July Newsletter 2023

Newsletter

Dear friend, June has been a beautiful month up on the allotments with vibrant flowers in bloom and the community harvest in full swing with plenty of salads, kale, herbs, chard and broad beans. And to top off an already fantastic month was a rare wildlife sighting of Red Belted Clearwings by Melanie Penson, Conservation…

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History & Heritage

The artist Dame Laura Knight is regularly mentioned in relation to the Hungerhill Gardens. Her Uncle Arthur was a tenant during the late 19th century, and, to her biographer, she recalled “Uncle Arthur bringing home washing baskets full of roses from his allotment at Hungerhills, enough to fill three cut-glass bowls followed by the harvest…