Welcome

Welcome to the 'Digging for Health' blog, a record of the development of a social enterprise project supported by Engage UnLtd and Age Concern, Dorchester, UK. We have been allocated a community allotment (thanks to the Volunteer Centre, Dorset), which is very overgrown and run down. This blog will provide a history of the development of the allotment, as we return it to a fully functioning and productive resource that aims to not only produce vegetables but also raise social capital (what's social capital?...read the blog!). This blog belongs to Fran Biley. This views expressed here are his, and he takes full responsibility for them. They may not represent the views of the organisations that are mentioned here.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Getting rid of one of the old sheds

Today, 8th Jan 2011, we (myself, Anna and James) aimed to get rid of the old shed. After a couple of hours it was fully dismantled, and I went to load it in my car (to take the boards back to my workshop, I want to do some sculptures and things like that) only to find that they were too big to fit in. Anybody got a trailer? The wood is lovely weathered red cedar (I think), and quite solid, the boards are thick and wide, so perhaps we'll be able to make raised beds with some of them. Anything that cannot be otherwise usefully used can be thrown in the woodburner.

We had a walk around the allotment site. How come we have easily the smallest allotment, others seem to be almost twice the size of ours? And I was sad to see that throughout the site little attention seems to have been paid to the aesthetics of allotment keeping. The allotments seem almost purely functional (if that!), indeed just plain scruffy. Perhaps its the time of year?

Here are three of pics of the shed, before and after deconstruction:



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