Big Plant Swap – Saturday 18th May 2024

Big Plant Swap

Saturday 18th May 2024
10am to 1pm

Free admission – all welcome

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Plant Swap

Come and take your pick from hundreds of plants and seedlings at our popular annual plant swap – great for food growers and friends. You can choose from: Vegetables, Salads, Herbs, Fruit and Wildlife-friendly flowers.

You’re very welcome to bring along plants, seedlings, cuttings or seeds to swap.

Our top tips for plant swappers

• It’s really helpful to other growers if you can label your plants.
• You might like to bring along a trug, basket or tray to carry your plants home in.
• We advise hanging around to see what else appears during the morning.

Don’t worry if you don’t have anything to swap – you don’t need to bring something to be able to take something. You can make a donation in exchange for your plants.

We also accept donations of plants ahead of the event – please email us if you have something to share: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Lots more to enjoy…

Stalls, including local produce on sale.

Seed Swap – vegetables and other seeds to swap or buy.

Plant some seeds to grow on your windowsill.

Craft Corner for children.

Tea, coffee and homemade cakes.

Information about growing your own food.

Crop protection materials on sale.

Find out about local projects and events.

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Join us for lunch

Served 12 noon to 1pm

Enjoy a healthy lunch at Newsome Scout Hall – with recipes for you to take home. We’ll be serving a selection of tasty salads from our Spring salad bar with pasta and roasted vegetables, plus a fruit pudding.

We ask for a small donation to cover the costs of making your lunch.

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Help out with our Big Plant Swap

Volunteer
We’re looking for more volunteers to help out with the event. Can you help with our stalls on the day, or can you bake a cake? Expenses happily provided. Please contact us at growingnewsome@gmail.com if you’d like to help out.

Print our poster
Help us to promote the event:
Big Plant Swap poster 2024 (PDF)

Stalls & info

If your local group or organisation are interested in having a stall at one of our events or you’d like to bring some local information to share on the day, please get in touch: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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What happens at the Plant Swap?
Here’s a short film about Growing Newsome’s Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films for Plant it Grow it Eat it.

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Big Plant Swap – Saturday 20th May 2023

Big Plant Swap

Saturday 20th May 2023
10am to 1pm

Free admission – all welcome

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Plant Swap

Come and take your pick from hundreds of plants and seedlings at our popular annual plant swap – great for food growers and friends. You can choose from: Vegetables, Salads, Herbs, Fruit and Wildlife-friendly flowers.

You’re very welcome to bring along plants, seedlings, cuttings or seeds to swap.

Our top tips for plant swappers

• It’s really helpful to other growers if you can label your plants.
• You might like to bring along a trug, basket or tray to carry your plants home in.
• We advise hanging around to see what else appears during the morning.

Don’t worry if you don’t have anything to swap – you don’t need to bring something to be able to take something. You can make a donation in exchange for your plants.

We also accept donations of plants ahead of the event – please email us if you have something to share: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Lots more to enjoy…

Stalls, including local produce on sale.

Huddersfield Raw Honey.

Seed Swap – vegetables and other seeds to swap or buy.

Children’s craft activities.

Plant some seeds to grow on your windowsill.

Tea, coffee and homemade cakes.

Information about growing your own food.

Crop protection materials on sale.

Find out about local projects and events.

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Supporting the Newsome Centre

Any cash donations we receive for plants at this event will be contributed to the Newsome Centre crowdfunder. A newly formed Community Benefit Society have some exciting plans to set up a new Community Centre, Cafe & Event Space in the former St John’s Church in Newsome village, By donating, you can help to buy the building for our local community, which will create new possibilities for our food growing community.

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Join us for lunch

Served 12 noon to 1pm

Enjoy a healthy lunch at Newsome Scout Hall – with recipes for you to take home. We’ll be serving a selection of tasty salads from our Spring salad bar with pasta and roasted vegetables, plus a fruit pudding.

We ask for a small donation to cover the costs of making your lunch.

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Take part in Newsome Voices

Newsome Voices is an opportunity to share your experiences and ideas about life in Newsome, and to say what you hope Newsome will be like in the future. Launching at our Big Plant Swap, it’s a month of local conversations. You can take part on the day or take some information away with you and then take part either online, by completing a paper questionnaire, or by talking with any of the Newsome Voices team from 20th May to 20th June. Anyone who lives or works in Newsome, or who visits the area, is welcome to join in. The results will be used to create an action plan for our area.

Newsome Voices is organised by the Newsome Centre and our Newsome councillors.
It is funded by Kirklees Council.

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Help out with our Big Plant Swap

Volunteer
We’re looking for more volunteers to help out with the event. Can you help with our stalls or refreshments on the day, or can you bake a cake or two? Please contact us at growingnewsome@gmail.com if you’d like to help out.

Print our poster
Help us to promote the event:
Big Plant Swap poster 2023 (PDF)

Stalls & info

If your local group or organisation are interested in having a stall at one of our events or you’d like to bring some local information to share on the day, please get in touch: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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What happens at the Plant Swap?
Here’s a short film about Growing Newsome’s Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films for Plant it Grow it Eat it.

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Seed potatoes for sale – free to local schools – March 2023

If you missed out on our recent Potato Day, we still have some varieties of seed potato available for you.

For food growers – Seed potatoes for sale at £2 per dozen (mix and match).

For local schools – Seed potatoes available free of charge. Please let us know how many you’d like. Varieties will depend on what we still have most available of, but please let us know if you have any preference.

All seed potatoes are for collection from Newsome village in March 2023.

This list was last updated on 29th March at 2pm

Sorry, we’re sold out until 2024 now

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First earlies

Colleen – Organic  0 remaining
Very high yielding. Ideal for boiled potatoes.

Lady Christl  – 0 remaining
New potato flavour. Good for garden growing – suits a sheltered site.

Maris Bard (Organic)  0 remaining
Smooth skinned, delicious when boiled or steamed. Has been successful for growers in Newsome.

Sharpe’s Express  0 remaining
This was TV gardener Percy Thrower’s favourite. Cooks well (but boil with care).

Winston  0 remaining
One of the first bakers of the season. Produces good baking size potatoes.

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Second earlies

Bambino – Organic  0 remaining
Lovely salad potatoes with a smooth, light waxy texture.

Nicola – Organic  0 remaining
Small, firm, waxy potatoes. Good for salads, boiling or potato wedges.

Ratte  0 remaining
Classic French variety. Long, curved tubers with yellow flesh. Has a distinctive chestnut flavour.

Sarpo Una – Organic  0 remaining
Nice waxy, pink-skinned salad potatoes. Perfect to grow in pots or sacks. Good resistance to diseases.

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Main crops

Ambo – Organic  0 remaining
Attractive, white-skinned tubers with a splash of red. White creamy flesh. High yielding.

Belle de Fontenay  0 remaining
A classic French heritage potato. Great for salads. Long, slightly curved tubers.

Carolous – Organic  0 remaining
Oval pale yellow tubers with red eyes. Very suitable for boiling, mashing or roasting.

Heidi Red – Organic  0 remaining
German speciality variety with bright red skin and flesh. Has a slightly buttery taste.

International Kidney  0 remaining
A classic. Sold by Jersey growers under the trademark Jersey Royals.

Orla – Organic  0 remaining
Delicious boiled or steamed, Can be grown as an early or left in the ground longer to bulk up.

Picasso  0 remaining
Waxy fleshed, creamy oval tubers with rosy pink eyes. Perfect for boiling and mashing.

Pink Fir Apple  0 remaining
Very knobbly tubers that should be cooked whole in their skins. Delicious served hot or cold.

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How to order

Please email:
growingnewsome@gmail.com
if you’d like some.

First come, first served!

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Big Plant Swap – Saturday 21st May 2022

Big Plant Swap

Saturday 21st May 2022
10am to 1pm

Free admission – all welcome

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Plant Swap

Come and take your pick from hundreds of plants and seedlings at our popular annual plant swap – great for food growers and friends. You can choose from: Vegetables, Salads, Herbs, Fruit and Wildlife-friendly flowers.

You’re very welcome to bring along plants, seedlings, cuttings or seeds to swap.

Our top tips for plant swappers

• It’s really helpful to other growers if you can label your plants.
• You might like to bring along a trug, basket or tray to carry your plants home in.
• We advise hanging around to see what else appears during the morning.

Don’t worry if you don’t have anything to swap – you don’t need to bring something to be able to take something. You can make a donation to Growing Newsome in exchange for your plants.

We also accept donations of plants ahead of the event – just email us if you have something to share: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Lots more to enjoy…

Seed Swap – vegetables and other seeds to swap or buy.

Stalls, including local produce on sale.

Children’s craft activities.

Plant some seeds to grow on your windowsill.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes.

Information about growing your own food.

Crop protection materials on sale.

Find out about local projects and events.

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Meet local growing and wellbeing organisations

We’ll be joined on the day by:

• Peaceful Remedies – including an Outdoor Yoga taster session at 1pm
• Huddersfield Raw Honey – with local honey available to buy
• Growing Works – with an activity or two for you to try

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Join us for lunch

Served 12 noon to 1pm

Enjoy a healthy lunch at Newsome Scout Hall – with recipes for you to take home. We’ll be serving a selection of tasty salads from our Spring salad bar with pasta and roasted vegetables, plus a fruit pudding.

We ask for a small donation to cover the costs of making your lunch.

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Want to help?

Volunteer
We’re looking for volunteers to help out with our events and activities. Contact us at growingnewsome@gmail.com to find out more, or ask on the day.

Print our poster
Help us to promote the event:
Big Plant Swap poster 2022 (PDF)

Stalls & info

If your local group or organisation are interested in having a stall at one of our events or you’d like to bring some local information to share on the day, please get in touch: growingnewsome@gmail.com

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What happens at the Plant Swap?
Here’s a short film about Growing Newsome’s Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films for Plant it Grow it Eat it.

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Pop up Plant Swap – Saturday 12th June 2021

Pop up Plant Swap

Saturday 12th June 2021
10am to 12 noon

An outdoor event

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

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Looking for some plants?

One of the best things about growing your own food is having something to share and enjoy with others. We are really missing having our usual events, where we can all get together to swap our plants, seeds and experiences. So although we haven’t been able to hold our annual Big Plant Swap this year, we’re pleased to say that we’ve come up with an alternative event. 

Come along to our outdoor Pop up Plant Swap to take your pick from our wide selection of edible plants, and a few other things. Our plants will include:

Vegetables
Salads
Herbs
Fruit
Wildlife-friendly flowers

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Got some seedlings or plants to share?

You’re very welcome to bring along plants, seedlings, cuttings or seeds to swap – but you don’t need to bring something to be able to take something (you can make a donation to Growing Newsome in exchange for your plants).

Some things that other growers have told us they are particularly looking for are:

Summer Squash
Cucumbers
Courgettes
Runner Beans
Red Cabbages
Dwarf Tomatoes
Sweet Peas
Strawberries

Greenhouse veg is always popular, and people also like to pick up some flowering plants along with the edible plants. If you have a request to add, please email growingnewsome@gmail.com

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Top tips for plant swapping

1. Please label your plants – it will really help our other growers. Or let us know what you’ve brought so that we can label your plants for you.

2. Bring along a trug, box or basket – anything handy to carry your plants home in.

3. See what appears – you’ll be amazed how many plants get shuffled on the day.

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How you can visit safely and keep others safe

It’s safer for us to meet outdoors – so our Plant Swap will be outside the entrance to Newsome Scout Hall.

Please sanitise your hands when you arrive (we’re providing some hand sanitiser). We also recommend doing this before you leave.

If other people are already at the stall, please give each other room and wait for a safe space.

If you’d like to avoid handling cash, we will be accepting contactless card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and payments from other contactless smartphones and watches (but you can still pay with cash if you’d like).

Please be reassured that we’re following public health guidelines and keeping in touch with our ward councillors. 

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How you can help

We know it’s short notice for our Pop up event. We really hope you can make it on the day – and if you can help to let other people In the local area know it’s happening, we really appreciate it. You might want to offer to pick something up for others who are isolating. We also welcome donations of plants ahead of the day. If you’d like to buy something but can’t get here on the day, please let us know and between us we’ll do our best to help.

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It’s Volunteers Week

A huge thank you to our organising group and to all our volunteers and friends, who make our events and activities happen. Want to join our friendly community of food growers? We’re looking for more volunteers to help look after our Community Allotment and to help organise our community events.

Please come along to our Pop up Plant Swap to meet other volunteers and find out how you can get involved.

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What usually happens at our Plant Swap?

Here’s a short film about Growing Newsome’s Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films for Plant it Grow it Eat it. Things are a bit different this year, but the plant swapping is still the same – and we all love it.

Growing Newsome Plant Drop, June 2020

Although we aren’t able to get together for our usual Big Plant Swap this year, we are still here for each other. And we still want to help people grow their own food. So with a little help from our friends, we have turned our annual plant swap into a Plant Drop.

We’ve decided that if our growers can’t come to us, we’ll bring some plants to your doorstep. We hope you will join in. Please let us know what plants you’d like and we’ll do our best to get them to you.

 

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See our plant list

We have over 90 different varieties of edible plants, including:

Cabbages, Broccoli and Kale

Chard, Sorrel and Mustard

Tomatoes and Peppers

Courgettes, Pumpkins and Squash

Herbs for your windowsill

and lots more…

 

Here’s a list of the plants that we have for you:

Plants available for our Plant Drop

 

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Request a doorstep plant drop

Please let us know if you’d like some plants delivering to your doorstep. Your plants will be brought by one of the other growers from our network who have kindly volunteered to help. We’ll do this in a safe way.

 

Growing Newsome Plant Drop – request some plants

If we get a lot of requests at the same time, we may pause our order form for a while to give us chance to pack the deliveries that we already have. We can deliver anywhere in the Newsome ward and will also aim to deliver to other places in Huddersfield, 

 

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Ways to say thank you for your plants

Rebecca has shared this photo of veg happily growing in her garden during lockdown, including some Growing Newsome potatoes

In the usual spirit of our Plant Swap, you are welcome to share something with us in exchange for your plants, if you can. We’d love to receive a note, card or email from you saying why growing your own food matters to you, especially right now. You might like to send us a photo of something that you’re growing via email: GrowingNewsome@gmail.com or via twitter: @GrowingNewsome

Making a donation

If you’d like to make a financial donation for your plants, we’ll let you know how to do this safely. Or come along to a future Growing Newsome event and put something in one of our donation boxes.

 

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Supported by our volunteers

We want to say a huge thank you to all the members of the Growing Newsome network who have kindly volunteered to help with the deliveries and preparations.

Many of our elves are currently unable to do the things they love to do to help others, because they are self-isolating or shielding. It’s hard for all of us. So our Plant Drop would not be possible without the kind hearts of our community. Thank you.

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Supported by our councillors

Our Plant Drop is funded by the Newsome councillors, from their community response Ward Project Budgets. This is extra funding available from Kirklees Council to help all kinds of organisations who are supporting people in our local places during Covid-19.

We’d like to say thank you to our councillors, and especially to Cllr Andrew Cooper for his encouragement and personal support.

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Big Plant Swap – Saturday 1st June 2019

Big Plant Swap

Saturday 1st June 2019
10am to 1pm

Free admission – all welcome

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Take your pick from hundreds of plants – great for growers, super for sharers.

You can choose from:

Vegetables
Salads
Herbs
Fruit
Wildlife-friendly flowers

You’re very welcome to bring along plants, seedlings, cuttings or seeds to swap – but you don’t need to bring something to be able to take something (you can make a donation to Growing Newsome in exchange for your plants).

 

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Lots more to enjoy…

Beekeeping advice and demonstration hive from the Huddersfield and District Bee Keeping Association.

Seed Swap – vegetable seeds to swap or buy.

Children’s craft activities.

Stalls, including local produce on sale.

Plant some seeds to grow on your windowsill.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes.

Information about growing your own food.

Find out about local projects and events.

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Local food lunch:
served 12 noon to 1pm

Enjoy a healthy lunch at Newsome Scout Hall – with recipes for you to take home. We’ll be serving a selection of tasty salads (including warm salads) from our Spring salad bar, plus a fruit pudding.

We ask for a small donation to cover the costs of making your lunch.

Print our poster for your venue – or share with a friend:

Big Plant Swap poster 2019 (PDF)

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It’s Volunteers Week

Want to join our friendly community of food growers? We’re looking for volunteers to help look after our Community Allotment and to help organise our community events. Please come along to our Plant Swap to meet other volunteers, find out how you can get involved, and celebrate 10 years of Growing Newsome.

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What happens at the Plant Swap?
Here’s a short film about Growing Newsome’s Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films for Plant it Grow it Eat it.

 

Big Plant Swap – Saturday 26th May 2018

Big Plant Swap

Saturday 26th May 2018
10am to 1pm

Free admission – all welcome

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Take your pick from hundreds of plants – great for growers, super for sharers.

You can choose from:

Vegetables
Salads
Herbs
Fruit
Wildlife-friendly flowers

You’re very welcome to bring along plants, seedlings, cuttings or seeds to swap – but you don’t need to bring something to be able to take something (you can make a donation to Growing Newsome in exchange for your plants).

 

Lots more to enjoy…

Seed Swap – lots of vegetable seeds to swap or buy.

Children’s craft activities.

Local produce on sale.

Plant some seeds to grow on your windowsill.

Reading Circle book stall with all sorts of books.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes.

Information about growing and sharing food in Newsome.

Find out about other local projects and events.

Growing democracy:
White for purity, Purple for determination, Green for hope

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Votes for Women, you can pick up a special Vote 100 badge at our Big Plant Swap. We’d love it if you can bring along something white, purple or green (the suffragette colours) to swap!

Local food lunch:
served 12 noon to 1pm

Enjoy a healthy lunch at Newsome Scout Hall – with recipes for you to take home. We’ll be serving a selection of tasty salads (including warm salads) from our Spring salad bar, plus a fruit pudding.

We ask for a small donation to cover the costs of making your lunch.

Print our poster for your venue – or share with a friend:

Big Plant Swap poster 2018 (PDF)

What happens at the Plant Swap?
Here’s a short film about Growing Newsome’s Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films for Plant it Grow it Eat it.

You can see more food growing films on the Food Kirklees web site:
10 short films about food growing in Kirklees

Seed potatoes for sale 2018

Pink Fir Apple, Kestrel and Sarpo Kifli

If you missed out on our recent Potato Day, we still have some varieties of seed potato available for you to buy.

They’re for sale at £2 per dozen, mix and match (or 20p each). Available for collection from Newsome or from Huddersfield town centre. We may also be able to deliver locally.

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First earlies

Lady Christl  7 remaining  sold out
New potato flavour. Good for garden growing – suits a sheltered site.

Pentland Javelin 
Heavy crops with pure white tasty flesh. Very good disease resistance.

Sharpe’s Express  6 remaining
This was TV gardener Percy Thrower’s favourite. Cooks well (but boil with care).

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Second earlies

Charlotte – Organic  6 remaining
Popular, easy to grow waxy salad potato. Good flavour and high yielding.

Divaa  6 remaining
Exciting new variety with long-shaped, pure white skins and flesh. Superb for chips.

Jazzy  19 remaining
New waxy potato variety. Small, set-skinned tubers. Boil, steam, crush or roast.

Kestrel  15 remaining
Excellent flavour. Great for baking, roasting and chips. Good disease resistance.

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Main crops

Ambo – Organic  26 remaining
Attractive, white-skinned tubers with a splash of red. White creamy flesh. High yielding.

Pink Fir Apple – Heritage variety  sold out
We highly recommend Pink Fir Apples – they’re our biggest seller. You can cook them whole and there’s no need for peeling.

Sarpo Kifli
White-skinned, multipurpose variety with a fab new potato flavour. Best enjoyed when freshly harvested and cooked in their skins. Can be grown over a long period.

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How to order

Please email:
growingnewsome@gmail.com
if you’d like some.

First come, first served!

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Big Plant Swap – Saturday 20th May 2017

Big Plant Swap

Saturday 20th May 2017
10am to 1pm

Free admission – all weclome

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South, Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Take your pick from hundreds of plants – great for growers, super for sharers.

You can choose from:

Vegetables
Salads
Herbs
Fruit
Wildlife-friendly flowers

You’re very welcome to bring along plants, seedlings, cuttings or seeds to swap – but you don’t need to bring something to be able to take something (you can make a donation to Growing Newsome in exchange for your plants).

 

Lots more to enjoy…

Seed Swap – lots of vegetable seeds to swap or buy.

Children’s craft activities.

Local produce on sale.

Plant some seeds to grow on your windowsill.

Reading Circle book stall with all sorts of books.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes.

Information about growing and sharing food in Newsome.

Find out about other local projects and events.

Local food lunch:
served 12 noon to 1pm

Enjoy a healthy lunch at Newsome Scout Hall – with recipes for you to take home. We’ll be serving a selection of tasty salads (including warm salads) from our Spring salad bar, plus a fruit pudding.

We ask for a small donation to cover the costs of making your lunch.

Print our poster for your venue – or share with a friend:

Big Plant Swap poster 2017 (PDF)

What happens at the Plant Swap?
Here’s a short film about Growing Newsome’s Plant Swap, made by Alistair I Macdonald at Curlew Films for Plant it Grow it Eat it.

You can see more food growing films on the Food Kirklees web site:
10 short films about food growing in Kirklees