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On Thursday night our allotment shed was burnt to the ground. The fire was so fierce that neighbours called the fire brigade who had to stumble through woodland to put out the blaze and stop our Saxon roundhouse from also catching fire. You might get the wrong impression, when you think of a garden shed storing a few tools and a couple of old flowerpots. This was a lot more than a shed, it was what some youngsters called our… Read More »BURNT TO THE GROUND

People from the Migrant English Project http://mepbrighton.com/ visited the garden during the last hot day of the year and cooked various bread, soup and enjoyed the sunshine. Listen to a radio programme about the day http://www.refugeeradio.org.uk/audio/20110910_refrad78forest.mp3

Polish community workers. Chinese teachers. Volunteers from Brazil to Taiwan, South Korea to Central Europe. The forest garden is a United Nations melting pot. For the past three years Concordia have been working with us and Moulsecoomb Primary School. Francesca Corney explained: “Concordia is a charity committed to international volunteering as a means to promoting intercultural understanding and peace. For nearly 70 years we have provided volunteering and work opportunities overseas and here in the UK. Every year we run… Read More »MELTING POT

After last year’s success we decided to run two summer holiday schemes for Moulsecoomb kids. A chance for them to make camps, carve wood, try out some bushcraft, cook over fires, stuff their faces with marshmallows and generally just enjoy being outside. But we haven’t yet bitten the bullet and let people camp overnight! Recently I did a bit of that overnight camping where all the children were having a brilliant, pretty much unsupervised, time outdoors – just like the… Read More »FOREST GARDEN SUMMER CAMP

Spending a penny at the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden Projects is a lot more pleasant thanks to a brand new compost toilet. The toilet was built by pupils on work experience, overseen by project workers and funded by the Princes Trust and Sussex Community Foundation. Three of the pupils, Daniel Morton and Reece Daly from the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy and Karl Williams from Bowden House School received awards from the Princes Trust because of their work. Team Leader Reece Daly… Read More »PRINCES TRUST AWARDS COMPOST LOO BUILDERS

These photos are by Laura Wright

On a beautiful sunny day in June nearly 300 people came to our open day to learn about bees, go on guided walks in the woods, learn about composting, herbs and wildflowers. Look at our amazing new compost loo, make string from nettles and bark, practice some basket making or wood carving. Make pizzas in our clay oven, dress up or pond dip. Here’s a selection of photos taken by Esther Lynn Thanks to Big Lottery Fund for funding this… Read More »WOODLAND OPEN DAY 4TH JUNE 2011

Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund which funded a year long celebration of Queensdown Woods being part of the South Downs National Park, Dave Bangs has been taking groups of schoolchildren from Moulsecoomb Primary into the woods and surrounding fields. Here’s a list of what Year 5 found. In the Wood When we first stopped in the Wood we could hear Blackcap’s melodious warbling (it is a ‘warbler’ !!) in the background…and the monotonous chiff-chaff of the Chiffchaff… Read More »WALK IN THE WOODS WITH MOULSECOOMB PRIMARY