Volunteering at The Urb Farm has been a mental lifesaver for me. I've had a difficult summer and autumn - low moods, a splash of apathy, a pinch of dissatisfaction have all combined together to leave me with fewer feelings of 'wellbeing' than I would have wanted. Different people have different ...
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You might remember two years ago I put up a post about my back garden with optimistic thoughts of turning it into the 'Garden of Eden'. I had big plans, I said, I was going to get it sorted, I said.
Well, it's now 2018 and, it is safe to say, progress is SLOOOOOWWWWWWWWW. We have a new b ...
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Sitting in the urban jungle that is residential Wolverton is a jewel that is providing young people with a means to learn new skills and a better way of bringing farm to fork.
The Urb Farm is the home of Growing People, an organisation which works with youngsters on growing food in the lo ...
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Calling my project to improve our back garden 'Operation Garden of Eden' may be a bit optimistic given the picture above, but given the other name I had in mind was 'Operation Beirut' I figured being optimistic was better than starting off with an air of defeat.
We moved into our house ...
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