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Barney’s Blog 4 – Grow Your Own
A couple of months in and I keep encountering new types of sessions in my post: my first raised bed party, the first of our Grow Your Own courses and my first meet up with the steering group. That’s what I call interesting variety in a job! Sow and Grow …
Barney’s Blog 3 – oot n aboot
Hello good Moravians, it’s been a wee while since my last installment. Last time I told you a little about our preparation for the Open Day at Home Farm, Pitgaveney. A cracker of a day was had! Sheepdog trials, sheep shearing, a farmers’ market and bicycle powered smoothies were just …
Barney’s Blog 2 – Tuesday epic
Hello it’s Barney again and time for my second installment, where I’m going to tell you about my busy day last Tuesday. It was a day of varied activities (and weather!). I joined Dorothy in the morning at Home Farm, Pitgaveney just outside Elgin. We were doing the preparation for …
Barney’s Blog
Hello everyone, my name’s Barney Thompson and I’ve just started as a Project Assistant on the exciting new Grow Elgin project that REAP is running. I’m going to be writing a blog of what I’ve been up to – to give you a taste of the project and maybe encourage …
DIY Draught Excluder
What with the cold weather setting in, I thought it would be the perfect time to make a draught excluder. We have a knitting pattern for a draught excluder that can be downloaded here. But if you’re like me, and you can just about tell one end of a knitting …
Fresh Herbs for Hospital
REAP’s latest appearance in the Banffie features the new, herb-filled raised bed at The Turner Hospital. You can see all our press clippings on the Press page of the website.
Twa drookit rats on KCR FM radio
Catch Lynne and Dorothy’s January broadcast for KCR FM’s Community Corner programme. Back from the allotments in the rain, they warm up by making some allotment soup with freshly harvested tatties. There’s growing your own chat, and energy saving kitchen tips from Sandra from the Energy Benefits Moray team.
Apple-icious
Here’s our wee slideshow with just a few photos from the Apple Day. Roll on next year! If you click on the play button it will take you to the Smilebox website where the video will load and play automatically. Picture slideshow created with Smilebox