Growing Newsome’s Christmas gift boxes 2023

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Christmas gift boxes

£5.50 each, or two boxes for £10

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Two 8oz jars of our homegrown preserves, presented in a fully recyclable gift box with festive fabric ribbon, paper tag and wooden charm. Choose from our selection of preserves, made from fruit and vegetables grown in the Newsome area.

Choose any two jars:

Jam

• Autumn Berry and Apple Jam
• Blackcurrant Jam
• Blackberry and Apple Jam
• Gooseberry and Elderflower Jam
• Loganberry, Raspberry and Lime Jam*
• Marrow and Ginger Jam
• Pear, Apple and Ginger Jam
• Plum and Apple Jam
• Raspberry Jam*

Jelly

• Mixed Currant Jelly
• Redcurrant Jelly

Marmalade and Conserves

• Orange Marmalade (not homegrown, but homemade)
• Spiced Apple Butter (a smooth apple conserve, with spices)

* low stock
* Sorry, sold out

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Nutritional and allergy information

All our preserves are Vegetarian. Everything except our marmalade is Vegan. Our homegrown jam and jelly is made with locally grown fruit or vegetables, sugar and sometimes lemon or lime. Where varieties include spices, this is included in the description.

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Easy to recycle or reuse

Our gift boxes are fully recyclable. The box, tag and labels are made of paper and card. Our ribbons are fabric, which can be composted or reused – and you can hang the wooden charm on your Christmas tree.

You’re very welcome to return jars to us at any Growing Newsome event, or glass can be taken to bottle banks or recycling centres.

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Apart from the citrus fruits, all our fresh ingredients are homegrown, so we have limited supplies. We’ll update this page with our current availability. Label designs may vary.

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Order, pay and collect

Please email growingnewsome@gmail.com to make an order. We’ll confirm your order and send you a link that you can use to pay online. Orders can be collected from Newsome village on a number of days during December. We’ll send you the details when your order is ready. Last order date: Sunday 17th December 2023

All sales help to support our food growing community. Thank you.

Growing Newsome’s homegrown preserves – gift boxes 2021

We have a selection of preserves available now, freshly made this Summer and Autumn from fruit and vegetables grown in the Newsome area. All sales help to support our food growing community.

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Christmas gift boxes – £5 each

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Two 8oz jars of our homegrown preserves, presented in a fully recyclable gift box with festive fabric ribbon, paper tag and wooden charm. Choose from our selection of preserves, made from fruit and vegetables grown in Newsome.

Choose any two jars:

• Jam
  Autumn Berry and Apple Jam, Blackcurrant Jam, Courgette and Ginger Jam*,
  Blackberry and Apple Jam*, Loganberry, Raspberry and Lime Jam*,
  Plum Jam*, Plum and Apple Jam*, Raspberry Jam*
• Jelly
  Apple Jelly with Blackberries, Mixed Currant Jelly, Redcurrant Jelly
• Marmalade and Conserves
  Orange Marmalade (not homegrown, but homemade), Spiced Apple Butter (a slow cooked smooth preserve, made with cinnamon and nutmeg)
• Pickles
  Bread and Butter Pickles (made with cucumber and onion)

* low stock
* Sorry, sold out

If we’ve run out of something you really wanted, feel free to drop us an email to check whether we’re making any more before Christmas.

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Easy to recycle or reuse

Our gift boxes are fully recyclable. The box, tag and labels are made of paper and card. Our ribbons are fabric, which can be composted or reused – and you can hang the wooden charm on your Christmas tree.

You’re welcome to return jars to us at any Growing Newsome event in 2022, or glass can be taken to bottle banks or recycling centres.

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Nutritional and allergy information

All our preserves are Vegetarian. Our homegrown jam and jelly is made with just fruit or vegetables, sugar and sometimes lemon or lime. Everything except our marmalade is Vegan. Pickles contain mustard seeds.

Apart from the citrus fruits, all our fresh ingredients are homegrown, so we have limited supplies. We’ll update this page with our current stock availability. Label designs may vary.

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Order, pay and collect

Please email growingnewsome@gmail.com to make an order. We’ll confirm your order and send you a link that you can use to pay online. Orders can be collected from Newsome village on a number of days during December. We’ll send you the details when your order is ready. If you need to collect your order before a certain date, please let us know. Thank you.

Growing Newsome stall, 31st July 2021

Growing Newsome are taking part in this friendly morning event organised by Newsome Ward Community Forum:

Community Coffee & Catch Up

Saturday 31st July from 10am to 1pm

Newsome Scout Hall, Newsome Road South HD4 6JJ

Come along for a cuppa and sit down to enjoy some homemade cake (including some your favourites from our volunteers) and catch up with others in our community.

Visit our Growing Newsome stall for a selection of locally grown jams.

Browse our plants – if you’re looking for something in particular, please let us know and we’ll try to help.

Pick up information about other things going on in our local area.

If you’d like to avoid handling cash, at our stall 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).

We look forward to seeing you there.

Community Coffee & Catch Up

Growing Newsome’s homegrown preserves – gift boxes

We have a selection of preserves available now, freshly made this Summer and Autumn from fruit and vegetables grown in the Newsome area. All sales help to support our food growing community.

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Christmas gift boxes – £5 each

Two 8oz jars of our homegrown preserves, presented in a fully recyclable gift box with festive fabric ribbon and paper tag. Choose from a selection of our jams and jellies made from fruit and vegetables grown in Newsome.

Choose any two jars:

• Jam – Blackberry and Apple Jam*, Blackcurrant Jam, Plum Jam,*
  Courgette and Ginger Jam, Plum and Apple Jam, Rhubarb and Apple Jam, Rhubarb and Ginger Jam,
• Jelly – Apple Jelly with Blackberries*, Blackcurrant Jelly, Mixed Currant Jelly*, Redcurrant Jelly.*
• Marmalade and Conserves – Orange marmalade (not homegrown, but homemade).

Sold out
*low stock    

If we’ve run out of something you really wanted, feel free to drop us an email to check whether we’re making any more before Christmas.

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Easy to recycle or reuse

Our gift boxes are fully recyclable. The box, tag, labels and stickers are made of paper and card. Our ribbons are fabric, which can be composted or reused.

You’re welcome to return the jars to us at any Growing Newsome event or Newsome Forum meeting in 2021, or glass can be taken to bottle banks or recycling centres.

Apart from the citrus fruits, all our fresh ingredients are homegrown, so we have limited supplies. We’ll update this page with our current stock. Label designs may vary.

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Order, pay and collect

Please email growingnewsome@gmail.com to make an order. We’ll confirm your order and send you a link that you can use to pay online. Orders can be collected from Newsome village on a number of days during December. We’ll send you the details when your order is ready. If you need to collect your order before a certain date, please let us know. Thank you.

Autumn Pop up Stall, 24th October 2020

If you’d like to get your autumn-planting garlic and onions from us this year, or pick up some locally grown jam and other things to enjoy, you van visit our Pop up Growing Newsome stall: Saturday 24th October from 10am to around 12 noon Outside St John’s Church, off Jackroyd Lane, in Newsome village Look out for our pop up stall on the path through the church grounds.

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How you can visit safely and keep others safe

Please arrive via the Lych gate (the covered gateway arch) at Newsome crossroads, at the corner of Jackroyd Lane and Newsome Road South.

If other people are already at the stall, please follow the distancing guidelines and wait for a safe space. We’re hoping to dodge the rain showers, but you might want to bring a brolley or shelter in the Lych gate if you need to wait a few minutes. 

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

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).

In case the government guidelines for Kirklees change in the next few days, please be reassured that we have consent from West Yorkshire Police to hold our outdoor stall, and we’re keeping in touch with our ward councillors. 

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Choose your garlic

If you’re coming along to buy some garlic bulbs, you can find information about the varieties that we have available on our web site

Garlic bulbs available in 2020

We’ll also have some onion sets, seeds and plants available.

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How you can help

We know it’s short notice for our stall. We hope you can make it on Saturday – and if you can help to let other people In the local area know it’s happening, we really appreciate it. You might also want to offer to pick something up for others who have been shielding. If you’d like to buy something but can’t get there, please let us know and between us we’ll do our best to help.

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Supported by our councillors

Our new contactless payments facility 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 continuing encouragement and personal support.

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Thank you

We also wanted to say thank you to everyone who has shared some fruit or vegetables for our autumn preserves, and thank you to everyone who has helped us to organise the stall.

If you have any questions about the stall, you can contact us at: GrowingNewsome@gmail.com

Photo by Steve F, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Growing Newsome’s 2018 homegrown preserves for sale

We have a selection of preserves available now, all freshly made this Summer and Autumn from fruit and vegetables grown in the Newsome area…

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Christmas gift boxes – £5 each

We’re offering our popular gift boxes again this year. Each box contains two 8oz jars of homemade preserves – you can choose the contents from our selection of jams, jellies and marmalade. Look out for more Autumn preserves as we make them.

They are boxed with a pretty fabric ribbon and tag (designs vary).

Choose any two jars:

• Jam – Strawberry Jam, Blackberry and Apple Jam, Blackcurrant Jam, Rhubarb and Ginger Jam, Courgette and Ginger Jam*
• Jelly – Redcurrant Jelly*, Apple and Strawberry Jelly*, Grape Jelly,
  Apple Jelly with Elderberries
• Marmalade – Orange marmalade* (homemade, not homegrown)

*low stock

Easy to recycle or reuse

Our gift boxes are fully recyclable. The box, tag, labels and stickers are made of paper and card. Our ribbons are fabric, which can be composted or reused.

You’re welcome to return the jars to us at any Growing Newsome event or Newsome Forum meeting, or glass can be taken to bottle banks or recycling centres.

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Individual jars – £2.40 each

We also have a selection of individual 1lb jars of preserves:

Strawberry and Raspberry Jam
Strawberry and Lime Jam
Rhubarb and Ginger Jam
Redcurrant Jelly

Apart from the citrus fruits, all our fresh ingredients are homegrown, so we have limited supplies and therefore not every preserve may be available in every jar size. 

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Delivery or collection

You can pick up your preserves from us in Newsome or in Huddersfield Town Centre – or we may be able to drop them off for you if you’re nearby. Please email growingnewsome@gmail.com to make an order.

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Natural Kirklees Summer Gala – 12th August 2018

Natural Kirklees Summer Gala

Sunday 12th August 2018

From 12 noon to 4pm

Venue: Greenhead Park, Huddersfield

Park information
Map & directions

Join us in the park this Sunday for local food & family fun

Natural Kirklees and the Parks and Greenspaces Team at Kirklees Council are hosting a special Summer Gala for groups who are involved in parks and green spaces in Kirklees. It’s a great opportunity to meet local environmental groups and there are lots of fun activities to try, both in the event marquee and around the park.

Join us in Greenhead Park on Sunday 12th August to meet lots of community groups, learn about what they do and take part in fun activities including: go on a mini bug hunt and find out the ideal lunch for a duck with River Holme Connections, learn about Clem’s Garden who work together to grow and sell flowers, supporting local charities and community projects with their profits, browse the Support to Recovery (S2R) plant stall, join in the Big Butterfly Count around the park, or create a piece of artwork using natural materials with Growing Works.

Growing Newsome will be there with plenty of home made treats, made from fruit and vegetables that have been grown in Newsome and donated by our generous volunteers and friends. Please come and visit us in the marquee on the event field near the top of the park (just across from the miniature train tracks). Our stall is open from 1pm to 4pm.

Music – Enjoy the sound of brass in the great outdoors with Slaithwaite Band. They will be performing on the Greenhead Park bandstand from 2pm to 4pm as part of a programme of concerts organised by the Friends of Greenhead Park. Limited seating is available and you are welcome to bring your own folding chairs or rugs.  Free – there will be a collection in aid of the Friends of Greenhead Park. There will also be music from the Ukulele Band in the marquee.

Refreshments – The Friends of Greenhead Park will be serving tea and cakes throughout the afternoon in the marquee – and running a craft building extravaganza.

We hope to see you there.

 

Growing Newsome’s 2017 homegrown preserves for sale

We have a selection of preserves available now, all freshly made this Summer and Autumn from fruit and vegetables grown in the Newsome area…

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Christmas gift boxes – £5 each

We’re offering our popular gift boxes again this year. Each box contains two 8oz jars of homegrown preserves – you can choose the contents from our selection of jams, jellies and pickles. Look out for more Autumn preserves as we make them.

They are boxed with a pretty fabric ribbon and tag (designs may vary).

Choose any two jars:

• Jam – Plum, Plum and Apple*, Blackberry and Apple, Tayberry and Lime, Blackcurrant, Strawberry, Rhubarb and Ginger, Courgette and Ginger,
  Rich Summer Fruit*.
• Jelly – Redcurrant*, Blackcurrant, Bramble.
• Other preserves – Sweet Pickled Beetroot, Rhubarb and Ginger sauce
  (with pear and orange).

*low stock

Easy to recycle or reuse

Our gift boxes are fully recyclable. The box, tag, labels and stickers are made of paper and card. Our ribbons are fabric, which can be composted or reused.

Glass jars can be taken to bottle banks or recycling centres – or you’re welcome to return the jars to us at any Growing Newsome event.

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Christmas gift bags – £7 each

Our gift bags contain two 1lb jars of some of our most popular preserves. Choose any two of: Blackberry and Apple Jam, Plum Jam*, Blackcurrant Jelly, Rhubarb and Ginger Jam, Orange Marmalade. The sturdy paper bags have windows, a pretty fabric ribbon, a Christmas tag and a “Handmade with love” sticker.

*low stock

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Individual jars*

We also have a good selection of individual jars of preserves. Please ask for our latest information on 6oz, 12oz and 1lb jars.

*Prices
Our standard individual preserves are:
£2.40 (1Ib jar) or £2.20 (12oz jar) or £1.80 (8oz jar).

Our chutney is £2 for an 8oz jar.
Our beetroot is £2.20 for a 12oz jar.
Our quince jelly (soft set) is £1.80 for a 6oz jar.

Apart from the citrus fruits, all our fresh ingredients are homegrown, so we have limited supplies and therefore not every preserve may be available in every jar size. 

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Delivery or collection

You can pick up your preserves from us in Newsome or in Huddersfield Town Centre – or we may be able to drop them off for you if you’re nearby. Please email growingnewsome@gmail.com to make an order.

or visit our stall

• Christmas Craft Market – Saturday 25th November 2017
  10am to 2pm at Berry Brow Methodist Church, Birch Road, Berry Brow

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Stirley Farm Food Festival – 30th September 2017

Stirley Farm Food Festival
Saturday 30th September 2017
11am to 9pm

Join us for this very popular annual food festival. It’s a day of food, fun and celebration on our local wildlife-friendly farm.

There will be games, crafts, stalls and more to keep all the family entertained. Come see how the farm is developing and taste some delicious home grown food.

You can pick up some locally grown goodies from the Growing Newsome stall, including jams and other preserves made from fruit and vegetables grown in Newsome and donated by local volunteers and friends.

 

Stalls and activities on the day include:

• Local food and crafts
• Beer and cider tent
• Cocktails and live music
• Stalls from local producers
• Veg from the farm
• Cookery demonstrations
• Crafts local to the area
• Kids tent with fun activities for children
• Music and beer until 9pm

The festival is a drop in event and admission is free. There are charges for some activities and for food and drink.

Stirley Food Festival 2017 poster (PDF)

Venue location

Stirley Community Farm
off Hall Bower Lane
Berry Brow
Huddersfield
HD4 6RP

Grid reference
SE147136

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Organised by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

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Natural Kirklees Charity Fete – 13th August 2017

Natural Kirklees Charity Fete

Sunday 13th August 2017

From 1pm to 4pm

Venue: Greenhead Park, Huddersfield

Park information
Map & directions

Join us in the park this Sunday for local food & family fun

Natural Kirklees, Friends of Greenhead Park and the Parks and Greenspaces Team at Kirklees Council are hosting a special Charity Fete for groups who are involved in parks and green spaces in Kirklees. The Fete is a great opportunity to meet local environmental groups and there are lots of fun activities to try, both in the event marquee and around the park.

Join us in Greenhead Park on Sunday 13th August for family fun games and activities including mindful movement workshops, making fruit kebabs and drinks, a duck salad bar, nordic walking, pond dipping, forest school fun, origami, raffles, crafty activities and a chance to try out different mountain bikes. You can also purchase seasonal fruit, herbs and vegetables. There will be music from Hade Edge Band and the Ukulele Band. The Friends of Greenhead Park will be serving tea and cakes in the marquee.

Growing Newsome will be there with plenty of home made treats, made from fruit and vegetables that have been grown in Newsome and donated by our generous volunteers and friends. Please come and visit us in the marquee on the event field near the top of the park (just across from the miniature train tracks). Our stall is open from 1pm to 4pm.

At 2pm Enjoy the sound of brass in the great outdoors with Hade Edge Band. They will be performing on the Greenhead Park bandstand as part of a programme of concerts organised by the Friends of Greenhead Park. Limited seating is available and you are welcome to bring your own folding chairs or rugs.  Free – there will be a collection in aid of the Friends of Greenhead Park.

At 1.30pm, 2.30pm & 3.30pm Take part in Nordic Walking or Pond Dipping in the park. You can register at the information stall.

We hope to see you there.