We are sorry to announce that we have to postpone this event due to unforseen circumstances.  Keep your eye on our social media for updates and keep the date of Saturday 7th September in your diary for our celebration event at the allotment.

The third of our Allotment Gallery pop-ups is in preparation. This is Lutum by Blythe Taylor.
Last week Blythe came along to Plot 33 and started digging for clay.
It was a success, clay was discovered which she will process for making ceramic charms/ amulets made during workshops over the coming weeks, the first workshop took place last week at Art Stop as we were rained off up at the plot! 
Blythe led the first ceramic session with young people from Amity making clay objects to make the moulds with.
They absolutely loved playing with clay! 
A great start to this interesting project.
You can read all about Allotment Gallery and the artists on our website page ​Allotment Gallery

Anne and Rachel have been working with the community at Ford Green and Bradeley for the past couple of months.  Based at Bradely Community Centre where they are working with local children and adults to create a community allotment and garden.
You can follow the progress on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/festivalstoke - here's some re ent updates and photos:

• Building a BIG raised bed and slapping on wood preservative , painting the pea planter, digging up the turf for another veg bed, filling and planting up more tyres and with all the planting there’s plenty of watering to do. 🪴 🚿 
• Anne and Rachel have had another lovely session with the Boys (& girls) Brigade making two colourful banners to go on the fence at Bradeley Community Centre to let passers-by know about the garden 
• It was a great Greening Ford Green session at Bradeley Community Centre on Friday evening. 

Many thanks to everyone who came along and built a planter, dug out a vegetable bed, installed and painted tyres, built pea wigwams, planted peas, giant pumpkins, potatoes etc. 🙌🏼 
And we already have a crop of lettuce and pakchoi!! And the rain held off. 🙏 

Here at plot 33 we’re quite proud of our shed made from repurposed materials by artist Richard Redwin.  It was recently used in the Art Exhibition 'Strong Roots' by Sally Fitchard.   So when we saw that there is a competition in Stoke on Trent for the best shed we decided to enter our shed, along with Sally's artworks! 
Fingers crossed 🤞🏼💚

We were delighted that the weather cleared for our second Allotment Gallery on Saturday 7th July.  It was great to see so many visitors to the allotment enjoying the artworks created by Sally Fitchard and the children of Stoke Minster school, listening to the great music and enjoying the tea and cake.

During this commission Sally was inspired by the individuality of allotment buildings. In collaboration with Wonder Women and 60 year 3 children from Stoke Minster Primary School she has built a series of minature worlds in an array of materials and repuposed materials including clay, cardboard, timber, string, sticks and textiles. The project evolved as she spent time on the plot with the groups and resulted in her creating clay figurines of the Wonder Women and other characters for everyone’s delight.
“For this exhibition we will build our own worlds, in an array of materials such as clay, timber, string, sticks, bamboo, cardboard, repurposed textiles.” 
Here is a selection of photos of the exhibition