October 2026
Given the experience of the last few years, we’re doing more onsite to prepare for future floods. Here, our construction team is winching up the Veg Shed, in preparation for sliding floats underneath it.
The Worcester Orchard Workers are still keeping our Veg Shed supplied with wonderful fruit harvests. We’ve even had some medlars delivered!
We have set up two new volunteer teams to focus on vegetable growing and ornamental flowers. Here is the veg team clearing the allotment garden beds, ready for next year’s crops.
And here is the result – lovely clean and tidy beds, ready for next spring!
Work is also going on over in the raised flower beds. Here, Kes and Marjorie are sowing hardy annual seeds, such as cornflowers.
The polytunnels are being tidied up and made ready for potential flooding. Here, Maxine is removing green tomatoes for chutney, before cutting down the tomato plants. In the background, Celia is putting up a net ‘shelf’ so that we can store items such as our woven willow structures above the floodwaters.
Even at the end of October, there is a surprising amount of produce for sale! Our peppers have been incredibly prolific this year, some plants benefitting from the protection of the greenhouse.