The Rock Corps at work on our new herb spiral
A week of more than normal industriousness this week from Oxgrow…
With the help of technical extraordinaire, Jack, Oxgrow continued development on a bicycle powered water pump (check it out)! The system is not quite yet up and running but Jack assures me the remaining creases will soon be ironed out.
Oxgrow also recruited some heavies via the Student Hub Hubathon that was taking place on Hogacre Common this past weekend. They generously threw themselves into the huge task of bringing across a bench from local Grandpont Nursery. The monolithic beast (consisting of ample seating as well as two large planting beds) was deconstructed and brought across the bridge piecemeal.
With all this technical wizardry and flexing of muscles going on it might be easy to forget the routine tasks such as watering and weeding, jobs taking an ever increasing amount of time as the site expands in size. It’s great, therefore, to have so much willing volunteers down to continue these vital tasks.
And as our plot expands so do our yields. This week we have been mostly eating turnips and peas.
As well as extra help from Student Hubbies this week, we were also delighted to host a Rock Corps young volunteer session down on the site on Tuesday. On a gloriously wet and rainy day we welcomed around 40 volunteers and set them to task on various projects on the site.
Their enthusiasm and efforts were miraculous to behold and at the end we were left with a huge new raised bed (replete with poly tunnel and wooden edging!), a herb spiral, two olive trees, a bed of fruit bushes, and two new picnic benches. All of this was watched over by Rock Corps’ very own DJ, who saw to it that we put some serious rhythm into our spade hits.
For anyone that hasn’t been down to the site in a while you’re in for a real treat next time you come down. As well the usual pat on the back to everyone from Oxgrow who came down we are especially appreciative of the Rock Corps Volunteers who made such an impact in such a short time.
Make sure you come down next week to see what they got done!
Chris
OxGrow 