Plant Swap and Salad Day – 19th May 2012

A day of events for growing and eating local food. Everyone welcome. Saturday 19th May 2012 Plant Swap and Salad Day 10am to 2pm Newsome Scout Hall Newsome Road HD4 6JJ  Plant Swap – 100s of plants for you to choose from: vegetables, salad, herbs, fruit and flowers. You’re very welcome to bring something along [...]

Garden of Delights – Sunday 26th June 2011

Garden of Delights Sunday 26th June 2011 1pm to 4pm Red House Museum Oxford Road Gomersal Cleckheaton We’re taking part in this year’s ‘Garden of Delights’ at Red House Museum. This event is a delightful way to discover and enjoy the beautiful gardens at this former woollen cloth merchant’s home, which was often visited and [...]

June Fair – Sunday 19th June 2011

June Fair Sunday 19th June 10am to 3pm Huddersfield Open Market   We’ll have a plant stall at the Rotary Club’s June Fair on Sunday 19th June.   The fair will have stalls from around 100 voluntary groups and charities in Kirklees, including Growing Newsome. Please come along to support us and other local groups [...]

Plant Swap – Saturday 21st May 2011

Growing Newsome Plant Swap Saturday 21st May, 10am to 12 noon at Newsome Scout Hall Newsome Road South HD4 6JJ (opposite St. John’s Avenue) Please come along to our Plant Swap to get together with other food growers, swap plants and seeds, get advice (or give advice) about growing your own food and find out [...]

Videos from the Growing Newsome plant swap, May 2010

Videos from the Growing Newsome plant swap event on 29th May 2010.

Growing Newsome plant swap – 29th May 2010

We’re holding a Growing Newsome plant swap and other activities on Saturday 29th May from 10am to 12 noon at Newsome Scout Hall.

Gales and garlic at the University of Huddersfield

We learned some new things at the first Huddersfield Green Day, which took place at the University of Huddersfield on Tuesday 20th April 2010.

Huddersfield Green Day

We’re taking part in Huddersfield Green Day on 20th April 2010.

The sun shines on Berry Brow Carnival

It was a lovely sunny day for Berry Brow Carnival on Saturday 25th July 2009.  Our plant stall and seed planting table were popular, and we met lots of new people as well as catching up with some of our members.   We brought along lots of herbs, lettuces, tomatoes, cherries, beetroot, chard, rocket, peppers [...]

We enjoyed Celebrating Newsome Together

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Growing Newsome activities at the Celebrating Newsome Together event on 4th and 5th July 2009 at Newsome High School. We gave away over 100 plants, all of which had been donated or brought in to swap by Newsome residents. Over 80 pots and propagators were planted [...]