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!...
Seeds sown and plants planted in their 1000s…
We had fun at our latest CropShare farm day sowing seeds and planting plants in massive numbers as it gets up to the busiest time of year for the farm. CropSharers also fed the farm's youngest lamb and we kept ourselves busy collecting eggs, hoeing and planting....
Our version of events…happy shiny CropSharers!
First, let me start off with some quotes from the mind of Farmer Paul (@waterlanderman on twitter) that he posted to his blog …
“The morning wasn’t too bad, first thing…..Then the sun disappeared completely . The wind got up . I handed out my spare coats to all and sundry to keep their rapidly cooling bodies warm . I then handed out new potato sacks , then old potato sacks and finally some were...
Lights, camera, CropShare!
It was a fun day at the farm this Saturday! CropSharers did LOADS of different jobs, spent time with the farm's lambs and chickens, topped up their suntans from the last CropShare day and were made into farming film stars!...