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Our community allotment: Autumn equinox picnic

Despite the threats of thunder and heavy rain what a great morning it was enjoying our equinox picnic. People bought…

Brighton and Hove Organic Gardening, organic gardening, Our community allotment, Weald allotments

Growing with Camilla, Fred and Charlie: Part 3

Our very own ‘growing’ family share their latest learnings about keeping an organic veggie plot.  Camilla tells us what’s new:…

allotment, chard, family, first time gardeners, harvest, organic gardening, pumpkin, tomatoes, Weald Allotment

How To … Harvest and Store Onions

Earlier in the season we produced a short film on how to sow your onion sets and shallots.  Here’s the…

onion harvest and storage, stringing onions

Digging Green Gold

Green manures are a wonderful way of covering bare soil between crops and adding nutrients to your soil.  Here, Ruth…

beneficial insects, green manures, organic gardening, Organic weed control, soil fertility, soil nutrients

Saskia’s ‘Glutney’ Recipes

One of our favourite Weald chefs shares her (not-so-secret) recipes with us to help deal with the season’s gluts.  This…

apple chutney, food glut, glutney, harvest, harvest glut, tomato chutney

Scrumping & Scything: perfect autumn bedfellows

Adding further flavour to autumn, read on for how to scrump and scythe the Brighton Permaculture Trust way. Scrump: definition…

apple day, apples, harvest, scrumping, scything, stanmer park

Glorious Gluts!

The bounty of late Summer can be delightful, but can also create some problems of its own – how do…

autumn harvest, drying, fermenting vegetables, food glut, Food waste, freezing, harvest glut, jam, pickling, preserving vegetables

Welcoming Weeds

This week, Saskia – volunteer at our Weald Community Allotment – shares with us why sometimes it is worth making…

Eat weeds, foraging, green manures

Update on Comfrey Tea

A couple of months ago I wrote about my preparations for making comfrey ‘tea’: a highly nutritious plant feed, particularly…

comfrey, comfrey tea, organic plant feed, plant foods

Cram Full with Courgettes

We’re getting to that time of the summer when every trip to the plot is filled with trepidation: how many…

Courgette recipes, food glut, organic harvest, ratatouille, summer harvest

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  • Organic wine making workshop with Sue, 27 Sept 2025
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