Lots of people grow fruit, veggies and herbs but a lot of people don’t realise that some decorative flowers are also edible! They look great in the garden, they attract wildlife (bees, butterflies, hoverflies, pollinating ...
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This week: Growing Po-tay-toes!
What Are Potatoes?
Great. They are just great.
Potatoes are a root crop, known as tubers. They are swellings of roots, and one seed potato can produce ten more. Potatoes are most commonly grown from seed potatoes, which ...
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This week: Growing Salad Crops
Sow and Grow with The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham
Salad Growing in the UK
Most salad crops grow well in the UK. I grow mine both on my allotment and at home in raised beds in the back garden, but you can easily ...
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Long thyme no see
Hello Everyone!
It’s been a while but the thyme has come to reignite this blog. I am a fan of puns, so please bear with me as I leaf my way through a list of them.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have suspended all of ...
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Life as a Project Officer
On a dull, grey morning in February I pulled up at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site for my first day out as a Project Officer on the Health for Life in the community programme. I was excited but also nervous - as I am a food ...
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Whats happening this week with Health for Life?
The first of our weekly blogs about our activities for the forthcoming week:
Tuesday 27th May 12:00 - 16:00 - Manor Farm Park.
Join us for a Health cooking and eating session using freshly harvested produce at our ...
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Mondelez Employees help the community at Cotteridge Park Orchard
Cotteridge Park Orchard was the location for the latest of many Employee Action Days with Mondelez and the Health for Life in the Community programme. Cotteridge Park Orchard has been established over a number of years by ...
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