Down to Earth has began clearing a piece of land up at Selsley which we hope to use for growing commercial crops, training, and work experience opportunities. It's very over grown at the moment but we are slowly but surely clearing it each Monday morning. If anyone would like to come and join us they'd be [...]
Position Potatoes like to be in an open sunny site and will grow in most soil types without much effort. They like to be grown in soil that has been manured for a previous crop, or you can add your own compost the autumn before. Otherwise you can apply a nitrogen rich fertiliser in spring. Potatoes can also be a [...]
Another successful potato day and like last year's another half a ton of seed potatoes (that's over 3,300) were sold! There was a good stream of customers all day! Some were new to growing potatoes and others were old hands just looking for a new/different variety to try out. The first potato to sell out was the [...]
the potato was the first food ever to be grown in outer space. Astronauts took potato plants on space shuttle Columbia in 1995 to see if they could grow them in zero gravity. Thankfully for those who can’t live without real potatoes, the experiment was a successThere are only about 100 calories in an 8-ounce baked [...]
Down to Earth and Transition Stroud can be found behind mounds of seed potatoes on Saturday 4th February in Merrywalks Shopping Centre. It will be Stroud's second Potato day and if it goes as well as the first we hope it may become a well loved, firm, yearly tradition. We will have many varieties of seed [...]
So the New Year has begun and its back to business for Down to Earth. We're really excited about the projects we are getting going this year and hope more people will join us along the way.Stroud Potato Day - We're joining forces with Transition Stroud to bring to the community another Stroud Potato day on Saturday [...]