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Space Shed for city farm
Space Shed for city farm
We posted about Waltons Space Shed last year and many of you wondered what had happened to it. Well the good news is that its gone to a good home - Waltons has donated it to Stonebridge City Farm for use as a potting shed and to grow vegetables and fruit inside. Its already in situ on the farm which was set up 40 years ago and works with people experiencing social exclusion or learning and physical difficulties. Pictured below are Michele Campbell (Darth Vader), Stonebridge City Farm Education and training; Annie Warburton (Princess Leia), Stonebridge City Farm volunteer; and Stephen Gee (Han Solo) Stonebridge City Farm operations co-ordinator.
Marie Rodgers, Farm Manager at Stonebridge City Farm said: “We are delighted with our new Space Shed. Without the support of organisations such as Waltons and other local farms, charities like ours struggle to keep running. We will be able to use the shed to work with small children, especially on a rainy day. We will be doing lots of potting plants, and other activities in the shed. The shed is going to be such a wonderful thing for people to come and see and it will be a great feature for the farm.“
The shed is made from a solid timber frame, clad with 12mm tongue and groove timber. It also has two opening shatterproof styrene windows for ventilation as well as two removable timber shelves.
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Space Shed for city farm
Heritage Days Festival at Malabar Farm
Heritage Days Festival at Malabar Farm
Whoo-Hoo Black Powder!
If Im not burning some off myself second best is watching others do it! Today Wyatt and I attended the Ohio Heritage Days Festival held annually at Malabar Farm State Park located in north central Ohio. Malabar Farm is an interesting place to visit in and of itself being an actual working farm managed by the Ohio State Parks. Once the home and passion of noted author, conservationist and World War One Veteran Louis Bromfield Malabar Farm comes alive once a year with the sights and sounds of history.
These reenactors are demonstrating colonial era firearms. The long gun would commonly rest on the mantle above the fireplace in a colonists cabin and be called upon regularly to provide food and in times of war serve equally well.
Heritage Days does not concentrate on any one time period but encompasses all of Ohios past. Two civil war artillery units were set up firing off these big bruisers every couple hours through the weekend. Sorry no pictures of the smoke because I had both my hands busy covering my ears.
I love old engines of all kinds. On display was a couple engines from the early 1900s. I would have loved to take some video of these old machines chugging away but I didnt have a video camera along. About every 5 seconds the cylinder would fire keeping the flywheel spinning. The metal hose sticking out and bent around the bottom of the photograph is the exhaust pipe.
This is an amazing engine built in Columbus, Ohio. I enjoy just standing beside these old relics and listening to the mechanical music of early single cylinder internal combustion.
As a tool guy and gadget man I found this display very interesting. What an incredible collection of vintage monkey wrenches dating back to the mid 1800s.
The tools that built a nation.
There was lots of other stuff going on around the farm that I didnt get photographs of. Plenty of crafts and antiques were up for sale. The big house was open and the main barn was housing a large display of ancient artifacts found in Ohio -arrowheads, spear points, axes and celts. Thousands of primitive weapons and tools from Ohios prehistoric past. Also in attendance was RoadQueens Horsemans Club operating pony rides for the kids.
Although Ive visited the farm on numerous occasions Ive never been during the Heritage Days Festival. It was very cool and I look forward to checking it out again next year.
Although Ive visited the farm on numerous occasions Ive never been during the Heritage Days Festival. It was very cool and I look forward to checking it out again next year.
Heritage Days Festival at Malabar Farm