Foxfield is going from strength to strength, and has been a hive of activity this year so far. This spring all the beds are under cultivation already, with more takers than ever, and some new folk have got involved. Colin, Lindsay, Mal and Nigel have been great in clearing the weeds from around the raised beds, creating flower borders and other things, and Andy in particular has been fantastic in clearing the back corner with days and nights of stick burning and bush clearing. He has also…

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HELP need to change my email from this site and cant work out how to :(

leighanne.hunter@virginmedia.com 

wood bark should be arriving next week, unsure of which day but will keep everyone up to speed, hoping for a fri evening so we can make lighthands good work. 

Andy (head scavenger)

 

Hi Folks, There's a new course for 'Grow your Own' starting again on the 7th April, Saturday at 'SOL' site,

Dickson street, Leith. Classes start at 11am and go through to 1pm. It's just round the corner from Foxfield, so feel free to come along. The course runs for 6 weeks and is £36 for the course- although, if anyone has already been on one of the courses via ECBA, then you can drop into sessions on an ad-hoc basis and just pay- as-you-go.

We cover all the basics…

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Hi Foxfielders, just to say that October's Gardeners Blog is on the Dig for Victory site just now and to also invite you to a  'garden pests and diseases' workshop at SOL garden this thursday between 6 and 7 pm. The session fee is a mere £3 and it would be great to catch up with you all. Hope the site is going well ,Best Wishes Joanna

Hi Folks,  No interested respondees for tonight's Harvest workshop which needs 5 confirmed people to be viable so workshop will be re-scheduled. I'm re-thinking the advertising of the workshops so that I can reach many more participants. I'll get back to everyone with  more dates of workshops and where they'll be advertised. I'll also host and be self-employed at the sites so that no-one from Foxfield  or any site needs to be present and doesn't have to feel responsible for attending at any… Continue

As you probably know, ECBA has lost funding and has requested for us to take responsibility to keep this Foxfield Ning site going. So, if you're not a member yet, but have enjoyed reading the blog posts and would like to keep it going, please contact Tom Gardner via his inbox, and he will give you some more information on how to contribute.

Thanks,

Jill Richardson

Hi Folks. A big thank you to all of you who came out into Foxfield and made Friday’s meeting a success. Following a brief discussion of ECBA and its various aspects, a quick talk about Foxfield, a brief discussion of the AGM - with a few welcome interjections from Greg Robertson regarding the future website set up, the tool depot on Dalmeny Street and some background on the forest garden amongst other things, we were able to get down to business and do some real forward planning for our…

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Thanks again to everyone from our backgreen who helped out on Sunday afternoon to take down most of our monster laurel hedge. It was only 4 years ago it was trimmed to about 4 ft, but since then it had grown to a 12-15 ft high, 6ft deep monster. Six of us worked to cut it down to almost ground level, dismember all the branches and separate the useful firewood from the leafy stuff. We then formed a chain-gang to stack all the debris back along the fence, with the wood on top where it can be…

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Hi to everyone at Foxfield! Great to meet you all on Thursday, 7th at the meeting at your Backgeen. The Backgreen looks great, a really welcoming space. Thankyou to Jill for the delicious homebaking, I skipped home with that chocolate brownie! Just to remind everyone that there is a workshop at SOL, Sunshine On Leith Gardens in Dickson Street on Thursday, 14th July. We're looking at Green Manure Crops and running through garden tool identification and usage, The class is 7 til 9 pm, and I'm… Continue