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Save Teazle Wood

18/7/2012

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*UPDATE* The purchase of Teazle Wood has now been completed! Still looking to raise funds to payback the loan taken out to complete this amazing purchase! Well done to Lucy and her team! 
As a group that actively use Teazle Wood in Leatherhead for various events, we would like to highlight the need for donations of money needed to buy the last piece of wooldland for the community to use. This piece of woodland backs onto the Community Garden and is home to some wonderful newt ponds.
It is really important that we pull together to try and get the remaining funds.
Please help if you can. You WILL be doing something worthwhile :D

Why save Teazle Wood?
• It is the last sizable block of woodland in Leatherhead that forms a wildlife corridor between Bookham and Ashtead
• Is a proven educational resource for local people and schools
• Has therapeutic value for Combat Stress and Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the disabled
• It is the home of many rare and endangered species including newts

£90,000 is still needed for the smaller piece of Teazle Wood. (If most of the people of Leatherhead donated £9, this amount would be met!)
Please send cheques now payable to:
"Friends of Teazle Wood" to Lucy Quinnell, Rowhurst Forge, Oxshott Rd, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 0EN.
Please include name: address, telephone number, email & whether you would like to remain anonymous or whether you are happy to be named (amounts will not be disclosed unless you'd like. Receipts will be given)

Join the Friends of Teazle Wood on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/272340599448577
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Floods, foods and baby rodents

14/7/2012

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We had a very exciting day at the Garden this weekend. Weather started great but then the heavens opened and we all got drenched! It rained so much the water butts overfilled and started flooding the polytunnel!
Then the food arrived. Chard and onion quiche, pea and tomato bread, pea and beef patties, spiced rhubarb chutney, rhubarb and custard cake, beetroot and chocolate cake and a little homemade mayo! And it was all gone by lunchtime! The great thing was that the kids didn't even notice the beetroot in the chocolate cake and came back for more!
This got us thinking about what else we could make to sell at the stalls we have this August. A brainstorming session was participated by all!
We then did some harvesting of beetroot, chard, rhubarb and potatoes. When Jen and Chris were emptying the potato tyres of soil, we heard a small scream and everyone rushed over to find 4 baby rodents, with their eyes not even open yet! We took a picture and then covered them up and repositioned the tyre to allow mum to come back.
We also received two wonderful donations. The first from Alison. She brought along a car load of unwanted plants for us to use in the Garden. And then Jen donated her grass clippings and chicken bedding/manure from home to the compost heap :D

A fantastic weekend!


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More weeding but lots of chatting :)

7/7/2012

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First Saturday of July and things have sprung up again. Loads of peas and mange tout to pick and share around. We really did crack on with the weeding especially in the fruit cage which is looking fab again.
We also planted some carrots in tubs and some dwarf beans outside. The parsnips got thinned out and as we were doing so we were sniffing the roots! They had such a strong parsnip smell that it reminded me of Christmas!
It was great to see all the berry plants fruiting nicely. Our first red raspberry was spotted today and well as what looks like a bumper crop of blackberries growing!
All spotted a fantastic looking caterpillar which we think is a Knot Grass Moth. Check it out in the picture gallery and tell us if we are correct!

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