A year of growing and sharing food together in Newsome - at our community allotment, at Stirley Farm and in lots of other places across our community. 2012 was a lousy year for growing weather, but a great year for growing friendships. We shall remember it fondly.

1. Growing Food Together
Growing Newsome
& Stirley Farm
2012

2. Enough veg to treat the cows!
January

3. Oldbank Juniors
February

4. Yetton
Together
sow the first
broad beans
February

5. Spike is
inspired by
Wooldale
Allotments
herb spiral
February

6. Carole and Cherry organise a fundraising
ceilidh and a good night is had by all
February

7. The cubs enjoy Stirley
leek and potato soup
February

8. Pruning the fruit trees at
Hey Green orchard
February

9. Potato Day
March

10. Andrew, Julian and (some of) 1,000 fruit trees
March

11. Leek squeezing, and stuff...
March

12. Planting the new orchard
March

13. Digging in at the community allotment
March

14. Newsome Juniors brave the weather
March

15. Growing Newsome potato planting
March

16. Sue’s basket making workshop
March

17. Many hands move a purple sage
March

18. Blimey!
Didn’t we do a
lot in March?
Time for a
quick cuppa...
April

19. Hall Bower Chapel Coffee Morning
raises funds for Stirley Farm Appeal
April

20. Hillside ‘Growing For Home’ plant
spuds at the Farm
April

21. Planting herbs outside
Raymond and Jenny’s shop
April

22. Hall Bower Chapel
‘secret garden’ planting
April

23. Patching up the polytunnel...
April

24. ...then finding out how many people
you can fit in a 10ft polytunnel
April

25. A fabulous foraging day with ‘Taste the Wild’
April

26. Quietly getting ready for the plant swap
April

27. We just love to plant things!
April

28. Cummins Turbo technology funds the
re-roofing of the farmhouse
May

29. Hillside Primary plant spuds
in the rain and shine
May

30. Newsome growers’ trip to Edibles in
Slaithwaite – with home baked pizza
mmm....
May

31. The plants are
on the move...
May

32. Plant Swap
May

33. Jubilee
May

34. A moment on the ‘verandah’
May

35. Hillside Growing for Home
June

36. Altogether
Better see
the calves
enjoying
some sun
June

37. David trying to sell coals to Newcastle?
June

38. Tasters: salad wraps, gooseberry mousse,
raspberry vinegar and elderflower cordial
June

39. Our annual debate about who is
tall enough to put up the bean poles
June

40. Kids Club enjoy salads and elderflower cordial
June

41. Growing Newsome enjoy Rob’s strawberry
shortcake at our first ‘Growing Group’ do
July

42. Hillside Eco Club plant
salads at Stirley
July

43. Time to break out the jam pans
July

44. Sharing more
strawberries
and enjoying
the colours
of our
community
allotment
July

45. Harvesting
August

46. Ian and Ruth sort shallots for
eating, seed, chutney... and pickles
August

47. Stirley’s bees get assigned by Toby
August

48. Kids at the RAPT project make a lovely banner
August

49. Cliff and Dan tend the veg beds
(a good year for flowers)
August

50. A slug in a
strawberry -
the story of
the summer?
August

51. Kids Club at Stirley
August

52. We decided to
keep this potato
as a pet (it’s
much more
friendly looking
than the slug)
August

53. Hall Bower
Supper,
featuring
nasturtium
roulette
August

54. Stirley open day
September

55. Healthy Communities
September

56. Opening of the
sensory garden at
Castle Grange,
in glorious rain
September

57. Tending the edible hedges at Stirley
September

58. Let’s Get Cooking – Hillside
Primary Winter Salads
October

59. Berry Brow Eco Fair -
the day we invented
pickled pear sandwiches
October

60. Autumn
Gathering
October

61. ‘Green For Go’ mulching the forest
garden with leaves from St John’s
churchyard
November

62. The day we reclaimed our paths,
with bark chippings from St John’s
November

63. Newsome High Snap Day – walking to the farm
and Ready Steady Cook at Hall Bower Chapel
November

64. The first apple from our community allotment -
an Egremont Russet (we had one slice each)
November

65. Cr8 Barn - some day this will be our kitchen...
November

66. Christmas Craft Fair
November

67. Kirklees College students bed
down the Forest Garden for
Winter
December

68. A final bit of
fruit planting
at the allotment
this year
December

69. and after Winter...
Spring
Thank you for
growing with us