Windmill Community Gardens: Wonderfuel Day

Welcome to the Secret Garden South of Bobber's Mill Bridge in Nottingham

Welcome to Windmill Community Gardens, home of the Climate Friendly Gardeners Project.

We are a group of local people, who are nurturing a wonderful community garden in the heart of the city. You'll find us just South of Bobbersmill Bridge, on the allotment site at the South end of Ascot Road. The Gardens are a great place where anyone can come to find out more about growing their own food in a changing climate. We cater for all abilities and welcome any nationality or age group.

Why not come and join us?

Thursday, 22 January 2015

Wonderfuel Day

Windmill - where even the wood-boxes are happy!

Thanks to the lovely folk who turned up at Windmill today to help us harvest and process our fuel wood. We try to use wood from our own site and only harvest enough for each year. The trees we pollard or coppice grow again, so the system is designed to be sustainable and carbon neutral. We've now got a nicely sorted array of different sized sticks and logs in the wood shed thanks to the hard work. Joy's hat was an added bonus! Thai-style pumpkin soup for lunch round the fire, and artists charcoal ready for purchase, if anyone wants some. Productive day!

Rachel tries the high pruner, with Vanessa riding shotgun
with a safety rope

Hassan finishes the reorganisation of the woodshed

Joyce channels her inner Smurf

Thanks to newbies Vanessa and Rachel for working like trojans and mastering the Zubat high-pruner, to Hassan for rope rigging, wood shed sorting and fire wrangling and to Mac, Joyce, Brian and Ellie for sawing, lopping, secateuring and sorting the branches into submission. Well done all!