One of our number is Mark who organises the Comedy Club at various times and venues in Dorchester. He decided he'd like to donate the profits from these to Transition Town Dorchester for use on its projects.
The first of these donations, a little over £1 000, was handed over at the Farm last weekend and is for use by/for the Farm or Orchard. SUPERB. Thanks, Mark. Keep up the good work.
Mark presenting the Cheque to Jenny - with a few hangers-on standing by!Ian
Published by Rentman 21st October 2010 | Community Farm, News | Comments Off
And a fine day it was, too.
About a dozen of us all turned out to mark out the areas on-site that had been agreed on the plan. We now have a good idea where the Chicken run, raised beds, polytunnel and pond are going.
The new gate has been installed, courtesy of The Duchy, along with a new fence on the east side of the site.
The bank to the east is mainly earth that has been deposited when the initial work at Poundbury started - and over the years its slipped a little, aided by some badgers and rabbits! Its taken maybe 10 years to push the old fence over. The new one is about 1 metre inside the old one.
The bank to the west has now been included into the site and this'll be good for bushes and small trees to coppice or crop as appropriate.
One needs to get one's priorities right, doesn't one.
Man with Tape Measure
Next planned workdays will be the weekend of the 13th and 14th November to get some paths installed and to plant 150 (yes 150) trees which have been donated by the Woodland Trust. Fancy a bit of hard graft for the Autumn? Come along.
There will be other workdays organised by individual groups and the first of these is this weekend when a few will be preparing the site for the chicken house. It's a bit uneven just there. They may even set the base ready for House construction. Help will always be welcome. Speak to Kathy or contact me via this post.
Ian
Published by Rentman 21st October 2010 | Community Farm, News | Comments Off
To help us understand the current picture about local food in the Dorchester area, we're running a short and anonymous survey. Can you spare us five minutes?
We now have a licence for the orchard land- which means it will be ours as soon as I get to meet the Network Rail man and he gives us the key!
We have already secured insurance and risk assessed it.
If you are interested it would be great to see you at our first Orchard Group meeting to discuss our first steps and plan a party! We have already arranged a farm meeting on the 12th October at 7.00pm at the Dorset County Museum and thought that the orchard group could come together there.
Tell anyone you think might be interested - not just in planning or physical labour but documenting through photographs or writing about and publicising the project. Please let me know if you are interested but unable to attend and I will continue to mail you.
- Jenny Shackleton
Published by Hedgewizard 3rd October 2010 | Events, Food Group, News, Projects | Comments Off
