Another cold, damp day but the volunteers’ spirits are never dampened. Just see what’s growing, what’s being harvested, the new beds being prepared – and all the smiling faces. The solemn faces only showed when the serious business of consuming delicious, freshly prepared vegetable soup was the job in hand.

New seeds all sorted into families

Harvesting leeks

Edging the beds

Tiny onion plants pricked out

Edging the beds

New bed made this morning

Weeding in a polytunnel

Polytunnel crops

Washing the newly harvested carrots

Bringing the bread to have with the soup

Coming in for lunch

Concentrating on eating the delicious veggie soup