Preparing for the plough

Allotment entry

An important moment - opening the door on the new allotment site - 3rd July 2010

Allotment entry

before the plough

Hello Folks,

The site will be ploughed Thursday evening - yay!

So, this is a call out for help to give the site a thorough comb over to remove bits that we don't want ploughed into the ground or to interfere with the plough. Also, we have more keys cut so we can distribute spares to those who haven't got one yet.

The group work date is Wednesday 18.00-21.00.

Hope to see you all there :)

Rhona


Secretary
Anstruther and District Allotments Association

anstrutherallotments.blogspot.com

http://fifefire.gov.uk/orgs/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&orgid=8D27299A-ABBB-6CC8-0220D0F2CC38016D

21st July update

Hi Everyone,

Site update: The weekend was fun and a lot was done. The group managed to clear and transport (thanks Kev) the worst of the cut weeds away from the site and on sunday the some of the sheds were moved and sorted. A few folk are planning to go to the site Thursday evening - 6pm till 9pm - all welcome to come along. Thursday evening tasks will be dealing with shed, and doing the clearing of mini bits and bobs (e.g. bricks, rubber, wire, wood, etc), this needs to be done before the plough can go in.

Plough man Douglas won't be in this weekend but hopefully he'll get in there sometime next week, most likely at the weekend.

There will be a work party day on saturday also, times tbc.

Regards,

Rhona

p.s. Has anyone seen Carl's pick axe, he cannae mind where he had it last on site..



Secretary
Anstruther and District Allotments Association

anstrutherallotments.blogspot.com

Allotment Websites

here are some allotments websites
http://www.fedaga.org.uk/ - Edinburgh Allotments
http://www.sags.org.uk/ - Scottish Allotments and gardens Society
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - www.farmgarden.org.uk
Allotments Regeneration Initiative (ARI) www.farmgarden.org.uk/ari

Department for Communities and Local Government - Allotments: a plot holders guide
Trellis Scotland http://www.trellisscotland.org.uk/home

Please post more if you find any

New Land

Hello Allotment folk,

We are getting on the land on Saturday 3rd July! You are duly invited to the site on Saturday, from 12noon, to meet fellow allotment folk and help (if possible) start clearing the land. Can we have a call of arms, scyths, rakes, strimmers, etc.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Kind regards,

Rhona


Location: Fenced horse field, North side, Dreel Burn. Access from track behind the post office depot.
Coordinates: 56.222818,-2.705405
Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=56.222818,-2.705405&sll=56.222765,-2.704911&sspn=0.005333,0.013711&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&ll=56.223457,-2.704053&spn=0.010665,0.027423&z=15&iwloc=near

Clearing the land

Next working days:
Wednesday evening 7pm onwards
Saturday 11am onwards

Tasks:
Continue cutting and removing overgrowth
Widen access path from Dreel (remove overgrowth)


If you could bring tools (shears, scyths, etc) with you that would be great; I'll try and source some too. Also, bring sun screen, hat, gloves, refreshment and boundless energy, if you can.


Regards,

Rhona

Secretary
Anstruther and District Allotments Association