August Newsletter 2023
Dear friend, August brings us National Allotments Week (7th – 13th August), with a theme this year of Soil Health. Below, Jen explains what we have been doing to help…
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Up To No Good
There are many early examples of improper behaviour on the Hungerhills. I was reminded of this by a notice found by volunteer Mo Cooper in the Nottinghamshire archives. Town of…
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July Newsletter 2023
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,…
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Hungerhill Celebrities
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…
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National Volunteer Week 2023 – by Lucy Kennedy
National Volunteer Week 2023 National Volunteer Week is an annual celebration of volunteers contributing within their communities in all kinds of ways. At STAA we are excited to join National…
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Allotment music
On the 12 September 1862, the Nottinghamshire Guardian reported that an Amateur Horticultural and Flower fete by “a society, whose object is the promotion and encouragement of Horticulture and Floriculture,…
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