Our next Community Beach Clean is Sunday 26th September 9:30am Deal Pier

 This is part of the Great Big Green Week and the Great British Beach Clean

Survey for the Dover District Climate Forum

 If you can spare 5-10 minutes to complete this survey, the newly formed Independent Climate Action Forum for Dover (an affiliation of local environmental groups concerned about the climate crisis) would like to hear from you.

They are gathering information to be able to present our local councils a summary of our concerns and priorities.

The Survey runs to the 27th September.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3W76H6X 

 

ICEAF-DD also has its own Facebook page

Deal Heritage Day Events at Captains Garden 19th September

 

The Great Big Green Week activities in Deal, September 18 -26 #GreatBigGreenWeek

Every day at the Astor
Littering the Astor: Rubbish Poetry. 

An exhibition of art and poetry around rubbish picked up on the streets of Deal.

Helen Charlton, #PickDealClean 

 

Sunday 19th
Captain’s Garden Open Day 10am-2.30pm

part of Heritage Open Days  

Saturday 25th
East Kent Climate Action Stall in Union St market, 

giving away trees, plants, ideas for sustainable living and much more.

Surprises on Walmer Green and near Deal Castle, 

between 10 and 11am

Meet the Deal Station gardeners

Find out what the Deal Station Garden Group does

Deal Railway Station 2-2.30pm

Sunday 26th
Great British Beach Clean 

9.30am starting at Deal Pier. 

Deal With It

EKCA Guided walk exploring community gardens cared for by the people of Deal. 

Starts from Sandown Castle Garden 2.30pm finishing at Captain’s Garden approx 4pm.

Deal Hop Farm: Public Hop Pick at Captains Garden Weds 15th 3.30PM

 

The Deal Hop Farm has its 2nd harvest of the 2021 season on Wednesday 15th September - ( The first one last week produced a cracking 120kgs harvested from 70 sites in and around the town).

This harvest is especially important as it is the one which Time & Tide (our brewers) turn into a Green Hop Beer. This should be available in the towns pubs in about 2-3 weeks time

The site at the Captains Garden will be harvesting theirs on Weds from 3:30pm - please bring a chair and some gloves and if possible email us at info@dealhopfarm.org.uk so we can check numbers

The Captains Garden is opposite Deal Castle on Victoria Rd

The final Deal Hop Farm harvest will be on Monday 20th September

Apple Glean 9th September 2021

 

Thank you to our volunteers - Lucy, Bill, Clair, Jayne & Steve on our first small apple glean (the glean was small and the apples were just right ) 
We collected some 210kgs of lovely worcester apples from Eastry - many thanks to farmer David Bradley for hosting us

Food going to:
- Deal Foodbank
- Dover Foodbank
- Dover Pantry
- Sandwich Pantry
- Sandwich Aged UK
- Deal Aged UK
- Deal Salvation Army
- BECHANGE at Aylesham
- United Families
- Hornbeam Primary School

gleaning@dealwithit.org.uk

Deal Castle Beach Clean 30th August 2021

Thank you to our 15 volunteers on today's bank holiday beach clean - weather not as advertised Iam afraid but we did well with about 8 bags collected (including a head and arm !)

Dead seal by fishing boats reported

Thanks to Sonja, Lucy, Nick, Cheryl & Steve for setting up

Next Beach Clean will be at the Pier on Sunday 26th September starting at 9:30am

BEE Fest 29th August 2021

Thank you to everyone who came to the garden today ... some 306 of you ... and the generous donations which amounted to £290. All of which gets ploughed back into rhe garden (pun intentional)

Thanks to Dover Beekepers and our garden volunteer team of Penny, Lucy, Anna, Sonja, Jenny, Rose, Rafi & Steve for running the event and of course to our resident bees (bumble, solidary and honey)

We will be open for Deal Hop Farm harvest in Setptember and the Heritage Day Tour on 19th Sept

Beach Clean Bank Holiday Monday 30th August 2021 4pm

 

Glean 26th August 2021

Another big glean today for Felix and local food charities. Some 1.5tons of potatoes and cabbage collected by volunteers from Deal and Hythe.

Big thanks again to Trevor at Boundary Rd Farm and our local Deal With It volunteers Lucy, Jill, Clair, Tim, Sally & Steve.

Local food going to Sandwich Pantry, Deal Foodbank, Deal Age Uk, Deal Salvation Army and United Families #WeAreGleaners #gleaning

Bee Fest and Open Day at Captain's Garden 29th August 2021

 

We have Dover Beekeepers with us on our Open Day at the Captain's Garden on Sunday 29th August

You Can book a place here or turn up on the day

1st Cherry Glean - 29th July 2021

Deal With It - Gleaning Group:

Thank you to our gleaning volunteers today: Jill, Julia, Sandra, Kieran, Sally, Tim, Lucy. Sarah L, Sonja and Steve.

Some 30kgs of Cherries picked + our colleagues from Hythe collected another 15kgs (Thats a lot) going to:

• Emmanus Dover, 
• Sunshine Cafe Dover, 
• Dover Pantry, 
• Deal Foodbank, 
• Deal Salvation Army, 
• Deal Aged UK, 
• United Families, 
• BEChange in Aylesham, 
• TalkItOut 
• Chequers Community Meals
•  and Our Kitchen in Thanet

Big thanks to David Bradley at Selsdon Farm in Eastry for hosting us

Cabbage and Potato Glean 22nd July 2021

 

Thank you to our gleaners on a hot cabbage & potato glean today (Sarah, Jill, Lucy and Steve)

Working with colleagues from Hythe Community Environmental Group we collected over 600kgs of cabbages for Felix plus about 200kgs of spuds for local food charities in thanet, sandwich, deal and dover:

• Sandwich Pantry
• Dover Pantry
• Deal Salvation Army
• United Families
• Our Kitchen Thanet
• Dover Foodbank
• Emmaus Dover

Thanks to our farmers trevor and steve for hosting us at Boundary Rd Farm

Community Beach Clean - Sunday 25th July 4pm

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Our next Community Beach Clean is this Sunday 25th July at 4pm on the prom in front of Deal Castle.

All welcome

#PickDealClean #beachclean #keepkentclean

Open Day at Deal's Secret Garden - Captains Garden @ Deal Castle

The community gardeners who are bringing back into community use the historic walled garden at Deal Castle have their next open day on Sunday 4th July 10am to 3pm

The Captains Garden is on Victoria rd opposite the drawbridge of Deal Castle

The garden is a work-in-progress one 🙂 our paths can be rough in places so may not be suitable for all

Entrance is free

Tea and Coffee + cake available

please book in advance using the following link or use the NHS QR code on site on the day

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/captains-garden-deal-castle-meadows-open-day-tickets-152187710539

Community Orchard at the Captains Garden - #CrowdFundKent

Help us create an orchard for The Captain’s Garden!

We’ve launched an ambitious new project as part of our mission to bring the historic Captain’s Garden back to life – and we need your help.

The plan is to create a beautiful and diverse orchard that can be enjoyed by everyone in Deal and the surrounding area, by planting a range of 100 fruit, nut and flowering trees around the garden and lining the paths.

Apple, pear, cherry and nut trees will add to the biodiversity of the garden, as well as providing a beautiful oasis for people and wildlife alike. In particular, the blossom in springtime and the fruit in autumn will be enjoyed by everyone.

We want this to be a space that can be used by the whole community for practical activities and educational purposes, as well as for socialising and relaxing in the nature-filled surroundings. We aim to involve the local community in creation of the orchard, through volunteer tree planting days and activities to care for the trees as they grow.

We plan to start planting trees in Autumn 2021, with a series of orchard-related events held throughout the project.

How you can help

We have launched a crowd-funding campaign as part of #CrowdFundKent which is backed by KCC to raise the £6,215 needed to buy trees, compost, mulch and tools, and to train volunteers and community members to plant and nurture the new orchard.

You can contribute to the crowd-funder via Spacehive, using this link: https://www.spacehive.com/captainsgardenatdealcastle

The crowd funding runs to 1st September - its a all-or-nothing crowdfund. If we do not met our target your pledge will not be taken. If we raise more money it will go directly into planting and paths for the garden.

For more details see the Deal With It contact info@dealwithit.org.uk

Sandown Community Beach Clean 31st May 2021

Thank you to all our volunteers on todays Sandown Castle Community Beach Clean ... over 12 bags picked, a chair, assorted pipes, some bling and two squids.

Thanks to all volunteers especially Vicky, Charles, Wendy & Steve for organising

Next Clean is at Walmer Castle Beach on Sunday 6th June - part of the #GBSpringClean #PickDealClean 

please book here

https://walmercastlebeachclean6thjune2021.eventbrite.co.uk

Whitsun Captain's Garden Open Day

Thank you to everyone who came to see the captains garden today - it was great to welcome at least 205 of you back. 

Many thanks for the £155 of cash donations which will go directly into the garden.

It was a great opportunity to meet and talk to you all about our plans for community orchard in the garden
https://www.spacehive.com/captainsgardenatdealcastle

A special thank you to our great team of volunteers who made everything happen so well today Lucy, Penny, Anna, Jenny, Rafi, Eileen, Rose, Amy, Sonja and Steve.

 
Many thanks to Eilnor and her team for the pop-up cafe for our tea and cakes x

A Deal Litter Diary #23 May 2021

One of my fellow pickers at the Station/Sainsbury's is bemused to see me on hands & knees in the bushy area at the front of the supermarket. 

I assure him that where there's a hedge, there's litter, & it'll be small fragments in a state of decomposition. 

Sure enough, as I rake out the undergrowth with my gloved hands, I pull out 100s...no, more likely 1000s of tiny pieces, mainly plastic.

Do you notice this kind of fine litter when you cast your eyes downwards?

#PickDealClean

cleanupcrew@dealwithit.org.uk

The Great British Spring Clean in Deal - #GBSpringClean

 

PICK DEAL CLEAN

This is a facebook group set up by Helen Charlton of the Clean Up Crew, Linda Ford of Sandown Castle Community Garden and ourselves to link all together the individuals and groups doing litter picks in the town and work with DDC to reduce the levels of litter in the town

April has been the first month we logged our activity:

The group has virtual gathering this Sunday 16^th at 7pm – Meeting Link

The group is planning a two action days during the #GBSpringClean on 9th June and xxxx plus a final tally on the 13th June at 4:30pm on the beach opposite Deal Castle plus a number of pop-up events in the town.

COMMUNITY BEACH CLEANS

We had a good pilot beach clean in April and have two setup (you MUST book in advance) to support the Great British Spring Clean.

Bank Holiday Monday – 31^st May Sandown Castle Beach – Book here

Sunday 6^th June – Walmer Castle Beach – Book here

We hope to release dates for the rest in June

CLEAN UP CREW

The Monthly cleans at Deal Station have been going since the rule of 6 was reinstated – 1^st Thursday of every month at 2pm Plus one 2 weeks after during busy periods