These pictures celebrate our past year of growing and sharing food together in Newsome – at our community allotment, at Stirley Farm and across our community.

1. Growing Food Together
2014

2. January
New year, new hats...

3. Stirley “Three years on...” walk
January

4. One of our Winter jobs...
tidying up Raymond and
Jenny’s herb planter
February

5. February
Another of our Winter jobs...
...our seed packet
production line swings
quietly into action

6. February
A fabulous fruit pruning day

7. February
Snip, snip, snip

8. March
Potato Day (brace thi sen)

9. March
Student volunteers from the Uni giving us a big hand

10. March
Rachel doing her Eric Morcambe routine

11. March
Empty baskets before you know it

12. Our ‘Big Dig’ day - getting our spuds in...
March

13. ...with much
hilarity over our
accidental
‘severed finger’
potato (half a
Pink Fir Apple)
March

14. Hurrah, it’s time to plant seeds
April

15. Lovely herbs - our reward for giving a talk
at Thurstonland Village Association
April

16. Digging
April
Photo: Tim Padmore

17. Cooking in the Cre8 Barn (when I first
came here grace was a baby – Kim)
April

18. Spring :-)
April

19. Stirley’s second set of twin calves -
ahhh…
April

20. Mmmmm -
These humans are really tasty
These humans are really tasty
April

21. May

22. We’re getting to be experts at making wild garlic pesto
May

23. May
Plant Swap -
what can you find?

24. May
Learning new skills -
from seed bombs to
Level 2 food hygiene

25. May
High water mark at the
community allotment...

26. Yorkshire Sculpture park meets Stirley
Community Farm to create a cow sculpture….
…and then
set fire to it…
May

27. June
“Flaming” June -
a very soggy allotment
open day where we
met some new friends

28. Berry Brow Carnival
June

29. A lovely day planting things together
June

30. Launching Stirley Beef at Honley Show
June

31. Getting our allotment in order
June

32. Toby collecting a swarm of bees (with a
paintbrush, ladder and a cardboard box)
June

33. Currants a-plenty this year
July

34. It’s jam time
July

35. We revealed some secret
ingredients at Newsome
Bowling Club’s open day
July

36. Trying to keep up with our picking duties
July

37. David’s infinite gooseberry bush strikes again
July

38. We took part in the first Made in Huddersfield event
July

39. along with some of our friends...
August

40. Picking the Stirley bumper crop of plums
Notice the new polytunnel in the background!!
August

41. Thank you Pam and
Graham for showing
us around your
allotments...
August
sorry we brought
the rain with us

42. A lovely
present of
strawberries...
thank you to
everyone who
brought us
nice surprises
this year
August

43. Stirley Beef Box Scheme’s
first customer
first customer
September

44. Stirley Open Sunday, with added jam
September

45. An Indian Summer necessitated
‘Extreme Mowing’
September

46. Calfie and Monica (not sure who’s in charge)
September

47. Tea break
September

48. Did we mention the digging?
September

49. Mikron Theatre Company perform
‘til the Cows Come Home’
October

50. An Autumn Gathering full of goodies
October

51. October
Chocolate Cherry
tomatoes great this year
and still going strong

52. Stirley Community Farm Food Festival
October

53. Hall Bower supper
Confession:
we all ate too much cakeOctober

54. October

55. Getting our beds ready for next year
November

56. Hubble, bubble, toil and... something
November

57. Slippy path indicator system
(single use only hopefully)
November

58. All hands on deck to reclaim our paths
November

59. Guess where David’s been
November

60. November

61. Christmas craft fair
November

62. Is it time for fruit pruning again already?
November

63. Our favourite jam jar delivery of the year -
Caroline’s empties from Made in Huddersfield
December

64. Picking stuff for
our Christmas
Gathering
December

65. to growing friends
old and new...
see you in 2015