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Our fifth harvest supper! Like last year, our harvest was relatively early and much of our produce was finished by the end of September. But this year we did have leeks – funny little green wisps in March, huge fat … Continue reading →

We were delighted that London Road Station’s underpass mosaic was nominated for a national Community Rail Award in the ‘working with young people’ category. As nobody from Albion in the Community could attend, I went along to the Association of Community … Continue reading →

We are great fans of BH Food Partnership – they’ve supported us from the beginning, when the garden was created in 2011 and indeed before that when we had an extraordinary street party in Ditchling Rise when we covered Shaftesbury Place … Continue reading →

We’ve cleared the remains of beans and sweet corn in the central raised bed. They seemed to have got very scrappy and didn’t grow brilliantly. Before we do any more planting, I decided to check the ph of the soil. … Continue reading →

In August last year, a team of 12 16 year olds from a National Citizen Service scheme led by Albion in the Community were creating a wonderful mural in the underpass at London Road Station. At the time, the team … Continue reading →

Squirrels don’t plant sunflowers, I thought to myself as I watered the shady garden this evening. So how did a drooping mini-sunflower come to be sitting in one of our ceramic planters? Well, it’s August – there are mad humans about the … Continue reading →

Though we tend to focus on our edible growing plot, we love our platform planters and the tree pits outside London Road Station. The platform planters are quite shady while the tree pits are in full sun, with young trees … Continue reading →