Everybody needs good neigh-bours

Harvest@Home (part of the Cherwell Collective) aims to provide the equipment and skills necessary for people to plant, care for, and harvest their very own produce at home. They are establishing several allotments both for teaching/community growing and to grow fresh produce for the Cherwell Larder.

Today we were working at one of the Harvest at Home growing spaces in North Kidlington. The plot is in a lovely meadow, with pigs foraging away in the far corner and rescue horses in the next field over. They have a no-dig gardening spot established (with the shed in place which we dismantled for transporting earlier in the year!), and our task was to plant up as many potatoes and onions as possible.

Mike took on the task of digging out the nettles around the water trough, and is probably going home with tingling hands as his gloves were no match for the determined stingers. Rachael, Ben and our new pal Wendy (a Cherwell Collective volunteer) kitted themselves up with egg trays - the perfect tool for onion planting - and got started on planting hundreds of onions and potatoes. Never one to pass up some wheelbarrow action I flitted between potato planting and transporting compost.

A couple of hours work made good in-roads in the planting, and we think we all avoided sunburn too.

Sunday fun in the sun.