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Ditch your old plastic bags and smile, smile, smile.
Make your own shopping bags and ditch some of that plastic. Come along and join us at the Maltings this Saturday. We will be upstairs in the Courtyard Kiln from 10am to 4pm. We have plenty of fabric to chose from but if you have some that you would like to use or donate to the project then bring it along.
Drop in anytime; no need to book. Stay for as long or as little as suits you.
Don’t know how to sew? No worries; we know someone who does. Come along and learn a new skill.
https://farnhammaltings.com/events/morsbags-make-a-bag-community-event/
< Click through for the full-sized poster.
Seedling Swap event at Alton Local Food
Our neighbours at ALFI are holding a Seedling Swap on the weekend before our Open Day:
Saturday 11 May, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., as part of the Craft Market, probably in Cross and Pillory.
Please bring your seedlings to swap or come and choose some for a donation. Spread the word and come along to make this the best annual Seedling Swap ever!
Open Day and Plant Sale, Sat. 18 May
We have a wonderful collection of salvaged plants that are being nurtured for the plant sale – the nursery is now looking healthy. Make a note of the date – Saturday 18th May.
Planting seeds in the lovely warm productive factory this week has been inspiring and I’m sorting seeds this weekend 
Last year we grew seedlings in the factory for the sale but this year there will not be room as we need to stock the fields. Some of you have already kindly offered to sow seeds at home. THANK YOU.
The more we have, the more we can sell.
Morsbags – Mors the Merrier
We have been keeping busy whilst the ground is frozen.
Something a little different than harvesting/weeding/sowing …. a group of volunteers from FLF have just started making “morsbags”. We are getting together with our sewing machines and making fabric shopping bags from recycled or surplus material. We are then giving these away to help reduce the number of plastic carrier bags in use. Continue reading
Help Build a Pizza Cob Oven
Fancy getting re-skilled using traditional cooking technology? Learn how to make and use a pizza cob oven with natural materials. Visit our site at Runfold St George most Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 22nd Jan to 14th Feb.
Click the thumbnail to download the full-sized poster as a PDF.
FLF Volunteering News – Jan 2013
The official Winter season volunteering start date is Tuesday 15th January (and Thursday.)
However, after spying Sarah K busily weeding at Runfold yesterday I would like to let you all know that if the call of the veg patch beckons then please feel welcome to go along to either site if the feeling takes you; any time is fine. There is always weeding, strolling about dreaming, huddling around the fire in the yurt to be done.
Guest post – its a fluffy fashionable farnham foods
Weighing the carrots
I have been kindly invited to ‘guest blog’ on this FLF site but I will keep it quite brief with just a couple of pictures sprinkled in.
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Warmth for the Yurt!
Huge thanks to Keith Mitchell, master chimney sweep and proprietor of nearby Seale company Brush Strokes (01252 783456) for giving us not just with a wood-burning stove but also supplying and fitting a chimney for it. We have warmth in the yurt at last.
Will we ever get the volunteers out onto the field on a cold, damp Tuesday or Thursday? Watch this space.
Please be aware that both the stove and the chimney pipe get very hot when the stove is on. If anyone has a spare all-round fireguard we would be most interested to hear from you.
So long as we avoid setting fire to the roof, we will prove that, when it comes to keeping the rain out and the warmth in, “You can have your cape and heat it.”
David
Chard recipe
Sarah K. has come up with an enthusiastic recipe for Swiss Chard, as grown on a rooftop in Brooklyn, Manhattan. It looks remarkably similar to ours but the roofs don’t! Follow the link to Anastasia’s Fridge, across the pond…
Chard and Chickpea Stew
pp. Sarah