What would Dr Who say? Thanks to Parks, veg is sprouting out all over Leeds: “Educate! Educate!” (And harvest at will)

These chaps are guarding the door to St Johns Church, next to the St Johns Centre.

This was a great success, with people visiting edible gardens right across Leeds, on the 7th of June 2015.

More here

The committee (plus two) have been getting their hands dirty planting up the tubs in City Square. Many thanks to Feed Leeds /LCC Parks’ Paul Ackroyd for making the beds and some of the plants available, and for Feed Leeds/Bardon Grange’s Caroline Scott for the rest. Signs will be installed shortly.

Click to download the press release here: Feed Leeds City Veg Beds Press Release 11 06 15

See http://feedleeds.org for more

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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