Another return visit to Growing Communities allotment in Golcar. We love it here - the views are amazing and it was lovely to see all the work going on! Today 3 of us joined the regular volunteers digging over a new potato patch ready for planting. 2 hours later we were half way through the plot and satisfied with our labours. We look forward to returning to this special place again soon.

OK so it was not exactly Mediterranean temperatures but we were treated to some warm sunshine today as we helped Growing Communities lift 35kg of potatoes from the beds we had helped dig over earlier in the year.

Some beds had been overtaken a little by dock leaves so some of the spuds were a little harder to find than others! Nonetheless this was a satisfying task and by midday we had them dug ready for sorting, washing, weighing and shipping off to the Meltham Food Bank and Marsden Co-op.

Leaving the site with a gifted share of fork damaged seconds plus some other tasty surplus veg made this task rewarding in more ways than one!

Zena Whalley worked well hard on this morning's Community Mission, uncovering a long lost flower bed and harvesting potatoes at the Growing Communities Project allotment site in Golcar.

For today's mission we were gifted with sunshine and fabulous views at the Growing Communities site in Golcar.

Our second visit to this inspiring venture, our task today was uncovering and digging over a big plot for planting potatoes. After two years covered and a wet winter the job seemed a daunting one with heavy clay soil providing a full body workout!

Each taking a section of the plot and working hard while chatting in the warm sun, what seemed like an impossible task rapidly transformed into a neatly turned over patch ready for the spuds! All agreed it was very satisfying.

Great job done today by Tom, Tom, Zena, Kati, Annie, David and Louise. Thank you also to Jan, Sam and Chris from Growing Communities for welcoming us again.

The potatoes will supply the Welcome Centre, helping feed Huddersfield's homeless communities, and also be sold through local retailers to buy next year's seeds. We can't wait to come back to harvest the crop!

There is lots going on at the site throughout the year and with plans for a pond and lots more crops it will be a place where communities can meet, work and grow together.

We had allotment of fun this morning at the Growing Communities Golcar field!

The project is run by Sanctuary Kirklees and is about building connections with each other and the land through growing vegetables, plants and trees. The project will involve asylum seekers and refugees communities within Kirklees and the the wider local community. It is in a beautiful location in the Colne Valley surrounded by newly planted trees.

Since leasing a plot of land in 2019 they have had a great first year of growing. Our job today was to dig and weed over two potato beds ready for next year's crop. It was tough work but there was lots of friendly chat and teamwork and with four willing volunteers in Kati, David, Tom and Louise the job was finished in a couple of hours. We even even got to take home a few freshly unearthed potatoes that had been missed in the autumn harvest!

Thanks to the Growing Communities volunteers for welcoming us and we look forward to coming back again.