Sowing Seeds Project
Come and sow some creative seeds at the farm this weekend! Sowing Seeds’ is an exciting...
Sowing Seeds
Come and sow some creative seeds at the farm this weekend! Sowing Seeds' is an exciting...
Start Of The Hoeing
It was just about dry enough this morning to break out the wheel hoe and run it through the...
Barn Work
Rob and Terry getting stuck in to paneling out the barn today.
Brew Time in the Poly Tunnel
It may be cold and wet outside but its cosy in the poly tunnel. Who needs Sunday lunch?
Let The Fun Begin
We had our first site visit yesterday from Edge Hill performing arts students and the 'Walk The...
Storm Doris Damage
Storm Doris gave us a battering on Thursday. Our ground cover fabric does a great job but if it...
Burscough Food Champions ‘Cook and Eat’ Session
Jane and I really enjoyed...
Fresh Air, Fresh Start Trainers Seminar
A good turnout for our seminar today.
Rhubarb Planting
The rhubarb crowns we have been given have started to sprout so we thought it would be a good time...
Starting To Sow
We started to sow our seeds today with onions being the first.
Last Day of ‘Food Champions’ Training
Some pictures from our final nutritional session on the 'Food Champions' course Jane and...
Willow Cutting
We started to cut and grade our basket willow today.
It’s All About The Zones
Our Permaculture guru Gaynor has been busy making signs pointing out the relevance of the...
Nick Weir and the Open Food Network
Listening to Nick Weir about the Open Food Network. This will be a great resource for small...
Wet Monday – Seed Audit Time
Its very wet out so our volunteers are keeping dry in the poly tunnel and doing a seed audit. We...
Coldest Morning This Winter
With -5.9 Celsius on the poly tunnel thermometer I think this has been the coldest morning this...
Basket Willow Shelter
There are just a few of us here...
Birdwatching Tour
Some of our members enjoyed a guided birdwatching tour this morning hosted by our birding expert...
Tree Planting Team
A great tree planting team from all generations making real headway on our tree planting.
Another Golden Dawn
Amazing sunrise over the bank. It will be cold today if you are coming down to plant trees, so...
12 Months After The Flood
It's exactly 12 months ago today that Burscough Community Farm was under 5 feet of...
Booths, thanks for the cardboard
A big thank you to Booths Supermarket in Burscough yesterday for letting us have some cardboard to...
Sunny Winter Sunday Afternoon
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November Sunset Collection
Just very occasionally you get one of those...
Tree Planting Starts Again
We are experimenting this year using the Rotary Plough to cut a trench for our tree planting.
Cold Snap
It was the coldest night of the winter so far on Friday night with -4.9°C, but the poly tunnel is...
Wind Then Frost; it’s really winter now.
Stormy conditions of the last few days have blown our tarps around quite a lot. So, putting them...
Basket Willow
Just a few leaves left on our basket willow. It will soon be time to harvest and grade the crop.
Samhain Update
With a final figure of £612.26 raised we well exceeded our target goal of £550.00. Well done...