An exciting conversation today with the organisers of the upcoming Oban Food Assembly as a producer ourselves (and our past experience running local community markets)
Anyone who is serious about local food please sign up as potential customers to the Food Assembly. There are folk who are working hard to bring this about in Oban .. as a weekly food event. If you register, you can sign into the existing markets like Stirling, and get a feel for how it works.
And more importantly you will show those who are beetling in the background that there is support for their efforts.
The aim is to start in May
All the “shopping” will be online, and then you collect once a week in town.
This winter we are planting out 9 copses with young native trees, but there will be plenty of space to underplant, there are also several ponds being created.
We would love to add more native plants / seeds / pollinators / herbs / perennials / scrub to increase the diversity, increase the flowering seasons, to improve the habitats for insects and other small animals.
If anyone is clearing out plants that have taken over, or you have a building project where they are in the way, they would have a very welcome home here.
We have wet, dry, sandy, boggy, north, south, shade, light 🙂
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE – TELLINGTON TTOUCH TRAINING – POSE RUNNING – MBTI
Erica Donnison’s visits in 2018 : Alexander Technique & Tellington TTouch training, Benderloch Erica is planning to visit us at Kintaline Farm, Benderloch on
Feb 22nd – 27th : May 31st – June 5th : Aug 30th – Sept 4th : Nov 22nd – 27th
TOMORROW!! (yeah, I know its no notice at all but there are good reasons!!) and the weather looks FAB !
29th December
FIRST !! of January ..
We have several lovely small copse areas to plant, great soils, with a range of native tree species, as well as some food trees for US and fodder shrubs for our sheep.
There is also some bulbs and planting for the insects and make the areas even more beautiful in the future.
Thanks to the The Woodland Trust we have some great young trees waiting to go in and all the protective covers for them all.
PLEASE let me know if you want to come so I know about food .. or you will go hungry and we do not want that !!
We have some tools but if you have a spade / gloves that would be really useful.
There is a growing demand for great fibre feeds we can grow in this country to provide wonderful nutrition for our livestock to replace grains we have to import.
This improves our carbon footprint, grass fed meat has health benefits, and it’s good for our livestock
Kintaline Feeds have a variety of fibre feeds on offer from a variety of companies.
Dengie are one of the best and can offer :
Grass nuts
We have just a few Light Sussex pullets and one Cockerel left this season.
Here are their grown up siblings .. very handsome birds, and the girls are still laying. Some were broody this summer so you would be able to raise your own. They are a good size, meaty and productive.
It is disconcerting to a household that used to be Merchant Navy to see a full blown hurricane processing north from the Azores, up by Portugal towards us.
It will “only” be a storm by the time it hits us tomorrow but the changes in direction are a significant concern..
The Night of the Big Wind was the most devastating storm ever recorded in Irish history. Known in As Gaeilge as ‘Oiche na Gaoithe Moire’, the hurricane of 6th and 7th January 1839 made more people homeless in a single night than all the sorry decades of eviction that followed it.
As part of the Scottish first annual Heritage Awareness Day the Ardchattan Parish Archive will be open all day from 10.30 am here at Kintaline Farm, Benderloch.
Come along to see what is in the archive : maps, books, records, images ..
Share your family tree, learn some more family connections, find out about the places locally.
Bring images and records to be scanned, donations of these are very welcome to learn from and share.
