Dear students,
Thanks for your emails and blog posts - it's great to hear from you and how you are doing. I went to see Jefferson at Perry Court Farm a few weeks ago and he seemed to be doing fine as well.
I received the first farmer review sheet back from Alix, full of praise - which reminded me of the fact that you should all try to get your first review session with your farmer, and get the sheet filled in and sent back to me.
The other thing I wanted to remind you of is the crop observation assessment - I hope you'll all have chosen your crops by now that you want to follow through the season, and ideally made some first observations on paper.
This week I am teaching the Foundation Year about biodynamics - a combination of lectures and practical sessions in the garden. We did some weeding, planting, sowing and putting support netting up - the garden starts to look really great. Friday some peonies, snapdragons and sweet peas will go to the flower shop in the village, which has recently changed hands and is now owned by a lady who has a larger flower shop in Lewes. She is very keen on locally grown, organic flowers - so that is great. I reckon most flowers will go to her this year.
The coming weekend is the big meeting with the Trustees where the proposals of the Vision and Strategy Group will be approved (hopefully). That means start of the Rachel Carson Centre with integrated college garden, teaching kitchen, BD training etc. Keep your fingers crossed!
Keep your heads up - and keep posting to the blog!
Arjen
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