[Hazelhurst-Newsletter] September newsletter and more!
Hazelhurst Admin
admin at hazelhurst.coop
Fri Sep 14 10:44:09 GMT 2012
Here, after a summer break is the newsletter from Hazelhurst CSA. Lots
has happened since the last newsletter, most importantly the vegbag
scheme has started and is a roaring success!
This newsletter contains important information about the upcoming
public meeting and AGM - we hope everybody will come to this.
There is also an advert for a job at Hazelhurst.
Attached is the pretty version, easy to read and illustrated. But if
your computer can't cope with a pdf file, then here's the simple text:
Hope to see you on October 3rd.
Newsletter no 11, September
2012
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This e-newsletter brings you a regular update on Hazelhurst Community
Supported Agriculture Co-operative. To subscribe, email
admin at hazelhurst.coop
Events
Hazelhurst CSA Co-op Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 3rd October
6.00 drinks and snacks for 6.30 start
Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James St S1 2EW
Followed at 7.45 by
The Fun, Figures and Freedom of Community Food Initiatives
An illustrated discussion with Nick Weir
Nick is a founder member of Stroud Community Agriculture which is now
held up by the Soil Association as a Beacon Community Supported
Agriculture (CSA) project. He is also a founder member of Stroudco Food
Hub (http://www.stroudco.org.uk), which is providing a new economic
model for community food distribution
Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative will hold its
Annual General Meeting at 6.30 with a report on the last year at
Hazelhurst and election of the Management Committee. Everyone is welcome
to attend the AGM, although only members can vote
Please come to the meeting! And tell your friends. It’s a chance to
hear more about what’s happening in local food and about Hazelhurst.
There will be a chance to talk to some of the volunteers working for the
CSA and hear about the many ways you can be involved.
Members are receiving a notice of the meeting requesting nominations
for the Management Committee.
More Events
Hazelhurst CSA Co-op invites you to join us for
The Big Dig
Come to the field on Sunday 16th September and join us for some serious
digging in the potato patch
Get fresh air! Get fit! Get tired!
For details contact Stella on 07541209661 or stellah231 at gmail.com
Find out more at
www.bigdig.org.uk http://www.facebook.com/thebigdiguk
Weekend
There are plans afoot for a Women’s Creativity Weekend at Hazelhurst on
29th/30th September. May include camping if the weather is right.
Contact Stella for details on 07541209661 or stellah231 at gmail.com
Hazelhurst at the Rutland
On Wednesday 19th September there will be a Hazelhurst pub night at
the Rutland Arms (86 Brown St, S1 2BS) This is a regular event on
the 3rd Wednesday of the month
It’s for anyone who is involved and/or interested in Hazelhurst to get
together for a drink and a chat. If it’s sunny (ha!) we’ll be in the
beer garden; if there are lots of us we may retire to the upstairs room;
otherwise we’ll be in the downstairs bar. Food is available, and any
time from 7pm is likely to find some of us there. Come and join us!
News
The vegbags go live!
On 27th July the first weekly vegbags went out. Many of you will have
subscribed and we hope you are enjoying your veg. We have a fantastic
team of volunteers who have organised harvesting, transport and
distribution. Surplus produce is going to local restaurants and shops
and some is being sold on Albert Road on a Friday evening. Feedback from
customers has been enthusiastic and we look forward to the weekly vegbag
continuing throughout the year.
We’re looking for a Project Manager
Since Hazelhurst is now working so successfully we have received some
funding which will allow us to employ a part time project manager to
help take the business forward and develop the environmental justice
(local and global) aspect of the project.
If you are interested in the job, or know somebody who might be,
contact Joan ajmiller at blueyonder.co.uk
Or phone 0114 2498613
Job Title: Hazelhust CSA Project Manager
Job: A project manager is required to coordinate the cooperative’s veg
bag scheme and develop the environmental justice aspect of the
co-operative.
Organisation: Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative.
Job Description:
Hazelhurst CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a co-operative
enterprise growing vegetables sustainably in the Moss valley, just
beyond Sheffield’s SE ring road. A part time grower is in place
supported by volunteers. This new post is central in our ambition to
develop a thriving veg–bag scheme for the Heeley-Meersbrook community
and introduce more people to locally grown organic produce.
An exciting part is to develop the Environmental Justice aspect of the
job, locally and globally.
An experienced professional with good management and people skills, you
will manage and co-ordinate the business administration side of the
enterprise and play an important part in developing our new three year
plan. You will demonstrate good IT skills and sound financial
management, together with an understanding of the cooperative ethos.
Job Location: Home working with some travelling to the Hazelhurst field
site and within the local community.
Salary: £17.161 (hourly rate of £8.80) pro rata
Job Type: part-time, 12 months with the possibility of extending for a
second year.
Hours: 15 hours per week
Benefits: Opportunity to work with enthusiastic, committed volunteers
and contribute to the local food agenda.
Closing date: 12 noon, Monday 1st October. Interviews Tuesday 9th
October.
How to apply: Please contact Caroline Krzesinska, Fundraiser at
carolinekrz at gmail.com for a job description, person specification and a
simple application form.
Grower’s news
Harvesting has been going on apace at Hazelhurst over the past 2
months. We've dug up about 1,500 onions - all drying now in the
polytunnel. We've also dug up 700kg of potatoes - Cara and Nicola
proving to be the best for productivity and taste respectively.
In the tunnel the french beans have been prolific - over 100kg in all.
The tomatoes have been very slow to ripen due to low light levels - we
hope to start harvesting them mid September. We've recently pulled out
the indoor courgettes as the field sown plants are cropping well, and
the squashes are just ready - we hope to store them for the bags over
the winter. With all the rain, beetroot has been a success - volunteer
quote - "they're like bowling balls!" and the celeriac has also enjoyed
the wet weather.
Marion's bees have been feeding on blue flowered phacelia that was
sown as a green manure - now it's going to seed we plan to chop it down
and leave it to rot into the beds to increase fertility. This will also
provide a mulch over the winter. We'll be sowing rye grass in the old
potato beds later in the season which we can dig back in next spring to
improve soil structure.
Volunteering on the land
Report from Stella, Volunteer co-ordinator
September - time of mists and mellow fruitfulness. The skies begin to
darken and the leaves to fall and yet the days just now are warm and
sunshine ripens all the pumpkins, just when we thought it wouldn’t.
The courgettes are still going strong we are harvesting a wheelbarrow
full each week and most delicious they are as well. The tomatoes are
almost ripe; some are red enough but Matt says they are not to be picked
because the red ones help the green ones to ripen. So we will have to
wait until they are all ripe before you have tomatoes in the veg bags.
The onions and potatoes are all harvested. We could not keep them in
the ground any longer because of airborne fungal diseases. Now they are
all safely stored in the perfect conditions in some kind person’s
garage.
There are always mangetout peas to pick although the French beans are
dwindling, as the runner beans are ripening ready to take their place.
The beetroot we are harvesting are huge - some as big as bowling woods,
and the swede still in the ground are the size of a footballs.
There are more and more volunteers enjoying helping on the land at
Hazelhurst, 9 or 10 each work day at the most. If you haven’t
volunteered yet, now would be a good time to join in the fun. We need
your help more than ever. There’s so much to harvest and there’s
weeding, clearing and soil preparation, seed sowing and planting out new
crops. It is enjoyable working together and helps you lose your
inhibitions and get talking. One quiet shy volunteer when we were
discussing Occupy, said ‘I may be old fashioned but what is needed is a
revolt’.
The Earth rewards our labour of love with an abundant harvest.
Yours with gratitude, Stella.
Getting involved
Hazelhurst needs lots of help and there are lots of different ways you
can be involved.
Volunteering on the land – the days are every Wednesday and Thursday
and 2 Sundays per month. Contact stellah231 at gmail.com or phone Stella on
07541209661 for details.
The next volunteering Sundays are 16th September (also known as The Big
Dig)
& 7th October
Or you can help with administration, fundraising, finance, IT,
publicity, marketing, distribution, organising events, training, giving
talks, writing newsletters, or just joining in. Contact
admin at hazelhurst.coop to discuss. We’d love to hear from you!
Who are we?
Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Co-operative is based
on a field in the Moss Valley, just beyond the ring road. Our aim is to
grow and distribute organically grown, affordable food for the benefit
of the community, using ecologically sustainable methods and to protect
and enhance biodiversity.
What's your inspiration? Tell us about your ideas for Hazelhurst CSA by
coming to the AGM on 3rd October, or by emailing admin at hazelhurst.coop.
Have a look at the website www.hazelhurst.coop
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updates about Hazelhurst CSA, you can do so by sending email to:
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