Stepping Stones City Farm
I have been helping to run a series of workshops at Stepping Stones City Farm, in Stepney. The farm is undergoing all sorts of changes, and one of the things that they wanted to set up was a growing club. I was asked to come in to help run them. We had a great action day moving the polytunnel and getting lots of volunteers on broad, and planting some broad beans.
The first session we taught people how to make a sowing mix, plant broad beans. Everyone really got into it. Great to have scrummages for coir and naming of beans. Loved the enthusiasm. The next session was about propagating and crop rotation. So the last session, which was on Saturday, we planted up a rotation demonstration raised bed and did some sheet mulching.
I might be doing more workshops down there working with different community groups, which would be really exciting. Who knows what else will happen….