We grow food without using chemicals, but a weekly dose of organic seaweed extract (diluted in water) helps feed the tomatoes and cucumbers as they produce lots of tasty fruit!
Snippets from yesterday's volunteer sessions 💚
🌳🍏 Starting to see some of your fruit trees dropping a few of their fruits? Don’t panic! It might seem concerning and even a waste, but this is entirely natural and part of the tree looking after what it can sustain and grow on to be good, mature fruit. In a good blossom and pollination year, there may simply be too many developing fruitlets for the tree to support all of them to develop into mature fruit. So around this time of year, trees will often lose a proportion of the smaller fruits. There isn’t anything you can do to prevent this other than good orchard management and promoting strong tree health.
Planting up tomatoes today - thank you to all our volunteers!
Mission accomplished - sowing of 20 wildflower mini-meadows in Fitton Hill has been completed! 🌺🐝🌼🌸
We've been sowing wildflower mini-meadows in Fitton Hill this week, with help from the local community! Have you spotted any yet? 🌺🐝
This polytunnel is bursting with seedlings at the moment! Come and get involved in sowing and transplanting on Thursdays 10am-12pm and 1-3pm.
Look who's been feasting on slugs and protecting the winter salads in the Wildbrook polytunnels!
The Fitton Hill Community Fruit and Veg Bag scheme enables residents of Fitton Hill to receive a bag of five different vegetables and three fruits (min. 3.5kg in weight) for just £4. No long term commitment is needed.
Weekly orders need to be in before 4pm on Tuesdays. Collection only from Wildbrook on Thursdays between 1-4pm.
Pay by cash, card or Healthy Start card on collection. Text 07889 993362 or email [email protected] to order or for more info. Sorry DMs cannot be responded to.
*Video below shows contents of one example veg bag. Contents will vary depending on availability and seasonality.
Some of our youngest volunteers sowed broad beans in pots just before Christmas and they were excited to see that the broad beans have germinated and started growing!
Wildbrook 2023
As the end of 2023 approaches, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped, visited and been involved in getting the Wildbrook Community Food & Growing Project started this year. Revitalising a site like this is a huge undertaking and it would not have been possible without the support and help from the local Fitton Hill and wider Oldham community. Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and New Year! #fittonhill #communityfoodgrowing
Saturday volunteering at Wildbrook
This Saturday 2nd December 10am-12pm the Wildbrook site is open to the community. Come and have a look around the site, get involved in some gardening tasks and pick up some veg from our produce stall. We'd love to see you there! #fittonhill
