Our Community Sundays are a great way to meet your fellow plotters and our volunteers and enjoy a good blether while we get some site-wide tasks done.
This Sunday we hope to:
We hope you will be able to come along and lend a helping hand.
After the long Covid break, it was great to have the wonderful Kaimhill kids back visit with us along with Captain Grow, aka Peter (Plot 29).
Thanks go to Hazel, Anne, Steve, Raymond, Ron and Norman for hosting groups on their plots and to Mr Skinley and his colleagues for taking the kids along to us.
The kids return on Tuesday 9 May and then for the next six weeks or so at the same times. If you can spare an hour or so between 13.00 and 14.20 and would be willing to have the kids visit on your plot we would love to hear from you.
We were all disappointed to find that our local supply of cow dung had dried up – so to speak! We are investigating alternatives which can be delivered in bigger tonnages – of domestic green waste compost and/or manure.
The scrapping of the containers from site produced a one-off windfall for GFAA funds and we hope to make around four barrowloads of dung and/or domestic green waste compost available free of charge to GFAA members.
We fear demand my outpace supply, so requests will be fulfilled on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
If you are interested, please leave a comment below this post with your name and plot number. The compost/dung will be delivered to your plot once it is available. This may take a few weeks to organise. Bear with us.
If things work out and there is enough interest we may try to repeat this exercise.
We are delighted to acknowledge the generous support of Scotmid’s Community Orchard Scheme that allowed GFAA to purchase 5 new fruit trees for our site. Thanks also go to our volunteer squad who recently completed the planting.
Last Friday also saw preparations for the installation of our new cabin take a step forward with the start of the container removal exercise. A big thanks to all those who cleared their containers to allow this to proceed and of course Scottish Government’s Just Transition Fund which provided the funding for the cabin.
Thanks to everyone, plotters, volunteers, friends, nursery staff and kids and ACC staff who managed along to help and encourage and so contributed to a very safe and successful bonfire day.
All photo credits Phil (P57)
It’s Garthdee Fields’ annual bonfire tomorrow – Tuesday 21 March 2023. If you have any available time to help feed the flames between 10.00 and 14.00 it will be very much appreciated. Very old clothes and gloves are essential.
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