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Sunday Events 2009



SUNDAY EVENTS 2009!

If you're interested, get in touch with one of the main volunteers at the greenhouses to say how you would like to be involved. Check back on this page for information and updates as the events take shape.

“Grow your own: It's not too late!” 30th August
Event focussed on what you can still plant this late in the year.

“Tomatos, Chillis and Salsa”
20th September

“Grapes and Vines"
27th September

“Cucumber and Chinese Vegetables”
11th October

“Apples and orchard fruits”
25th October

“Pumpkin soup, garlic and broad beans”
1st November

“Composting and preparing your garden for winter”
22nd November

“Christmas Bazaar”
13th December
Suggestions welcome. Calendars for sale, exhibitions, postcards ...

TASK LIST FOR EVERY EVENT

Things that need to be done by someone willing... Involving community groups - Contacting different groups to take part - Organising their involvement (e.g. recipes, running a stall...) Signage, info and “window dressing”
- Deciding what signs/leaflets/decorations needed for the day
- Making it!

Publicity
- Press releases to local papers
- Posting on local internet forums
- Designing and distributing posters/leaflets
- Getting people there!

Preparing the site
- Health and safety checks
- Tidying the site to receive a larger number of visitors

Harvesting and food preparation
- Includes buying in/collecting supplementary crops and seeds

Volunteer Manager
- Forming a small team in advance
- Deciding on tasks to be done
- Overseeing the day and assigning tasks

Recipes
- Collating
- Printing

Money/sales
- Working the till
- Keeping records

Catering
- Gathering equipment
- Cooking it on the day
- Appointed “food hygiene supervisor”

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Introductory walk around the greenhouses...

Scroll down a bit further for a map!


Front Gate Area

- The solid-looking black noticeboard belongs to the council but is designated for use by the greenhouses. There are five other noticeboards around the park where notices and posters can be pasted. These are the only places in the park outside the greenhouses where we're allowed to put signage.
- There is a small "bed" there in which some eye-catching plants could be put in (Fabrice wishes the recycling bin wasn't… Continue

Posted on July 26, 2009 at 10:30pm —

Louis

Sunday 26th July

The gardens are in full bloom. If you haven't seen the site – right in the middle of Brockwell park – now is the time to come and visit. Have a potter around the gardens, buy some fresh veg, or even pick up a spade and join in!


Enormous rainbow chard in vivid yellows and reds, mottled pumpkins, polka dot potatos, furry pears in muted autumn greens and browns, tomatos in shapes and sizes you won't find in the supermarket, luminous courgettes, sunflowers, black maize for the South American… Continue

Posted on July 26, 2009 at 10:24pm —

Louis

Sunday 12th July

The first courgettes were cut today, striped dark and creamy greens under their sprawling leaf umbrellas. Courgettes can be amazingly productive during summer. They are apparently a member of the genus “Cucurbita” that also includes marrows, pumpkins and squashes, but unlike these other fruits, they are harvested and eaten before the skin becomes hardened into a tough rind. In summer, as their yellow flowers curl in the sun, a courgette patch may have fruit ready every week.


The harveste… Continue

Posted on July 13, 2009 at 11:30am —

Louis

Sunday 5th July

The pumpkin plants have reached a tipping point since being shown the soil a few weeks ago and are starting to explode. Other plants have already grown beyond edible rescue, including some bolting spinach in the upper plot and some tree spinach with purple tinted leaves in the kitchen garden. Sweet peas are winding their way upwards towards the branches of the trees and the courgette plants have also benefitted from the heat. Now homeless, a small collection of bees are buzzing around a pile of… Continue

Posted on July 6, 2009 at 11:00am —

Louis

Sunday 21st June

There's still a rush to plant all the seedlings in time to catch the sun and bear fruit. Pumpkins and squashes have now gone into tractor tyre-sized rounds of earth outside the main greenhouse, held together with plastic chicken wire. Adolescent tomatos with bitter smells from their green stalks and resolutely delicate leaves are soaking and sweetening in the sun in the main greenhouse. The maize has been planted in the raised beds and sunflowers will be following soon, while the shady seating a… Continue

Posted on June 28, 2009 at 10:26pm —

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At 11:25pm on January 26, 2010, Mike Wohl said…
Hi,
Do you have recommendations about Public Liability Insurance?....I paid £180 last season ( covering around 30 growers, chidren and up to three special events a year), but due to the forthcoming extra strands of work in the pipeline this may go up. My current company is Tennyson. Thanks
At 12:51pm on July 2, 2009, Marco Windham said…
Well done Louis I'm very impressed...
At 10:32pm on June 28, 2009, Linda Tibbetts said…
Wow. Good work Louis!!

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Currently thinking along the lines of "what do I do about all this community growing climate change etc stuff?"
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Lobbying, Gardening
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Psychological therapies and research
A bit of playing music
1 pot of mixed leaf salad on my balcony
 
 
 

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