Any Tater Takers?

There’s 50 Kg of spuds – a mixture of first and second earlies and main crop – available to a good home. To be collected Saturday morning (22nd May) South Leeds

message me or email tom@urbal.tv

Please download the map and flier to take with you here:
Feed Leeds Edible Open Gardens Map and Notes.

Edible Open Gardens webpage

We’re pleased to announce that Malcolm Fewston, Dairy Farmer, will be joining the panel.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feed-leeds-public-debate-could-leeds-feed-itself-tickets-16896518943

Hollin Lane Allotments are having a Plant Bring & Buy Sale on Sunday 31 May, starting at 11:00.  We are next to the Meanwood Valley Trail.  The main entrance is from the bottom of Hollin Drive LS16 5NE.  Veg seedlings, ornamentals, house plants, gardening stuff, delicious refreshments and more.  Everyone is welcome.

Project Manager wanted – 3 days a week for 18 months:

http://www.theurbanorchardproject.org/recruitment

Now planted up . Thanks to Caroline Scott and Rita Oldenburg from Bardon Grange, Mary Frankland and the Beckett Let’s Grow student union volunteers, Jo Jolley and Tom Bliss from Beckett landscape architecture dpt, Paul Akroyd and team from LCC Parks and Countryside and everyone else who stopped by to help dig and plant.

See: http://www.turnstone.tv/lecpocketbeds.html

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The next Bedford Fields workday is this coming Saturday 14th March.  See below for poster.

They have just installed the ‘Bedford Shed’, a new classroom on the site, and have made some ‘hugelbeds’ (long-term fertility raised beds), so there’s lots to see!  They now need to plant an edible landscape planting to screen the classroom from the south.  So it is interesting times, a good chance to learn about edible landscape planting, and trained fruit tree planting.

They are also looking for people who would like to get more involved with the project, so if you are interested in that please let them know.

Also there is some preparation to do before Saturday, so if anyone is available to help, especially this thursday or Friday, please let them know.

Venue – Shine, Harehills Road, LS8 (10.00-1.00)

Details yet to be confirmed, but this will be a very practical and useful workshop with lots of tips and expert advice from a top grower (who many will know from BBC Radio Leeds).

Suitable for new growers and experienced ones.

Places are limited so please let Back to Front know as soon as you can if you like to come! Make sure you put the date in your diary!

http://www.backtofront.org.uk/

Friends of Stank Hall in Beeston have finally received a licence to build an edible community garden, on the site of the oldest house in Leeds.

They are on the hunt for ground cover materials, paving slabs &wood for raised beds. They can’t dig due to site archaeology so are having to make sure the ground is covered securely and everything is in raised beds. Laying these is the first step. As this is how medieval gardens were built they are basing their design on 12thc kitchen gardens to stay in keeping with the site

If anyone is able to help, details of how to get to us are on thier website https://friendsofstankhallbarn.wordpress.com