It’s great to be able to make our lunches using produce that we’ve picked from the plot! Rhubarb is the obvious one, and both Saturday...

Our sessions at Annie's Place for Derby Umbrella have been a little delayed, so rather than planting seeds, we've been looking at edible...

Our next art project is more 3D work. Over lockdown, our online art sessions concentrated on painting and drawing, so it's good to get...

After spending a few sessions using tesserae to make mosaics, we've gone a bit more industrial now, and are using pebbles and cement! The...

Since we've been able to have people on site at the allotment again, we've been very busy! With willow leftover from our sessions with...

Our second session of forest school this year was a bit colder than the first, as the sun stayed behind the clouds. The trees are still...

It was a beautiful afternoon to have the first of our forest school sessions since mid-December. The group is slightly smaller than...

Just as spring is really starting to spring, we are allowed to have our groups back at the allotment, which is wonderful! We've started...

Because it wasn’t raining, and the ground wasn’t flooded, and the ground wasn’t frozen...we did some more outside jobs at the main...

Over the past few weeks, we've been doing lots of jobs on the allotment. Despite the mud, rain, snow and ice, there's been plenty to do!...

We were going to be doing some cooking at forest school this week, but all that's on hold of course! So we thought we'd share the recipe...

Our first sessions of 2021 were icy! The muddy ground was hard, which made a lovely change- although it was soft enough underneath the...

Our final session before Christmas consisted of re-building the dam at Clay Cove, some whittling projects, and hot dogs! And lots of...

There’s been plenty of rain...so it was muddy and excitingly slippery in the woods! As well as a bit of teacake-toasting, we were making...

For the last two sessions before Christmas we will be all-out Christmas crafting... This week, it was making beautiful 3D paper stars-...

Despite our new camp being a quite sparse (the other camp is just far too muddy!), we are adapting well! And most importantly, the camp...

The weather might be pretty grotty at the moment, but we find plenty to do on the allotment... We try to keep a balance of more...

We’ve been looking at different foraged foods over the last few weeks- walnuts, quinces, and this week, apples. We learnt a bit about...

Our one to one sessions have involved more activities in the greenhouse, as the weather has been a bit too wet over the last few weeks!...

Despite the weather becoming a bit grey and damp as we get towards winter, we still have lots of jobs to do on the allotment. Today, we...