If you’ve wandered past Plots 3 and 4 recently, you might have noticed someone with a camera in hand, quietly observing or capturing the gentle ebb and flow of life on Highbridge Community Farm. That’s Jo Rose - an artist and long-time member of HCF.
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Digging into the earthworm survey
Earthworms are key indicators of soil health and ecosystem function so we've been checking on the numbers of earthworms in our soil at HCF for several years now. What have our surveys revealed?
HCF goes edimental
Plot 3 at Highbridge Community Farm has a new set of plants: edimentals. What are these? And why are we interested in growing them?
New grant helps us to get water to the plots
This year, one of our projects is getting a boost from a local grant.
Turning around our soil problems
You might think that loading your soil with compost, manure, or woodchip can only be a good thing, enriching it and adding to its ability to nourish crops? We thought the same - until Dr Andrew Ross took a closer look at our soil. It turns out that we've got a problem. Our soil has too much phosphorus and rapidly-declining levels of potassium.
Is it an eater or a cooker? (And can I have some of the red apples, please?)
Traditionally, people think of apples as either sweet, crisp, and juicy for eating or fluffy and somewhat bitter for baking. But is this thinking stopping us from making the most of HCF apples?
Focus on fruit
Over the last 10 years, the soft fruit crops have grown from a simple bed of rhubarb to a pretty sophisticated set-up with irrigation, cages, and a wide range of varieties producing around a staggering 1300lbs of fruit each year. Find out more about the work of the Soft Fruit team.
The A Team story
Can you imagine Highbridge Community Farm without sheds, water, polytunnels, fruit cages, tools, compost bins, cups of tea, somewhere to sit ...? These are just a few of the things that our Infrastructure ("A") Team take care of.
Blast from the past
Check out this clipping from May 2013 as a lovely reminder of just how long our community farm has been thriving.
Look sharp!
There's more than you think to getting strong edges around each plot. Alister ran some workshops to show how it's done.