Bailey, Clare and Annie - Photographs courtesy of Simon Pizzey from Stroud Life Newspaper. . Norah with her mashed potato lemon cake, which is delicious! . Another successful Potato day! A big pat on the back for all Down to Earth and Transition Stroud Volunteers who made it happen. Hopefully most of [...]
Saturday 1st February, 10am - 3pm is our annual POTATO DAY at the Merrywalks shopping centre, in partnership with Transition Stroud. Come along and buy your tubers, ask questions, and try some potato cake All tubers once again provided by Dundry Nurseries - www.dundrynurseries.co.uk Varieties available will include: 1st Earlies: SWIFT, INTERNATIONAL KIDNEY, CASABLANCA, ROCKET, ARAN PILOT, COLLEEN [...]
Down to Earth has achieved so much with this project over the past couple of years. The list of products is fantastic and just goes to show the abundance of fruit there is within our district. A large proportion of work done on this project is carried out by volunteers, we hope this will change as [...]
By Fred . Water harvesting is invaluable, and winter is a good time to monitor a new system and assess how successful/workable it it. If you are harvesting rain that falls in the summer, you can help yourself through the dry July's and Augusts. . This is a rain water collection system made from materials that were found [...]
One Day you were planted: Who saw you grow? Whose hands were first to pick your fruits? And you grew, many springtimes sparkled through your boughs, where your blossoms floated; many summers where your fruit, ripened with the sun high over Stroud. Apple those beauty surely spanned two-world wars, standing like a handsome woman, with her [...]
Written by Fred When Amanda suggested growing potatoes and selling them, in a potato club, I had no idea we would have such a successful crop. Potatoes are an amazing gift from nature to us, bred over the millennia in the Andes by south American peoples, and then here. Packed with energy and goodness, a crop which stores well for [...]
Amanda is teaching a Community Composting for Local Food Groups course with the Community Composting Network in Nov/Dec The course will be running for 3 Fridays - Nov 22nd, 29th, Dec 6th and is being held at Cheltenham Community Composting site, Well Close House, Lansdown Parade, GL50 2LH More details about the course fee can be [...]
. I did not know, this old apple tree, existed until today, tucked away down Belle Vue Road, with Swifts Hill in sight. The old apple has, a cheerful blue banner, hung from its branches: Save The Apple Tree. and I can see, the hastily put together, platform wedged, in its crown. People are gathered, on [...]
Many of you will have heard of the Apple tree Protest in Stroud recently being as it was all over the local and regional news. Sadly the beautiful heritage bramley apple tree that occupied that spot in Belle Vue Road for over 75 years and also stood over a very impressive badger sett is no longer. [...]
from Amanda -Harvesting for our 'Keeping it Local' Fruit project is really picking up pace now. We've been lucky enough to be given plums, mirabellas, gooseberries, apples, figs, pears, and green tomatoes. Our first products have been made and are bagged up waiting to be labelled, ready for launch at Winterfest. The project is spreading it's [...]