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It's one of my favourite times of year that all of us look forward to on the shared patches with friends and family. Despite the "iffy" Summer, does this stop us enjoying the final harvest? No, I think not. There's just about enough left to pick in the garden, forage in the hedgerows and even have a go a planting some tasty things. It's been a brilliant harvest out of our three shared...

I suppose this is a general comment at this time of year but I hate to waste apples.  Anyone in the area that needs some apples please get in touch

Apples ripe and ready and need picking and storing but who's going to it??? And how????

Hi all, First of all thanks have to go out to Eve and Marcus, because without them i wouldn't be writing this, so thank you Eve and Marcus. They have let me and a couple of friends have access to use their land to grow fruit and veggie’s, along with top fruits and possibly sometime next year a couple of pigs. Hence my name of “cidernribs”. I’m starting this blog more for...

There's a really interesting article in the Mail Online today by Jay Rayner, the presenter of the up-coming series Food: What Goes in Your Basket on Channel 4. Raynor points out that this year's apple harvest was one of the best ever, due to the perfect weather conditions for the crop that we enjoyed (or not) this year. He asks a very simple question - if we're growing all these lovely sweet...

The Landshare system worked perfectly -- it matched my garden with some new neighbours I didn't even know existed just over the back wall of the property.  We have already started work in the garden.  Great fun to have some helpers in a big space that is too much for one person! Next job is to harvest all the apples and send them off with the perry pears to the local presser. ...

The Landshare Team are chuffed and basking in the reflective glory of Hugh winning Campaigner of the Year in the 2010 Observer Ethical Awards for his work on Landshare.  The Grassroots category winner was Abundance. Hugh met Abundance last year, but I have to admit I’d not come across them before.  Their growing grassroots project has teams of volunteers across the UK...