Gorse Hill City Farm, Leicester, UK
Gorse Hill City Farm Leicester
Gorse Hill City Farm in Leicester. A insight to what the farm has to offer.
Visit To Gorse Hill City Farm
Leicester
Part 1
GORSE HILL CITY FARM
This video is about GORSE HILL CITY FARM
Farm in Leicester, United Kingdom
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Gorse Hill City Farm, Summer
Glorious hot summer's day on our allotment at Gorse Hill City Farm, Leicester - an idyll.
The grass has grown long and gone wild, and we spend what is, we have been told our last summer as allotment holders at the farm after more than 20 years of growing flowers, shrubs and vegetables.
The decision to discontinue with the allotments was made by the trustees for Gorse Hill City Farm, and in particular, the chair Bill Matthews ( who has also asked us to remove any items and plants by 1 August. He clearly has no idea about plants and growing seasons. Nor does he have a sense of civility or human decency.
We have tried to reason with Mr Matthews, and also written to our MP Liz Kendall, the Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and Leicester City Council for support, but apparently Bill Matthews can do what he likes, so he is. May he be seen as the soulless and indifferent grey man he clearly is.
Leicester city farm
Leicester city farm
The Goats at Gorse Hill City Farm
Gorse Hill City Farm May 2012
Gorse Hill City Farm on a windy day in May
Gorse Hill City Farm Allotment Garden
A film showing our allotment in bloom in late June.
Music by Li Xiangting Youlan
Reunion : Gorse Hill City Farm
This is the video representation of the first Adorkable Mates reunion. For this meet up we decided to meet half way, which happened to be at the local City Farm.
The day was a miserable cold and wet one cut we made the most of it and it was lovely seeing each other again.
Now, this video is longer than the standard 5 minutes maximum. However, in the very first video we made where the rules where laid out it was stated that reunion videos don't count. If the video does not count towards the weekly videos for each person then It should not count towards the limits and restrictions.......
Hopefully.....
Hi megs here. This video was inspired by #theartproject and this video
Gorse Hill City Farm - Last days of an allotment
We took our first plot at Gorse in 1991, clearing away grass and weeds and planting potatoes and onions as our first crops. Robin worked at the farm then, and he gave us some young hawthorns to heel in - this has become the hedge of some 10 feet height over the course of our 20 year occupation, bordering the allotments.
As we cultivated the soil in our first plot, so we took on a second and third and so on. They were called Community Plots back then. No-one else took plots until Brigit arrived. Brigit was in her 70's, and a very keen gardner. She introduced us to chard and phacelia, which we continue to grow from the original plant seeds today. Tragically, Brigit was only with us at the farm for a couple of years when she was diagnosed with cancer and died after a short illness. Brigit was a kindred spirit, being a socialist and nature lover like us. Changes came when a new building was added to the farm, and Brigit's carefully worked plot was lost under debris which now forms a grassy incline.
At the same time as Brigit being a plot holder, this was the only time when the farm had a dedicated full time gardner - Terry. Terry was also around for two years, and this is the only time that all the garden space was worked and producing. After a period of being joined by friends Mark and Bob,when we also cultivated the herb garden for the farm, once again we were on our own and took up the plots our friends had left.
During our 20 years, we have cultivated the soil with manure from the farm and fertilisers such as bonemeal and seawed meal. Everything we grew was organic. We planted blackcurrent bushes, raspberry canes, rosemary bushes, strawberries, fennel plants, lavender, sage, mint, oregano; sowed many flowers including cornflowers, corncockle, phacelia, poppies, cosmia, rudbeckia, hollyhocks, echinacea, marigolds, nasturtiums, sunflowers; grew many vegetables including garlic, onions, beetroot, chard, potatoes, carrots, beans, courgettes, cabbage,and discovered what grew best. Cultivation takes time. That's it attraction - you are working at the same pace as nature and with the seasons and unpredictable weather. You become at one with the land, as we did.
Now we have been told this is our last summer as allotment holders at the farm after more than 20 years of growing flowers, shrubs and vegetables. We have not abandoned our allotment, we have been forced off.
The decision to discontinue with the allotments was made by the trustees for Gorse Hill City Farm, and in particular, the chair Bill Matthews ( who has also asked us to remove any items and plants by 1 August. He clearly has no idea about plants and growing seasons. Nor does he have a sense of civility or human decency.
We have tried to reason with Mr Matthews, and also written to our MP Liz Kendall, the Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and Leicester City Council for support, but apparently Bill Matthews can do what he likes, so he is. May he be seen as the soulless and indifferent grey man he clearly is, with no feeling for or knowledge of cultivation or of community, but simply a pen pusher who likes to kick ass, and who has taken community out of Community Farm.
My partner is now 73 years old, and cannot contemplate starting again. I am 55 and would find it very hard to start from scratch, having lost the energy of youth. There has been no recognition of the amount of work and patience that goes into cultivation in this self serving decision.
Gorse Hill City Farm Goats and Gardens
Gorse Hill City Farm Goats and Gardens
Places to see in ( Leicester - UK )
Places to see in ( Leicester - UK )
Leicester is a city in England’s East Midlands region. Leicester Cathedral, where Richard III was reinterred in 2015, has stood at the city’s heart for over 900 years. Close by, the King Richard III Visitor Centre tells the story of the king’s life and death and displays his original burial site. The ruins of Leicester Castle, where Richard III spent some of his last days, lie in Castle Gardens, near the River Soar.
Leicester is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city of Leicester lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest.
Leicester is at the intersection of two major railway lines—the north/south Midland Main Line and the east/west Birmingham to London Stansted CrossCountry line; as well as the confluence of the M1/M69 motorways and the A6/A46 trunk routes. Leicester is the home to football club Leicester City, a club that caused a major upset by winning the 2016 Premier League title, the first new English championship winners for several decades at the time.
There are ten Scheduled Monuments in Leicester and thirteen Grade I listed buildings: some sites, such as Leicester Castle and the Jewry Wall, appear on both lists.
20th-century architecture: Leicester University Engineering Building (James Stirling & James Gowan : Grd II Listed), Kingstone Department Store, Belgrave Gate (Raymond McGrath : Grd II Listed), National Space Centre tower.
Older architecture:
Parks: Abbey Park, Botanic Gardens, Castle Gardens, Gorse Hill City Farm, Grand Union Canal, Knighton Park, Nelson Mandela Park, River Soar, Victoria Park, Watermead Country Park.
Industry: Abbey Pumping Station, National Space Centre, Great Central Railway.
Places of worship: Shree Jalaram Prarthana Mandal (Hindu temple), the Stake Centre of the LDS Church's Leicester England Stake, Jain Centre, Leicester Cathedral, Leicester Central Mosque, Masjid Umar (Mosque), Guru Nanak Gurdwara (Sikh), Neve Shalom Synagogue (Progressive Jewish).
Historic buildings: Town Hall, Guildhall, Belgrave Hall, Jewry Wall, Secular Hall, Abbey, Castle, St Mary de Castro, The City Rooms, Newarke Magazine Gateway.
Shopping: Abbey Lane-grandes surfaces, Beaumont Shopping Centre, Belvoir Street/Market Street, Fosse Shopping Park, Golden Mile, Haymarket Shopping Centre, Highcross, Leicester Lanes, Leicester Market, Oadby, St Martin's Square, Silver Arcade area, Thurmaston Retail Village & Wigston.
Sport: King Power Stadium – Leicester City FC, Welford Road – Leicester Tigers, Grace Road – Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Beaumont Sports Complex - Leicester Lions Speedway, Leicester Sports Arena – Leicester Riders, Saffron Lane sports centre – Leicester Coritanian Athletics Club
( Leicester - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Leicester . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Leicester - UK
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Inspire1 flying around the farm in Leicester
Flying around the farm with Dad and my Inspire1. Not edited or anything... I'm still learning how to use this thing. Learning is iterative!
Full Route Visual | First Leicester 74 - Leicester to Anstey | 32643 (KP54 AZF)
So this was the Gemini I wanted all along, and unlike with Arriva, I track it down on bustimes, I see it's on this route (I was just starting to give as yesterday they were all on the 22) and so I go and get it.
So how about this for hot weather. We might have missed the 38.5C record set in Kent in August 2003 but it has been boiling. Every bus I've been on has seen people fanning themselves. On a positive note, it's just what I needed to improve this visual, where on the old one, the autumn colours really stood out. I just wanted it green like all the others. For that reason I just need the 29 now even though that's hardly getting DB250s at the minute, yet they still had one on the 53 today along with a 158-branded Sapphire.
I didn't get to redo the return on this run, it overheated, but I'm fine with the old one anyway, so maybe when it comes to the 29, just a little bit cooler since I have seriously got to retry both ways.
This visual in question is the simple and straight 74 from Leicester Haymarket Bus Station to Anstey via St. Margaret's Way, Anstey Lane, Gorse Hill City Farm, Calver Hey Road, Beaumont Centre, Gorse Hill and Anstey Village Centre.
It is operated by First Leicester (making Anstey a pretty unique village) and it runs every 15 minutes and the main allocation is 02-plate Volvo B7Ls and 05-plate Volvo B7RLEs usually with slots for the Volvo B7TLs, which obviously, I got this visual from. Streetlites can also appear. I will miss these Geminis which are due to be replaced by B9TLs later this year or early next year.
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Magpie has a bath at Gorse Hill City Farm
Magpie bathes in water dispenser at Gorse Hill City Farm
Meet the new Leicester Monitor Farm
Jack Smith is hosting the new AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Monitor Farm near Leicester.
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Gorse hill farm - THEY'RE COMING TO ATTACK!
Gorse hill farm - THEY'RE COMING TO ATTACK!