Huddersfield Potato Day 2024
Our popular annual Potato Day and Seed Swap event returns on Saturday 2nd March 2024, from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ. Choose from over two dozen varieties of seed potato, plus onions, shallots and lots of vegetable seeds. You can also enjoy our stalls, activities, refreshments and a hot lunch on the day.
Potato Day and Seed Swap, 2nd March 2024
Potato varieties on sale in 2024
Newsome Voices results
Last summer the Newsome Voices team asked you to share your experiences of life in Newsome and your hopes for the future of our area. This included thinking about our climate, our wildlife and green spaces, our local heritage, our voice and influence, and our connections with each other. Over 300 people have taken part, including many Growing Newsome participants. See the results…
Newsome Voices
Community Allotment – can you help?
Can you spare a couple of hours on a weekend to help out at our friendly Community Allotment? We’ve got masses of seed sowing and digging to do every spring, so any time you can give will really help our growing community. Please Contact us if you’d like to know more.
Growing Newsome Cmmunity Allotment
Photo: Thank you to Coronation Street’s Simon Gregson for visiting our allotment to help promote our involvement in the National Lottery Awards.
What happens at our Big Plant Swap?
A short film from our 2014 Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films:
Newsome Mills Campaign news
Find out more on the Newsome Mills Campaign blog:
Newsome Mill Ponds matter – share your views
The 30 year fight to save Newsome Mill Ponds
Demolition or regeneration – what’s next for Newsome Mills?
For more information about Newsome Mill, visit:
www.SaveNewsomeMills.org.uk
or follow @NewsomeForum on Twitter.
Jam jar amnesty
Bought some of our jam? Did you know that you can return your empty jars to us? We can reuse the red and white check caps and plain silver caps as well as the jar. We also collect clean, small jars: 1 Ib, 12 oz or 8 oz especially.
You can bring your empties along to any of our events or drop them off at any Newsome Forum meeting, held on the second Thursday of January, March, May, July, September and November in the Community Room at Newsome High School. The meeting starts at 6pm and you can drop things off from 5.45pm.
Community allotment
We have a Community Allotment for anyone who lives in the Newsome Ward to share. It’s ideal for anyone who wants a bit of support with allotment growing, or anyone who can offer advice to novice growers. By getting together, we’re all helping each other to grow our own food there. You’re welcome to come along as little or as often as you can, weekdays or weekends.
If you’d like to join in, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact us to find out more.
Allotment Sundays – we’re at the community allotment most Sunday mornings.
More about the Community allotment
About us
grow your own
Growing Newsome are a thriving community of food growers in the Newsome Ward of Huddersfield. We aim to build and strengthen relationships between local residents through the shared activity of growing and eating our own local food.
We are encouraging Newsome residents to work together to share our valuable skills and resources, so that we can learn how to grow together.
We are working with Newsome Ward Timebanking to help people share their skills.
Want to get involved?
Please contact us.
Growing Newsome 