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A few of our allotmenteers took a gentle walk on the wild side last week. On Tuesday 17th April we joined Chris and Rose Bax from Taste the Wild at their woodland in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. We had the great pleasure of spending the day taking part in one of their wild food foraging courses. We [...]
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At a meeting this evening, our community worker, Dot, posed a question that has been asked more often than usual this year: “What can I do with all those green tomatoes, other than make chutney or fry them?” Even around just one table, there were many keen to offer suggestions, such as: Leave them on [...]
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Join us for a day of events to celebrate & share local food Saturday 22nd October Autumn Fair 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall Newsome Road South Pumpkin carving with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust – free pumpkins for the first 30 participants. Pumpkins kindly supplied by Morrison’s as part of their Let’s Grow scheme. [...]
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Everyone is welcome to come along to Hillside Primary’s Harvest Fair on Friday 14th October from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Come along to look round the school, enjoy tea and cake, join in the games, or do some bulb planting. The school are keen to involve all the community in this event, so all the exhibitions [...]
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We managed to pick a particularly soggy morning for our latest visit to Stirley Farm on Saturday 16th July. Despite being a bit damp around the edges, we were all keen to see how the vegetables were getting on – and we weren’t disappointed. Kim (the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s food education officer) showed us around [...]
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If you’ve been wondering what we’re going to do with all those jam jars that you’ve been kindly donating, it will probably come as no surprise to you that now we’re on the hunt for some fruit. We’re opening our ‘jam factory’ soon. It’s not really a factory of course, but we’re encouraging everyone to [...]
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We’re having our first Autumn Fair on Saturday 16th October 2010.
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Everyone is welcome to come along to Hillside’s Harvest Show on Thursday 23rd September.
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