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New Greenhouse, Soup and Sunflowers at Common Growth

By Common Growth on April 8, 2013 in Common Growth, Community events, Dynamic Gallery, Grow Wild, Skills, Uncategorized, Volunteers

The ‘first’ day of spring brought lots of people to Common Growth. As well as 8 of our regulars, we welcomed 8 new people to the garden. /We finally finished the greenhouse! So we immediately got underway with our seed planting – starting with like 120 sunflowers for the ’1000 Sunflowers in New Cross’ project. [...]

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February the 3rd: SOUP-er Sunday at Common Growth

By Common Growth on January 30, 2013 in Common Growth, Community events, Conversation Kitchen, Grow Wild, Volunteers

Hi Everyone, The dark and miserable month of January is nearly over and slowly our daylight hours are increasing again.Yeah! To celebrate this we are starting February with another SOUP-er Sunday on the 3rd of February! Louise from Grow Wild will be sharing some delicious home made soup with us and if weather permits [...]

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A hive of activity at Common Growth

By Common Growth on January 11, 2013 in Blog, Common Growth, Community events, Dynamic Gallery, Grow Wild, Uncategorized, Volunteers

Sunday 6ht of January 2013 I was pleasantly surprised to see that on a miserable grey Sunday so many volunteers braved the cold and came to help out at the Common Growth garden. With the promise of cups of tea, hot soup and cakes as a reward, 12 of us set out to build the [...]

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Confit of Garlic a la the Food Mixer recipe from the Hill Station

By Common Growth on November 19, 2012 in Community events, Dynamic Gallery

I’d like to share with you that I made the Confit of Garlic from the recipe in the Food Mixer in an attempt to inspire more of you to give it a go too! As guest editor of this edition, I thought I should at least give it a go myself. Although a little time [...]

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SOUPer Sunday at Common Growth this Sunday

By Common Growth on November 19, 2012 in Common Growth, Community events, Grow Wild, Volunteers

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Halloween at Common Growth

By Common Growth on November 5, 2012 in Arts, Children, Common Growth, Community events, Dynamic Gallery, Grow Wild

The Halloween Event at Common Growth was a success. Many thanks to Suriya, Ruth, Louise, Ella and Jim who organised it. There was games, singing, planting, art, and a soup making demonstration by Louise from Grow Wild. The photos attached tell the story of a fun afternoon! It is great to see that the space is [...]

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