I’ve not been at the site these last few weeks, hence the Jerusalem artichokes holding fort for longer than they probably ought…and I’m afraid I’m still not quite back in business. We closed all the sites for the coldest part of the year, happily coinciding with Christmas and New Year (a belated season’s greetings to you!). The leaves just don’t grow enough to make it worth while for us to harvest this time of year – pick a leaf one week and you come back a week later to find the plant exactly the same. So there’s no point our labouring in the cold…
The first volunteer day back at Clissold Park will be the 10th February. Looking forward to pulling out all the lovely clean tools we worked on in the cold days before Christmas.
Clissold tools get an extra good clean. A cold job on an extra cold day – so special thanks to all the volunteers who’s hands almost froze off in the process.
This year is set to be extra special. The apprentices from last year are taking on a new site and so will bring even more land in Hackney under organic salad production for the Growing Communities veggie box. We should get a new set of apprentices to train up on all things salad-y. And my own food growing project is about to take flight – watch this space around the 9th February…
Tales of a Growing Apprentice 