Tidy up at Deal Station

The Deal Station Gardeners group has initiated a tidy up campaign around Deal Station.

Last Thursday 12 volunteers cleared the Ramsgate walk way from London Rd and they are again in action on Thursday 30th August on the London/ Car Park side between 4:30pm to 6pm

A cut of the meadow area will happen later in September

All volunteers welcome

Deal Station Garden Launch .....

We had Deal's Town Council Mayor - Marlene Burham down today at the Deal Station Garden for our grand openning today.

A big thank you all our sponsors who have supportted us: Deal Garden Centre, Jewsons of Deal, Rotary Club of Deal, Ripplevale School and our Partners at SE Railway.

The Garden currently comprises of just five large planters and is part of South Eastern's 'Adopt a Railway Station' scheme.

We are growing a mix of edible flowers, veg and fruit and hoping after a successful season to expand it on the station site.

All of this only possible due to the hard work of all our volunteers - we had 13 of them out today:

So a big thank you to Sarah & Alan, Adrian & Sue, Sally, Rose, Wendy, Tracy, David & Ros, Peter & Alison and Steve.

If you would like to get involved or could support us to extend the project please contact Sarah or Alan Gleave at food@dealwithit.org or phone 01304 389 553

Rose Planting

Sue, Wendy and Tracy conferring on planting strategy

Sue and Adrian getting the Beans supports in

Deal Station Garden: 1st Planting day

Sunshine at the 1st planting day at the Deal Station Community Garden. 

We had nine volunteers out today and managed to get all the perennials herbs, some fruit trees, stawberrys, a few onion sets and chance a few seeds.

The regular visits start from next weekend - we have a rota for maintenance and watering. If you want to get involve please contact Sarah or Alan at food@dealwithit.org or phone.01304 389553

Useful things we need if you want to donate:

- Wheelbarrow
- Hand tools
- Watering cans (large)
- Large plastic bottles e.g 4ltr coke/water. We need these for our watering system in the planters.

We hope to have our 'official openning' on Saturday 4th May

Deal Railway Community Garden Project Update

Hi all - We in the Station Community Gardening Group are starting to get quite excited 

 

Our Planters which are being built by the RippleVale School are due for delivery in 10 days :) 

 

We have had super generous donations from lovely people and groups to be announced later - it's looking v good for generous donations of topsoil and compost (donors tba later) .

 

There's still time to sign up to be part of this TEL 389553 to reserve your place on our lovely rota! are there any spare watering cans / spades /trowels looking for a good home?

 

We may need some spare barrows /hands for 12 - 3 Saturday 16th March BUT please telephone  389553 first.

 

Many hands should make light work and a delicious blooming Deal !!

 

food@dealwithit.org 

 

 

Kent Green Party slams rails cost rise

Kent Green Party rejects suggestions of a commitment to deal with Climate Change on the part of the Coalition Government as it seriously considers rail fare rises of up to 10%(1). Steve Dawe comments:

"The Coalition Government is clearly divided on Rail fares. Our rail fares, already the highest in the world(2), have been regulated so that they rise at the inflation rate plus 1%. The Coalition is, as usual, squabbling – in this case about making the 1% on the regulated fares – such as season tickets – 2% and up to 10% on other fares. The previous Government already added a third to the cost of buying a Network Rail card, making the minimum fare £13 rather than the previous £10. We have already seen how excessive fares on Eurostar led to reduced services at Ashford, and how new fast services in Kent have already been cut due to high ticket prices leading to low levels of passengers.

“Since Kent has the new distinction of being the part of the country with the worst levels of greenhouse gas emissions (2), we need real environmental leadership from Government.

“Kent Green Party rejects the idea that this Coalition Government is serious about tackling Climate Change, air pollution or noise from traffic. In order to do this, rail fares must become cheaper.

http://kentgreenparty.blogspot.com/2010/09/rail-fares-set-to-rise-up-to-10.html