Thinking of Joining The Deal Hop Farm in 2025 ?
We have our 9th Season Launch Meeting at the Lighthouse on Weds 5th Feb from 6:30pm ..
if you want more details please email dealhopfarm@gmail.com
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(please DM if they are yours)
To Launch SOS Deal & Walmer
a Public meeting booked at
Walmer Parish Hall at 5.30pm on Fri 3rd Jan
and we expecting the national campaign group Surfers against Sewage, and SOS Whitstable
We have decided to Postpone Tomorrow's Beach Clean in Walmer to the Following Sunday 15th Dec at 10am
Forecast is Heavy Rain and 50-60mph Gusts tomorrow so not the best weather for beach cleaning, xmas hats and mince pies :)
See you on the 15th at the Sea Cafe
Thank you to everyone who supported of film shows of ‘Six
Inches of Soil’ and our apologies to anyone who we could not fit in. We had 79
people see the film and at the first showing we were lucky to have 5 local
farmers present
Many thanks to Jack Scott for speaking at both events and to
the Kent Museum of the Moving Image for hosting us. We are especially grateful
to their volunteers for looking after us so well.
We took some £268 in donations which as well as covering our
costs of £118.64 (for the film licenses & printing) allowed us to donate
£150 to the Kent MoMI
Audience members can give feedback on the film : https://forms.gle/brn1NKj3gvwzBLY67
You can now stream the film (£)in the UK on Amazon Prime or Vimeo .
The film producers have a ‘Dig
Deeper’ section on our website to discover more and the Six
Inches of Soil BOOK! “Six Inches of Soil: How to Heal Our Soils,
Ourselves, and Our Communities Through Regenerative Farming”.
#SixInchesOfSoil
We were joined by a squad of 4-6 seals today which was nice.
Our next Beach Clean will be at Walmer on Sunday 8th December 10am meeting at the Sea Cafe .. xmas themed one with mince pies :)
Thank you to our 16 volunteers at today's apple glean in Worth - we collected and distributed some 1.3tons to FareShare Kent and local food charities and schools:
If your charity or school would like to get produce please email gleaning@dealwithit.org.uk
This was our 40th glean of the year and so far we have collected and distributed 17 tons of produce
Thanks again to Rory &Verity at Felderland Farm PYO for hosting us again
#gleaning
Thank you to our 20 volunteers on today's #GreatBritishBeachClean - We were logging what we found in quite a detailed way as part of the Marine Conservation Society citizen science survey of rubbish on the UK's beaches
Our next Beach Clean will be at Walmer Castle on Sunday 13th October starting at 10am
poo bags and fag ends around the prom shelters.
