Yesterday felt like Christmas had come a few months late on the OxGrow plot.
We received a delivery of an entire skip full of wonderfully rich compost, generously donated by the guys at University Parks. Somehow Nolan, the Parks’ compost guru and expert driver, maneuvered an enormous skip-lorry down a narrow track, over various tiny bridges (with less than an inch on either side of the wheels at times), over the railway track, and down to the bottom of the field – it was a magnificent performance! And we now have an absolutely enormous pile of perfect compost to build up our beds with.
As if that wasn’t enough excitement for one day, we were also given a large collection of bits of wood of all shapes and sizes by Pembroke College’s drama society, who dismantled their Sweeney Todd set and donated it to OxGrow instead of chucking it in a skip. We got heckled a bit taking it down to the site in rucksacks and a wheelbarrow, but it will be worth it!
Mega open work-party tomorrow, 1-4 as part of the Conversations with the Earth Community Festival. Come along!
Doireann
OxGrow 
