Tuesday 17th July 2018
A Bumper Harvest!
This year has seen our ‘Veggies R Us’ project continue to
flourish. With plenty of planting on the school site, today was the day to
harvest our produce and ship them to ‘The Plough’ at Wangford. We also had a
surprise visitor with Siobhan coming into school to see how we were getting on!
As you can see…we have a bumper harvest of Gooseberries,
Chard, Iceberg Lettuce and Rhubarb. Although the dry weather has diminished our
crop a little, we have still managed to provide ‘The Plough’ with 4 harvests of
our crops.
Harvesting has been a challenge with the weather set so dry
and warm. The team have to quickly harvest their crops, weight them, wrap them
all and deliver them all in the space of an hour. Quite a challenge but ‘Team
Veggies R Us’ have risen well to it! Our finance team are now used to preparing
invoices and sending them to Adnams for payment.
Looking ahead we are hoping to buy our long awaited
greenhouse over the winter to enable us to grow tomatoes and cucumbers. We are
also putting systems in place to make our allotment plot more manageable…lots
of thinking required to tackle a changing climate! Let’s hope for some
night-time showers soon!
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