We welcomed Miss Rennie and her wonderful Primary 3 stars today and a good time was had by all. Even the weather behaved!
We are already looking forward to more visits in the new term. If you could spare an hour of your time as a pupil guide, please let Stuart, Gill or Norman know.
Today’s Community Sunday activities involved dodging the weather quite a bit, but thanks to a good turnout we still got a lot done and everyone enjoyed themselves.
Thanks to everyone you managed along – and especially the flan, cake and scone bakers who excelled themselves today. Scrumptious! Our next Community Sunday is scheduled for 19 July – pop it in your diary now!
I think we can claim today’s visit by pupils from Kaimhill Primary was enjoyed by all, although Gill, Jacqui and I needed to go lie down in a darkened room for an hour or so afterwards! Thanks go to Mrs McKenzie and her team for all their help on the day.
Cath Pilley has been in touch with an update on The Allotment Market Stall (TAMS) for the coming season.
GFAA has had success in two bids to Aberdeen City Council for funds to support new developments around our site. The monies will go towards improvements in the general amenities for all members in the years ahead.
As we will be participating in the Its Your Neighbourhood Programme in the coming year, ACC has agreed to contribute £400 towards the purchase of Public Liability Insurance, paving slabs, sand, greenhouse staging and hand-tools for use with the Community Garden Poly-tunnel. This will allow us to set the Poly-tunnel up to support wider use by groups and individuals for classes, workshops and communal growing activities, e.g. for pupils visiting from Kaimhill Primary School and within the RGU Community Garden and Student Plot projects.
ACC have also awarded us £400 from their Small Projects Fund to help with the purchase and construction of Larch composting bins to be used in connection with our new Dry Composting Toilet and for the purchase of associated signage and information boards.
We are obviously delighted with this continuing support from Aberdeen City Council as we try to develop our site and its amenities and widen community participation and knowledge of the health and environmental benefits of working a plot.
Thanks go to Stuart for alerting me to this good news story.
Thanks go to Bruce Taylor for alerting me to this study.
Aberdeen University has announced it has researchers taking part in a national survey of the New Zealand Flatworm‘s spread and its effects on our gardens, plots and fields.
As we know the Flatworms kill our native earthworms, but the university site contains some truly gruesome details about how they go about their murdersome business and how difficult they are to eradicate once they get established. It appears that the flatworms can reduce to 10% of their body weight for up to a year as they await another earthworm dinner. Perhaps the weight-loss industry ought to be sponsoring this survey!
More details, including how you can participate, are available via these links:
Aberdeen University Research Press Release
National Flatworm Research Project
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