This week marks an important milestone for CoFarm Cambridge, as Jon and Charlie from Cambridge Fencing & Forestry Co have started installing a 2-acre block of rabbit-proof post and rail fencing for us in the middle of the farm.

This will create a central square block that will become our productive organic market garden - the part of the site where most of the food will be grown!

As soon as the fencing and rabbit proofing is in place, we can start to transplant the seedlings that our lead horticulturalist Peter Wrapson has been bringing on in his home plant nursery.

At the time of writing, the two access gates for the market garden block have been installed and holes are being bored out, ready for the fence posts.

We will need 10 volunteer helpers to bring their own digging spades spades next week, on Wednesday 27th May, to help us to dig the trench that the rabbit proof wire will be buried into. Our soil is so lovely and crumbly (thanks to Cambridge City Council contractors who ploughed and harrowed it for us) that this will be better than using machines for this part of the job.

In order to maintain appropriate social distancing and ensure the health and safety of our volunteers, we’re limiting volunteer places to 10 people. It is important that you sign-up by clicking here to receive further details on start times, what to bring and how we’ll be working.