February 2014

As part of Student Volunteer Week, a dozen students supported by Brighton University and Santander staff  turned a chalk wasteland into a fruit growing area on a beautiful spring day. First they had to finish pickaxing out the chalk and subsoil.Then they went behind the compost loo to collect the bags of humanure that have been composting away. They added it to the hole and shoveled some of the topsoil back in, then pushed up wheelbarrows of compost up our… Read More »STUDENTS, STEWS, COMPOST LOOS AND BOYSONBERRIES

Participants were today given their level 2 certificates for food safety after a successful 10 week vegetarian cooking course. The course run by youth group Trailer Trashed taught a range of vegetarian cooking recipes and techniques. The 11 participants were supported by youth volunteers from Trailer Trashed, volunteer nutritionist Louise Comerford, volunteer cook Jo Pearson and founder Carly North. Each week young people split into smaller groups facilitated by a youth member of Trailer Trashed to prepare and cook a… Read More »TRAILER TRASHED COOKING COURSE