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Newark Harvest News January 2004 Issue 3, Part 1
Planning for the Year Ahead
Last year more than 3,000 adults and children were involved in the Newark Harvest project. They visited exhibitions and open days, at tended courses, took part in arts activities and received the project s newsletter.
Plans for the year ahead include a "First Aid in the Garden Course", a Horticulture Course, a "Plant- A-Pear" day, and a Scarecrow Festival. The project s work with the town's schools will continue. This includes "Sowing & Growing" sessions for teachers to help them develop their own fruit and vegeta ble gardens and a programme of arts activities for pupils
In 2003 the project initiated a programme of site improvements including installing new fencing at Fleming Drive, repairing fencing at Lincoln Road, constructing a roadway at Hawton Road, installing 20 new water tanks, and clearing rubbish from each of the five sites,
This year, fences will be erected at Bowbridge Road and Hawton Road , and hedges will be planted at all sites. Pupils from Newark High School are designing notice boards and clients from the National Probation Service are carving numbered marker posts for each plot.
The transformation of the Conservation Area at Hawton Road allotments will continue throughout 2004. Thanks to a growing number of volunteers the area now has an orchard, new hedgerows and a willow holt. Hedges have been laid and a living willow tunnel and hide have been planted. Students from the Department of Land based studies at Nottingham Trent University (Brackenhurst) will start work in February to manage the willow and ash trees on the site and to improve the drainage dykes and pond.
I would like to thank everyone who helped and supported Newark Harvest last year.
Gerry Price (project coordinator)
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Continued! >> Newark Newsletter Part 2 >>
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