Earthworks St. Albans is a registered charity that offers trainees, often with learning difficulties or mental health problems, work experience and training in horticultural and land-based skills. We have a two-acre site in Hixberry Lane, St. Albans. It is managed on environmental principles and we have open days a number of times a year. Members of the public are welcome to visit and buy our produce.
Earthworks staff and volunteers work - and learn - with the trainees to maintain the site, with its gardens, tree nursery, vegetable beds, shade tunnels and polytunnel.
Earthworks also has a contracts team that undertakes gardening and construction tasks for local individuals, institutions and organisations. We have a stall at the monthly St. Albans Farmers' Market where we sell fruit, vegetables, herbs and craft produced at Hixberry Lane.
And Now... The Earthworks Bag!
Newly available, the accessory of the season: The Earthworks Bag. A natural cotton carrier with long handles, proudly bearing the Earthworks logo and website address on one side. What is on the other side? Well, you'll have to buy the bag to find out.
Not only is it useful and practical, but you will be helping us to make people more aware of Earthworks. Any profit is put back into our projects.
We can post it to you at a cost of £3.50 per bag (including .50p p&p). If purchased directly from us – at the site, the office, or from the Farmers Market – they are £3.00. Cheques should be made payable to Earthworks, St. Albans (any added donation is, of course, welcome). Just let us know your name and address when you send in the cheque. Please call, email or write in.
The bag will also be available to buy at the Farmers Market and from our site at Hixberry Lane.
Product details: It is a super practical bag, strong enough to carry the heaviest of items but lightweight enough to fold up and put in your pocket or handbag. Portrait in orientation, 38cms (w) x 43cms (h) with long handles for carrying over the shoulder. Cotton weight is 140 gms (approx 5oz).
Earthworks in Early Spring
We have been busy tidying up the Earthworks site and during bad weather, working indoors on crafts.
The picture shows the market garden. We were the lucky recipients of an elegant sufficiency of mulch, donated by a local tree surgeon.
Logs for Sale!
Our new wood working project Woodworks@Earthworks is now selling logs.
We have lots of bags of logs for sale. They are priced at £4.50 per bag and available from site.
Kindling is also available at £4.50 per bag.
An Appeal
We need to apply for planning permission for our new site building and need some free advice as to how to do this most effectively. Perhaps a local surveyor or similar would be kind enough to offer a little of his/her time. As this process can take some time, please get in touch as soon as possible.
Winter Newsletter
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We Need your Help!
If you prefer to donate the old fashioned way, please make cheques payable to 'Earthworks, St. Albans' and send to:
- Earthworks, St. Albans,
- West Lodge, Hill End Lane
- ST. ALBANS AL4 0RA
