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Weather holds for Harvest Supper Celebrations

1/22/2019

7th September 2018

It was a lovely warm dry evening, last Friday night, when a lively group of regular volunteers and Friends of Stonehill Community Garden gathered to celebrate the harvest.

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Looking back at our third growing season

1/22/2019

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2018 was our third growing season and saw the garden flourish in many ways! We hope you will enjoy hearing about all that's happened over this last year.

Thanks to the dedicated work of volunteers, the Stonehill Community Garden team and workshop participants this year, we have:

Created a herb garden
Grown, harvested and enjoyed hundreds of delicious fruits, vegetables and herbs
Created two small ponds (one of which housed tadpoles which were kindly donated to us!)
Built an outdoor kitchen shelter (which shelters the rocket stove and cob oven)
Planned and created a young 'Edible Forest'
Attended two events in Abingdon where we spread the word and sold tomato plants (and has since led to 6 new volunteers coming along!)
Hosted our annual Harvest Meal
Re-homed 4 more ex-battery hens
Extended the plot and created a new chicken run
Survived extreme weather conditions
Secured more funding

The diversity of our visitors has also grown, from the ladies of "Drayton Wives" to the "Community Payback Scheme" workers, as well as our long term groups; we’ve continued to build strong ties with Style Acre, Kingfisher School, South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance (SOFEA) and DAMASCUS youth club. Each group and every individual meet, work and relax together each week. We talk and share a sandwich and a cup of tea while reconnecting with nature and the outdoors.

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