Dig In's Greatest Hits 2009 - Part 2

We had some excellent events last year.


The first one was our Willow Obelisk Weaving Workshop (hard to say, but fun to do!).


Then we had a Scarecrow Festival, with Scarecrows made by Albany Junior School, the 5th Stapleford Cubs and a few by Dig In members. Here are a few of the best ones - you'll guess that the theme was "The Sea"...

Next came our Apple Day, which was pretty busy, and meant that local folk got to taste over 20 different varieties of apple, taste various apple recipes, try their hand at making and drinking apple juice, play games and do crafts with apples and even meet our very own Apple Superheros!

Last, but definitely not least, we had our Pumpkin Festival. This took loads of work, but it was definitely worth it. We had help from the local Transition Group, as well as Dave - the Pumpkin Poet, and Francis - a pumpkin story-teller with many hats! We ran pumpkin carving workshops, pumpkin games, lots of food-tastings, a largest pumpkin competition, a best-carved pumpkin competition and even a pumpkin spa where pumpkin-cremes were used to give the clients younger-looking skin.

Our pumpkin poet starts off proceedings with a specially commissioned poem.

A pumpkin well-dressing

The largest pumpkin on the day.

Dig In's Greatest Hits 2009 - Part 1

 I thought I'd start things off with a flavour of what we've been getting up to at Dig In recently.


2009 was a great year, with some excellent events and lots of activity sessions at the allotment. 


As usual, the AAH Veg group that meets on Wednesday mornings at the allotment did a great job and managed to grow some very interesting and delicious crops, including almost completely filling the polytunnel with vines of a stupendously prolific squash. They've also brought their cooking to the allotment this year, so we had some feasts like this one.

Here's the vine when it was still a baby, before it took over!

The Thursday Group - which meets in the afternoons, also managed quite a few nice crops, including a great pumpkin crop (handy, since we were having a Pumpkin Festival!).

                                                                                          

We got very excited when we found our first pumpkin! 

But soon we had loads - and the picture by the car doesn't show any of the larger ones.