Today was the Earthworks Summer Fair here in St Albans. Earthworks is a local charity that offers trainees, often with learning difficulties or mental health problems, work experience and training in horticultural and land-based skills. They have a site in St Albans where they manage it on environmental principles and they use it to grow fruit and vegatables that they then sell at the monthly St Albans Farmers’ Market.
Mr C and I were helping out on the WWA stand and took a nice walk down the Alban Way to get there this morning.
Unfortunately the weather hasn’t been kind to us today and brief dry patches are interspersed with quite heavy rain and strong winds. All of the stall holders managed to set up there stalls though – even if some of us were a bit damp by the end of it!
The WWA has a stall there as an opportunity to tell more local people about the work that we do there and about the reserve in general. The reserve is a bit tucked away so we often do find that people can live down the road for years before finding out that we exist.
Let’s just hope that people do brave today’s showers to come out and learn about the WWA as well seeing some of the excellent work that Earthworks carry out in the local area.
Strange – that as Reserve Manager for the Watercress Wildlife Association, I have never heard of you and certainly don’t know that you helped out on the stall at the Earthworks Summer Fair – or are you one of our committee members in disguise?