ON YOUR BIKE AND START TALKING ON BBC THREE COUNTIES RADIO!

 

We've reached £1,000, and now we have a farm! THANK YOU!

 

NOW WE'RE GOING FOR £2,000 TO BUY WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE FARM WORKING

 

WHO FANCIES HAVING THEIR OWN GOAT OR BANANA TREE? 

 

Sometimes you agree to things and then think to yourself is this really the best idea I've ever had. Agreeing to it live on radio on a Friday afternoon means once you've said yes there's no going back.

Having not been on a bike in 10 years I am going to cycle thirty miles, starting in Buckinghamshire and finishing up at on Wednesday 10^th March 2010. To make things slightly harder I will be presenting the Lorna Milton Afternoon Show live from my bike between 2 and 4.30pm. Should be interesting and well worth tuning in for!

 

Why am I doing it?

 

As many of you know I recently covered the opening of an orphanage in Utange in live on BBC Three Counties Radio. Part of Phase Three of the project for Casuarina House is for the home to become self sufficient. Fifty percent of the costs of running the home are currently spent on food for the children. By growing their own crops and farming their own land this means £1000 pounds a year can be saved.

 

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If you would like to give a donation towards the farm I would appreciate all of your support. If you would like to sponsor a particular part of the farm a breakdown of items is below for you to choose from.

 

Items still needed to get our farm running and working.

Spades £12 each   Rakes £19 each   Hoe £5 each   Forks £4.50 each   Watering can £2 each  

Seeds £25   Milking goats £50   Goat feed £50 per year   Fence off goat area £85 

Banana trees £2 each. Casuarina trees £3 each ( about 180 trees are needed to go round outside of plot)

Wheel barrow £25 Sprinklers with hoses £95 each

Water tank plus installation £500   Fence £1,000   Ssecurity gate £350

 

 

Items our first £1,000 has already brought.

Clear and level the ground         £100                Labour for one year          £550

Hosepipes                                £90                     Goat area and shed         £100

Seed                                        £50                      Compost area                   £30

Fertiliser                                   £30                     Cow manure for compost £25

 

You can follow my progress on Wednesday 10^th March 2010 between 2 and 4.30pm on BBC Three Counties Radio or through the website at bbc.co.uk/threecounties.

 

Check out some of my trainning as featured on BBC Look East on BBC 1:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8538715.stm

 

Thank you for all your support it is greatly appreciated!

 

The training is well and truly underway and I'm pleases to say the gel pants are still working...luckily! 

 

Lorna

Lorna Milton

Afternoon Show Presenter 2 - 4.30pm

BBC Three Counties Radio

1 Hasting Street

Luton

LU1 5XL

Tel: 01582 637444

bbc.co.uk/threecounties