Thanks for chatting to us and hope to see lots of you on the farm soon!  Farmer Paul asks “Where have all the CropSharers gone?”  Really looking forward to our first farm day of the 2013 season, which is Sat 16th...
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February farm update

Hello there! One of the farm’s cockerels: looking pretty buff mate. I had a quick visit to the farm this February whilst we’re still planning all the work days for this season. Can’t wait to see you on the farm again this year! We’re having our first farm day on the 16th March – sign up if you’re interested in coming on our sign up sheet. So its winter, right, so nothing’s growing on the farm at the...
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