Getting Ready

Won’t be too long now until ‘The Nutshell Garden’ makes it’s annual appearance at the festival down in Somerset.. Once again we have assembled a good reliable crew which is basically the same as last year! As you can see from the photos there is some interesting items for our display such as the straw-bale planters and the onion bottles. So it’s all hands on deck from now ‘til mid June!

Down at Worthy Farm

Down at Worthy Farm the midsummer sun kept the Nutshell Crew happy as we created our third Nutshell Garden... Green Futures have promoted us and we were given a 20’ x 20’ plot just at the entrance to the field. In front of us were the three lovely ponds and beside us the wooden entrance arch. Everyone worked hard and the garden was complete by Tuesday ready for the start of the festival on Wednesday.

The previous Wednesday was spent setting up camp in the Undleground. This was a logistical jigsaw but by sundown it was sorted and the storage and kitchen gazebos were up and functional. We spent the evenings sitting around our firedrum where Brian kept us entertained with his country and folk songs.

We held a sad little ceremony under the King’s Oak in remembrance of our friend Steffan who died tragically just before the festival and also scattered the ashes of former Nutshell Crew member Gary under that ancient tree..

Everyone is agreed that this years garden was the best to date..

Bangor2Bethlehem

Growing in a Nutshell was represented at a local event at the weekend. The ‘Bangor2Bethlehem’ group held the event at Hendre, near Bangor, to raise money for various eco-projects in Gaza..

Over the weekend, at Hendre, lots of volunteers made the Bangor2Bethlehem fund raiser event a success .So if you weren’t there, you can still donate to GREAN Palestine, a fantastic project!

GREAN Palestine plants trees, installs rainwater harvesting infrastructure, builds greywater systems, puts up fences and generally supports Palestinian farmers in developing and accessing their land. PLEASE help if you can!

Our Nutshell boards and bees and the giant sunflower puppet lent a cheerful and colourful aspect to the afternoon. We had a lovely time meeting old friends and making new ones.. a beautiful day in a beautiful place. In the evening there were bands but us older folk had by then returned home..