Communigrow
An interview with Clair Evans, a grower at Communigrow
“At home you only grow what you eat really. There’s no point growing things you don’t eat. Whereas here, we grow everything we can. It’s like a community allotment.”
March 2022
Meet the team – An interview with David Jeffrey, Horticultural Leader at Communigrow
‘It doesn’t matter what experience you have, you may not have any experience in gardening, but you can still learn and you can still teach others, because you may have a skill that comes in that they haven’t thought of.”
April 2022
Communigrow Stories – Improving Wellbeing
“Enjoyment of meeting new people, learning new things. Making new friends gets harder as you get older & this group whilst all being quite different from each other are friendly and welcoming”
February 2022
Meet The Team – An interview with Amy Simon, one of the most kind and generous volunteers we have at Communigrow.
“Volunteering with Communigrow has absolutely reinforced my interest in gardening and growing.”
December 2021
Meet The Team – An interview with Claudia Hebblewhite, one of our most versatile volunteers.
“Whether you are thinking about volunteering in the field or volunteering remotely, Communigrow has been an amazing experience allowing me to learn from like-minded people and has taught me so many valuable skills.”
September 2021
Meet The Team – An interview with Lauren Parker, one of our committed volunteers.
“One of the favourite things I have learnt through volunteering with Communigrow is the idea of a community being able to come together to create amazing things.”
July 2021
Meet The Team – An interview with Charley Pope, one of our talented volunteers.
“Having the opportunity to help at the field as well as create Communigrow’s recipes, I have such a wonderful insight into the seasonal food and then taking it and making something delicious with it. I think more and more people are starting to realise how wonderful that journey is. ”
May 2021
Meet the team Charley
The past few Mondays have been all go in the seed sowing department. From preparing the beds to the actual seed sowing.
A few weeks ago now we started off with some onion and garlic sets. Onion varieties such as Red Baron and Centurion to a bright Pink Panther are beginning to poke through only a few weeks later. And these are just the sets. The seeds in the greenhouse are all looking incredibly well and will be planted out in a few weeks time. Safe to say there will be plenty of onions to go round.
Learning how to use the rotavator has been a bit of an adventure and incredibly satisfying. There’s no need to go to the gym when rotavating is on the cards. It’s a brilliant transformation taking the beds and preparing them for the growing season ahead.
Parsnips have also gone in, ready for their long growing season ahead. The first frosts later in the year should help enhance their flavour, ready for Christmas! Carrots have also been sown alongside spring onions. The spring onions have been strategically planted nearby to hopefully help deter carrot fly.
The final project started this week has been the ‘Moon Bed’. A bed that is going to be solely devoted to planting according to the moon phases. Simply put, the idea behind this is that fruit and vegetables that bear crops above ground perform better during certain phases of the moon, with bulbs and vegetables that bear crops below ground performing better during other phases. Watch this space as the moon bed develops!
-Charley (Social Media Volunteer)
Meet The Team – An interview with Clair Evans, one of our brilliant growers here at the Communigrow field.
“There is definitely no typical day! From raking stones to building bird boxes, who knows what a day at Communigrow will hold?!”
March 2021
Meet the team Clair
Giving discarded materials an inspiring second life – Written by Julia C. with inputs from Maria, Clair and David.
At Communigrow, we care about land and nature conservation, as well as wellbeing and we are proudly
reusing and recycling where we can. Recently we have realised just how many projects around the field
were possible thanks to reused materials!
February 2021
Giving discarded materials an inspiring second life