Sherborne In Bloom!

Archive for November, 2008

The Quarr Local Nature Reserve is one of the town’s star amenities being a designated Local Nature Reserve. At this time of the year we can (sometimes!) have glorious autumn days where a walk on the wild side can remind us that Nature blooms naturally all year round.

Here are some of the sights to be seen at the Quarr In November. To see close-ups of the pictures, click twice on each image.

Remembrance Day in Sherborne

On the 90th anniversary of the end of WWI the poppies commemorate still all those who suffer and die in conflict.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

More allotments needed? Not enough land available?

Now here’s a good idea! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (of River Cottage fame) is launching this initiative called ‘Landshare’ which puts people who want to cultivate land in touch with those who have land available. He’s doing this via Channel 4 TV which broadcasts his cookery/country lifestyle programme.

Hugh’s idea is simple. There are more and more people who want to grow their own food, but there are long waiting lists for allotments. So, find more land. People who have gardens that they would like to share or landowners with unused land could satisfy the demand by making their land available.

The TV programme has featured several examples of how this can work. In one case, a woman whose garden was too big for her to manage allowed another woman to come in and work it in exchange for a share of the vegetable crop. And there are other examples of people ‘guerilla gardening’, planting vegetables in untended public spaces.

Find out more about this excellent idea at http://landshare.channel4.com/