St Michaels Youth Project, Orchard Park Hull

St Michael's have the enviable job of working with young people day in and day out. Some of them wanted to try growing their own and managed to plant a herb garden, fruit trees, rhubarb, spinich, Potatoes, strawberrys and beans.

Sadly the beans where victims of the dry hot summer we had (they didn't get enough watering) but everything else did wonderfully well and a few of the hard workers returned to collect some of the crop.

Teenagers ever conscious of their image didn't want to be in the pictures but the crops speak for themselves.

Over the winter we plan to do some fruit tree planting and turn half of their allotment plot into an orchard to make it more manageable to grow on.

We really need a volunteer who can help with watering for this project so do let us know if you live near Clough Road and can help.