Lettuces and quick growing and rewarding. In as little as six weeks, you can be picking leaves for salads. That’s why they’re our July veg of the month! How to sow lettuces We tend to sow our lettuces in seed trays and let them grow on indoors for a few...
Tuppenny Barn Education has secured funding from Chichester District Council and West Sussex County Council for a new project, Sow and Thrive, starting in May 2024. This holistic project is designed to support vulnerable people in West Sussex, to improve life skills and health through participation, and help prepare people...
At the beginning of January, 5 members of the Tuppenny team attended the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC). This alternative farming conference is in its 15th year, and brings together farmers, land workers and experts from across the world. The ORFC is part of a growing radical move for change...
This month, we hear from our Social and Therapeutic Horticulture lead, Jane. She tells us how plants can foster hope and trust in us all. Jane’s story When I initially made the career move from psychiatry to horticulture, people often signalled their understanding with the words “plants don’t answer back”....
Over the last six months, the Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) programme has been working on a long term project to create an accessible raised bed that can be used by clients with physical challenges. We were awarded a generous donation from The Finnis Scott Foundation and purchased the specially...
What are we cropping in the field at the moment? Well, in short, plenty! Tomatoes of every shape, colour and size, cucumbers (including the round, yellow Crystal Lemon variety), chillis, sweet peppers, courgettes, beetroot, leeks, chard, a range of kales, kaibroc (a cross between broccoli and Chinese kale which crops...
Good evening all, today I have spent most of the day cutting flowers as we have a large wake tomorrow and am keen that we honour the lady whose life is being celebrated by making the centre look its best. We have some pretty dahlias ready for cutting and...
Newsletter sent: 08/08/2021 Good evening all, if we needed evidence at Tuppenny Barn of the seasons changing, you only need to look at our orchard. There are plums already ripe for picking and our apple harvest is also beginning to come online. Traditionally these fruits are generally only ripening...
