The Allotment Project

🌱🥔 Saag Aloo & Rock Monsters Day – Tomorrow! 🪨🌱

If you’re joining us tomorrow (13 August ) please remember to bring along your plastic trays from Cauliflower Cheese Day a fortnight ago! ♻️

Let’s keep reusing and recycling wherever we can. 🌍💚

See you tomorrow for another fun day! 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

🧀💜 Cauliflower Cheese Day 2026! 💜🧀

What a lovely day celebrating all things cauliflower cheese! 🥦✨

This year, the kids, m**s and dads got creative and learned the wonderful art of needle felting with Crafty Kim. There were lots of smiles, creativity and plenty of woolly fun! 🧶😊

And, of course, we had our very own homegrown cauliflowers to celebrate too! 🌱 This year we managed to grow beautiful purple cauliflowers as well as our traditional white ones — what a fantastic harvest! 💜🤍

A huge thank you to everyone who came along, got involved and helped make Cauliflower Cheese Day 2026 such a special occasion.

Here’s to growing, learning, creating and enjoying good food together! 🥦🧀💜

Some kind words from one of our adults on a Monday ‘Growing Together’ sessions .

I came across the Allotment Project in April this year. Having recently moved to the area, I was looking for an opportunity to meet people, learn new skills, and gain some experience in gardening and growing vegetables. I initially attended for purely selfish reasons.

What I found, however, was so much more.

The Allotment Project is an amazing place, not just where it is in the Deerness Valley, surrounded by Woodland and River. It’s ethos is centred on learning and growing together as a community, but it offers far more than that. It is a place of friendship, support, and belonging. At the Monday group, lead by Sol and Kim, people from all walks of life and a range of abilities, come together, sharing their knowledge, experiences, and time with one another. There is a genuine sense of inclusion and mutual respect that makes everyone feel welcome.

Beyond the chickens and the eggs, the vegetables that are grown and the practical skills that are learned, the project helps to cultivate confidence, wellbeing, and connection. It has become a place of purpose, where people can contribute, learn from one another, and feel part of something meaningful. There is no pressure to achieve but jobs get done, things get built and food is grown, all the while with skill, support and encouragement from Kim and Sol.

We work together, and come round a table and share food grown in the allotment. I’ve learned about crop rotation and food security, how to use a circular saw safely. People dip in and out to contribute with kitchen tasks or wherever their strengths lie. What started as a way to develop a new hobby has become a real boost to wellbeing, making friendships in a community that I am proud to be part of. There are endless ways that this sort of project can support all ages to recover, learn, build community – very much needed in a modern pressure cooker world!

Registration is open for our Summer Youth activities. Please only register if you can definitely attend as spaces are limited.

That’s a wrap for Thursday night youthy’s and we resume in Sept when the schools go back.
Good luck to our year 7 members who couldn’t be with us tonight due to their leavers party . Big Thanks to all the staff and parent helpers.
Details of our summer fun days to follow .

Another cracking youthy tonight with some new and old faces , some food and games followed by a walk up the stream to cool off .

Great youthy with a walk up the stream to the rear of the project !! Great fun

Lovely article in Living North magazine about the project

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