by The Crossing | Aug 10, 2013 | Blog
This summer working with Biologic Design, we created a whole site water management system with swales created along the contours. This will grow into a resilient landscape, both drought tolerant and flood resistant. Snaps of the...
by The Crossing | Aug 5, 2013 | Blog
After a big push in the winter and cold spring to prepare the 48 beds, put up the polytunnel, start our seedlings off and then transplant, we are finally reaping rewards for all the hard work. And what a reward! Despite the heavy clay soil and late cold spring we are...
by The Crossing | Jun 17, 2013 | Blog
What a relief a when spring decided to show her face this April and what a show she put on! Our greenhouse full of seedlings struggling in sub-5’C temperatures finally put on the spurt we needed and the garden changed to a distinctly joyful shade of green! The...
by The Crossing | Apr 2, 2013 | Blog
How we made a huge saving on our own home-made polytunnel Take three old gazebo frames, some coppice poles, a large sheet of tough polymaterial, some willing friends to help out.. and hey presto! Your very own home-made greenhouse. When my parents offered us some old...
by The Crossing | Mar 23, 2013 | Blog
Bo and Rebecca mark out the veggie beds for the coming season, planning to use the BIO-INTENSIVE METHOD With hopes of setting up a Community Supported Agriculture scheme this year at The Crossing, we set about marking out the area for growing vegetables. Bracing the...
