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Ally’s Blogs

Carry on Composting & Wild Garlic and Nettle Fritters

Check out Ally’s latest post on composting and a recipe for Wild Garlic and Nettle Fritters: What could be better on a much needed rainy afternoon than foraging for Ramsons (wild garlic) and nettles to make tasty spring-green fritters! Having

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Earth’s Green Milk – a Tonic for Spring

Read some of Ally’s latest blog on Earth’s Green Milk – a Tonic for Spring: “The days are growing longer and brighter as the Fire in the Sky waxes and the days are still cold. Taking care of our health

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Elder at the Autumn Equinox

Read some of Ally’s latest blog on Elder at the Autumn Equinox: The Autumn Equinox falls between 20th and 23rd September in the Northern Hemisphere.  This is a time for taking stock, garnering our harvest, thanks-giving and pausing.  All of

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Community & Gratitude for Wild Greens

Read some of Ally’s latest blog dealing with Community & Gratitude for Wild Greens: What extraordinary, challenging and creative times we live in!  Over the last few weeks life as we knew it has been turned upside down as the

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Wild Edges

Ally’s latest blog begins: With a month to go before the Spring Equinox on the Celtic calendar and with so much flood water covering much of the allotment site over the last few months, my attention has been taken to

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Haws, Hips & Elder

Ally’s October blog begins: “The autumn equinox, the second harvest on the Celtic wheel of the year which powered through our lives recently along with a full moon, is a time for gathering, preparing for winter, celebrating our harvest and

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The Blue of Borage

Ally’s monthly blog for August starts, “As July rolls into lazy August and the Celtic festival of the first harvest of ‘Lammas’ shines upon us, I delight in both the sight and taste of the blue of borage flowers. Borage

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Leaves, Blossoms & Petals

This month’s article from Ally gives us plenty of ideas of what to do with foraged leaves and flowers.  See the full article with composting tips and recipes here.

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Of interest to members …

Two items from members that may be of interest this month.  Firstly an article on why gardens don’t need pesticides – which is timely following the AGM discussion around the use of chemicals on allotments. The second is an article

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