This project encourages and supports community in relearning how to work, rest and play together, co-operatively with nature, for the great good.

Orchard Barn Environmental Education Community Interest Company (OBee CIC) Registration Number 6379982 - Wildfire Designs 2007 - Photographs by Richard Smithson

VOLUNTEER PROJECTS

(organised by OBee Community Interest Company)

Beginning to apply daub to underside of East lean-to

Wattling and tiling East roof - Dec 09

Starting to 'cobble' the yard - Nov 09

Replacing rafters and battening East Roof - Nov 09

Cladding the East lean-to with home-milled weatherboard - Oct 09

Repairing the East lean-to with reclaimed timber - Sept 09

Harvesting the orchard fruit - Sept 09

Recycling clay - reconstructing Cob wall - June - Oct 09

Earth School - Childrens Vegetable Garden - May 09

Cleaning and laying old bricks - May - Oct 09

Digging and planting up the new vegetable plot - March 09

Herb and salad areas in old tyres - Spring 09

Clearing site and composting - Spring 07 - on-going

Turning the old muck spreader into a 'raised vegetable bed' - April 07 - on-going

Constructing the Green wood working area - weaving with Hazel - April - August 09

Reclaiming flint - Summer 07, Autumn 08 and Autumn 09

Built 4 large compost heaps - summer/Autumn 07

Sawing firewood - on-going

Clearing the farmyard - Summer 07

'Finding' the ditches - Winter 07/8

Repairing a donated gate and hanging it - Sept 07

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