Duke Street Gardens is privately owned garden which was once used as a small holding, in recent years the land has become over grown until at the end of last year John (the landowner) and his daughter Rhian, approached me with a view to working alongside John to clear the land and restart the small holding.
The plan is to grow a variety of produce to supply to the Bear Cafe in Todmorden with any excess being sold to other local businesses and the local community.
Using only traditional natural growing methods and helping to increase the amount of recycling that the cafe is able to do, from food waste to glass bottles.
The site is a haven for wildlife and through this blog we will be keeping you upto date with sightings as well as our progress as the growing season approaches.
Year one will very much be a testing ground before we aim to develop more growing beds for year 2 and beyond.
We also plan on having a small amount of livestock and will soon be taking delivery of some eggs which we will place in our incubator and rear the hatchlings to provide us with free range eggs.
Foraging for natural food will also take place later in the year, we've a lot to do and a long way to go but it will be lots of fun as well as very hard work.
Our goal is Sustainable Quality Local Produce.
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