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...
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...
CropShare on Cambridge105 Flavour show 2012
In 2012, CropShare was featured on the food program Flavour (@Flavour105 on twitter) on local radio station Cambridge 105. Thanks for having us Flavour guys! Listen below as they interview farm volunteers…
…and taste our community-made redcurrant jam!...
Another great CropShare – FoodCycle double act!
Here’s what happened when we visited FoodCycle again with CropShare vegetables….
So in October we provided a load of lovely CropShare apples to local food charity geniuses FoodCycle for their Saturday lunch. Click here to read about CropSharer Axel’s day helping cook up our apples, along with local waste supermarket food, into a healthy and tasty FoodCycle lunch.
Squashes travelling in style
This time round we took along what was seasonal and in abundance at the farm at...
CropShare Chutney hits the shelves!
CropShare volunteer Jacky supported CropShare by buying some fresh apples and onions from us- here she is with the fresh ingredients on the farm!
Apples were picked by CropShare volunteers at Farmer Paul’s orchard in Reach, see our blog post about that here. There were plenty more apples than we expected, so as well as charity donations, Jacky’s chutney was a great use for local surplus of seasonal fresh fruit.
Apple harvest
Onions were planted, weeded and...
Ways with CropShare wool
So you know about the sheep at the farm…
…well what have we been doing with the wool?
Farmer Paul shears his small flock himself, and back in May/June time he kindly gave me a load of fleeces to experiment with.
Ahem.
After beards (obviously) the next thing we tried was felting. This was easy to do – thanks to Jess for the inspiration! Here’s a good felting tutorial. It worked great, we made a wall hanging and...
Winter planting and exciting CropShare Chutney
Oh hi… we’re planting garlic!
OK I admit it! It was my bright idea in the cycle group going to this week’s CropShare to take the “scenic” route….. which turned into the REALLY MUDDY route. Sooooorry guys…..
Wasn’t that bad, right?
Bit of mud does you nowt but good! After that ordeal, and a cup of tea, we got down to planting crops for overwintering, garlic bulbs and onion sets were up first. These will both be...
A CropSharer does FoodCycle
Thanks so much to CropShare volunteer Axel for this week’s blog post about his adventures at FoodCycle!
Here’s Axel picking apples like a pro with a litter picker last week!
After last week’s great apple harvest, CropShare volunteers started distributing some of the apples amongst local charities such as Cambridge Cyrenians, Emmaus and Winter Comfort. Yesterday it was my turn to deliver some apples to the Cambridge branch of FoodCycle, something I was looking forward to immensely,...
What a lot of apples…..
And this was only half of them!
CropSharers had a change of scene this time round, and visited an orchard in Reach that Farmer Paul planted around 10 years ago. The trees were heaving with apples! Varieties included Spartan and an unidentified type of Laxton. Both very tasty eating apples!
We used all sorts of tactics to get at the crop. Of course we had a lot of fun climbing up the...
Bringing in the onions and rye
So it was finally time to bring in the onion crop again! This was one of the most memorable sessions for me last season and I have to share again Isobel’s juggling tricks…
Onions from the field were gathered onto the trailer.
Then the onions were unloaded into the polytunnel, where they will keep dry and the added heat of the tunnel will help dry them through.
These onions will be used in the farm box scheme...