Who says Sundays are for lie-ins ?

Here are some photos from our first proper Sunday session with a bunch of brand new gardeners. Here you can see us getting ready to sow some spring wheat, we are hoping to follow the bread making process from seed to sandwich.

We have marked out and sown 6 sq metres of wheat from which we hope to harvest enough grain to produce 6 loaves of bread, I will blog further on this process as the season progresses.

You can also see Marnie and Claire sowing some seeds in the polytunnel and of course we had some tea and Lee had baked some lovely cake which I only got a small slice of, but I will let them off with this because they are new.

New Beginnings

Here are a couple of shots from our first official session of 2011. Even though some of us have been getting together to do some work at the site in preparation, the first sessions started last weekend.

We have a Friday group this year made up mainly of people who were involved last year plus 4 or 5 new participants, we also have a Sunday group made up of people who are completely new to the project. We all got together to meet each other for the first time or to reacquaint ourselves and to go over some details of what the garden is all about. We also managed to squeeze in some gardening and of course some tea and biscuits.

The photo at the top will give you an idea of the space we have to work with. We should have around 30 people of all ages and abilities sharing this space, growing veggies and flowers sharing the workload and having a bit of fun at the same time.