Category Archives: Seeds

A Gardening Year in Review

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Leigh Sparks

I don’t often use the blog for non-retail or personal posts but made an exception this time last year.  At the start of lockdown in March 2020 I started a weekly tweet about my greenhouse and last September I reflected … Continue reading →

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Week 26 in my Greenhouse

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Leigh Sparks

Anyone who follows me on twitter will have become used to Saturday pictures and tweets about the progress or not in my greenhouse.  On the 28th March I began (week 1) and here we are at week 26 – half … Continue reading →

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It’s Incredible

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Leigh Sparks

We hear an awful lot these days about the importance of, and need for, community. This is often in the setting of place-making or rebuilding locations hit by structural and recessionary change. But the numbers of examples of communities doing … Continue reading →

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Todmorden, Bruntsfield, Little Salkeld …. Local in Action

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Leigh Sparks

Many will know of the Incredible Edible Todmorden story – I mentioned Pam Warhurst’s presentation at Scotland’s Towns Conference a few posts ago – and some may have got involved in the Kickstarter crowdfunding of a book about their experiences, … Continue reading →

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