Incredible Edible Middlesbrough

Hey folks! This page has been pretty quiet over the winter period and then, of course, through the current and ongoing CV crisis 😢 But! We're looking to bring the food growers of Middlesbrough together soon to hatch plans to grow more of our own fruit and veg in and for our community! So if this is something you're currently doing, or would like to be more involved with - maybe you're eyeing up a grass verge for a veg bed, or using your own space to generate a surplus for your neighbours - please comment here (of PM the page if you're shy) and we'll get cracking.

Can we get more of this happening?!Photos from Barefoot Kitchen CIC's post

In the smallest and most unlikely of spaces: winter purslane (heart shaped leaves) growing wild in planters behind the Town Hall!Photos from Incredible Edible Middlesbrough's post

We missed one little nut tree when we planted the Whinney Banks orchard last year, so we took the opportunity to plant it today and check on the others. Pleased to report no damage and all trees seem to be thriving. One resident even told us he had momentarily seen cherries before the birds got them last year! Here's to 2020's harvest! Trees for Cities, Incredible Edible, Thirteen

Nuts and nut treeswww.lowimpact.orgHere's how to grow and forage for nuts - if you can beat the squirrels!

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A fantastic opportunity to be the start of a public-space, food growing project! Meet at 10.30 tomorrow, Westbourne Field in Linthorpe.