Scotch bonnet

Harvest photos

Voodoo vegetables

Mud, blood or slime anyone? Jago, Morgane and Arthur at the magic potions

Messy work painting a cauldron black

Fishing for bugs

Pumpkin plates

Harvest Haloween was very well attended - we had loads of activities including the above, all the usual, feelie box, Jack Frost story performed by Arthur, Morgane, Jago and Eva, and not forgetting pumpkin soup and flapjacks to finish.  Thanks everyone!

Harvest Haloween

Thursday 28th October 2010

10:00 to 1:00

Kings Heath Community Centre 

Stay & Play

Activities for under 5s, over 5s welcome

Please bring a vegetable or two 

(for vegetable voodoo, not to eat)

£2.00 entry


Pumpkin soup, bread and flapjacks in garden at 12:15.

Weeding out the Brussels

It's a quiet time of year, but there's still work to do.

Tomato and basil soup today

Picking tomatoes and last of the basil

'Look Daddy, What's this?'

Cotton lavender I think?

Pair of Pears

Also, not strictly KHCC, picking blackberries this weekend, see below:

Potato day at KHCCSP

Getting our potato game ready

Digging up and finding the potatoes, then putting them in the boxes

Potato printing

More Courgettes anyone?

Courgette plants still going strong.  Will need to dig up spuds next week.

Picking Lettuce

Lovely morning in garden.  Picked more lettuce, more basil

A:'Is this an apple tree?'

Me: 'No, but this is an apple tree - can you see the little apples?'

A: 'Can we eat them?'

C: 'They're a bit small.'

D: 'They're not ripe until they are red.'

Cropping the courgettes

Courgettes to share with everyone!  Also salad and basil cropped.  Garden enjoyed by all.  Also thanks Fox Hollies for topping up our potato crop with earth.

What's on for under 5s Kings Heath this summer?

Well, at our own stay and play, Kings Heath Community Centre, we have our regular stay and play running throughout the summer on Thursdays 10 to 12.  Siblings welcome, although activities will be aimed at under 5s.  Sandwiches in Garden after, weather permitting.

Elsewhere, Billesley Lane are running various events on Fridays:

16th July 10 to 2 Trip to Umberslade

6th August 10 to 12 Woodland adventure at Moseley Bog

20th August 10 to 12 Walk and ride @ Kings Heath Park

27th August 10 to 12 Woodland adventure at Moseley Bog

Also we have: 

 

For more visit Highbury Children's Centre

Fox Hollies return

Fox Hollies, who last year built and tended our fantastic small raised beds, return today with more plants!

All is planted up now and looking forward to sharing veg.

Tending our garden

Inspired by Alys fowler, we finally get going on gardening, after a long cold spring.

Catching up - our history

There's bags more stuff available at the official Kings Heath Community Centre site.  The start of the stay & play group's involvement was in 2004 - we got funding to start develop a garden space.

Since then, we've slowly moved things on with a bit of help from Real Time Community Change and Highbury Cluster, working with Kings Heath Primary Playscheme on events like 'Tree Love' in 2007, extended radically by Alys Fowler and Oz of Clean and Green earlier this year.