April has been a very busy month at COCA with so much going on in the growing field, polytunnels and Cartref COCA. Our EVS volunteer Agnes, who is staying with is until November, has been flat out working with Caz planting, transplanting, weeding and harvesting – and we are in fact ahead of schedule at the moment. Unfortunately our other EVS volunteer Hugo returned to France during this month and we were very grateful for his help over the time he was with us since February and wish him a speedy recovery. His replacement will be joining us in June. Work has been on-going with Cartref COCA with the lime rendering now almost finished on the inside. We had our AGM in 25th April and it was great to see so many of our members to come and talk with us about how we’re doing. Our Chair, Membership Secretary and Treasurer stepped down and were all replaced apart from the treasurer role which we are now exploring avenues to take on this task. We now have a Core Group of ten including Gerald, Caz, Dave, Nathan, Gill, Rhiannon, Kate, Agnes, Rosie and Stuart. We finished off the month with our Inaugural Onion Day which saw over thirty people come to the farm and take part in onion planting and the kids were busy making bug hotels!
