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Check out this great site and blog - all about finding, mapping and picking fruit on public land.....http://theurbaneforager.blogspot.com/

The main site is here...  http://urbaneforager.btck.co.uk/

Richard

Astonishing.



Excellent organic vegetables and fruit; plus salads, herbs and pot plants.  Many thanks to the ever sharp-eyed and industrious Sarah F for her original posting New Farm Shop - which, as I've prepared this posting, has attracted some most useful comments - do check it out for the latest news.…

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A New Forest Nutritionist's Tour of New Forest Weekend Farmer's Markets

We went on an eat local, grow local, buy local october-fest this weekend. We visited Sunnyfields organic farm Saturday producers market, Lymington… Continue

My children used to love this book, its called Eddie's Garden and how to make things grow. If you are thinking of planting beans, pumpkins, flowers, carrots etc.. this book really inspires, and so does Eddie's little sister Lily!

Another favourite of mine is the Enormous Turnip. You can buy a book, or even have it read on line at the BBC…

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It was such a rank day yesterday that Sue and I bit the bullet and had a purge on our assorted boxes of veg and flower seeds. Some of the seeds had sell-by dates going back 5 or 6 years! What a relief to get shot of so many half used, mouse-nibbled, sunlight-faded packs of faded potential - but sad too because we threw out many tens of ££ value and the resource had been wasted.



The main reasons the seeds didn't get sown was the number in each packet and also the short viability of… Continue

Ok - the trees have arrived and they're ready for collection! See pic above at one of the distribution points. There's been quite a lot of interest from the media so hopefully we should get some good coverage.



For those taking part here are the 'instructions' from the BBC in order to make sure they can achieve the world record for the most number of trees planted in one hour.....PLEASE ALSO ADD A COMMENT WITH A PHOTO TO THIS BLOG POST… Continue