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Selsley growing scheme May update

By |2022-05-05T09:26:03+01:00May 5th, 2022|Categories: Allotments, Food, Friends, Fruit and veg, Gardening, Grow your own, Volunteering|

Back again after a week away for a bank holiday and the growing area looks very green and abundant - even if it's bluebells. This week there were only 5 of us with a quick visit from Jane at the end looking very much like a lady gardener. We planted more potatoes. If in doubt, plant [...]

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Selsley Growing scheme March Update

By |2022-03-21T09:26:47+00:00March 21st, 2022|Categories: Allotments, Food, Friends, Fruit and veg, Gardening, Grow your own, Selsley, Stroud, Volunteering|

Fortunately no rain last week but cold again. I was greeted with a tree pushed over by storm Eunice (or her brother) so Jane and Steve got to work chopping up branches for fire wood. We planted onions and beans and generally tidied up the various rows. Fiona spent some time in the green house, planting [...]

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Seed Saving Workshop for Oakridge Parochial School in Stroud

By |2019-10-04T16:33:18+01:00October 4th, 2019|Categories: Allotments, Food, Seed Bank, Stroud|

A group of inspiring young seed savers at Oakridge Parochial School in Stroud took part in a seed saving workshop with our own Stroud Community Seed Bank recently. Collecting no less than 9 varieties of seed, they have seen the full loop from seed to plant to seed. Apart from now being able to rely on [...]

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Churchdown GP Surgery in Gloucester to Get the Down to Earth Treatment!

By |2019-07-04T12:33:39+01:00July 4th, 2019|Categories: Allotments, Food, Fruit and veg, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Grow your own, Uncategorized, Volunteering|

We're delighted to announce that we have been given the go ahead to develop the land around Churchdown GP Surgery in Gloucester! We will be setting up allotments and a raised bed community growing scheme just as we have at Vale Community Hospital in Dursley. We will also be improving the flower beds, maintaining the grounds [...]

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Art on the Plot: New Sculpture for Vale Community Hospital Allotment Scheme

By |2018-07-04T16:04:35+01:00June 29th, 2018|Categories: Allotments, Vale Hospital Allotments|Tags: , |

Two years after the first ground was broken at the Vale Community Hospital allotment site, a sculpture has been installed to celebrate its progress. The completed piece When the community hospital in Dursley, Gloucestershire, was designed and built 10 years ago, art was commissioned as an integral part of the capital project. Part NHS [...]

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Selsley Community Growing Scheme Updates

By |2018-05-31T17:54:45+01:00November 7th, 2017|Categories: Allotments, Grow your own, Selsley, Stroud|Tags: |

This season has seen a great deal of abundance up at Selsley allotments, with a succession of both fruit and vegetable crops being harvested every week. From courgettes, potatoes, chard and tomatoes to raspberries, apples and blackcurrants, volunteers have been able to take away full bags of fresh, healthy and organically grown produce. Best of all [...]

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Vale Hospital Allotments Workshops in 2017

By |2017-08-04T13:08:31+01:00August 4th, 2017|Categories: Allotments, Grow your own, Vale Hospital Allotments|Tags: |

We've got an exciting range of workshops for our allotment holders at Vale Community Hospital coming up this autumn: Permaculture Your Plot with Helen Pitel Thursday 14th September 7-9pm at GL11 in Cam Lots of new ideas for pest control, companion planting, rotations and fertility building the permaculture way, and making the gardening easier too! Spend [...]

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Selsley Community Growing Scheme Spring 2017

By |2017-05-16T19:29:17+01:00May 16th, 2017|Categories: Allotments, Food, Fruit and veg, Gardening, Grow your own, Selsley|Tags: , |

A small group of volunteers look after this community growing scheme on the side of a hill in the beautiful parish of Selsley near Stroud. We meet weekly as a group and always have a long 'to do' list which includes maintenance, clearing, preparing and planting and this spring has been busier than ever. So far [...]

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Down to Earth Stroud Newsletter 2016

By |2017-04-13T20:35:02+01:00April 13th, 2017|Categories: Allotments, Fruit and veg, Gardening, Grow your own, Seed Bank, Selsley, Stroud, Vale Hospital Allotments|Tags: , |

Welcome to the Down to Earth Stroud newsletter for 2016. We had another very busy year with the launch of two fantastic new projects plus the growth and development of several others. Here’s a brief summary of some of our key moments and achievements from 2016. Please see our website for more details and photos and [...]

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The inaugural wassail at Vale Community Hospital, Dursley

By |2017-02-22T20:13:17+00:00February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Allotments, Food, Fruit and veg, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Grow your own, Vale Hospital Allotments|Tags: , , , |

We have been a-wassailing! The inaugural Vale wassail was held on Sunday 19th February 2017 attended by around 30 locals including the Mayor of Dursley, Cllr Neil Grecian at the allotments and orchard we installed almost a year ago at Vale Community Hospital in Dursley. Led by wassail master Steve Rowley, the event began with a [...]

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