New to this blog?
Hello! And welcome!
If you have only just come to this site a lot of what you read might not make sense. You won’t have met Ru, the grower, or my fellow apprentice Bruce. You won’t know that Ann-Marie and Precious are two wonderful, regular volunteers. And you won’t know that I work only once a week as a grower at Growing Communities, a social enterprise based in Hackney in London, where we grow salad leaves for our local organic vegetable box scheme. But hopefully you’ll get a sense that the words that I write are part of a learning process. And if you read this regularly, you might learn something too. If you are lucky enough to be eating the salad we grow, you’ll also get a sense of where it comes from and how much care we take to get it to you fresh and delicious. I hope you’ll enjoy it more for having visited this site.
If you have the time, and the inclination, go back to the beginning, to where I started out in April. And take my growing journey by clicking on the days highlighted in blue on the calendar to the right.
May 4, 2008 at 7:28 am |
Sara, this is a great site. You are growing as much as the crops it it appears. lve and light Davidf
June 28, 2008 at 4:28 am |
Hey – nice to see this site. I like the theme. I feel very young in my gardening abilities. I am a community gardener in San Francisco, am a community garden ‘coordinator’ and created the above site for the community gardens in San Francisco – you may be interested to peruse. Some pictures and google link maps. I see you have no compost section. Anyway, will be reading your blog.
Bill G.
February 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm |
Lovely to find your blog. I lived a few streets away from Springfield Park until a year or so ago, so it’s great to see your work, and remember the salad I used to buy at the farmers’ market.
April 5, 2011 at 9:37 am |
Birmingham Ladywood Constituency’s GEML project (Grow It, Eat It, Move It, Live It) has just finished clearing some derelict land next to my house and twelve local residents have set up a grow site to raise our own crops in the inner city. This is the start of our first season so I am looking around for similar projects in order to share success stories and get advice when things go wrong.
July 25, 2011 at 4:02 pm |
Sara
As you know I’ve moved to New York. Do you know about Brooklyn Grange, a huge rooftop market garden in Long Island City? I love your blog and will recommend it to them. They probably know about Hawkwood and vice versa. Real market gardens, real jobs, growing and actually selling food for people to eat! They have a weekly market in the building’s foyer, but mostly sell to restaurants.