Autumn Gathering – Saturday 15th October 2016

Love local food? There’s lots for you to enjoy at this event…

Autumn Gathering

Saturday 15th October 2016
10am to 1pm

Newsome Scout Hall
Newsome Road South
Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Lots of preserves and other goodies made from fruit, vegetables and herbs grown in Newsome.

Kids crafts – get creative in our craft corner using natural materials to make a collage or creature.

Reading Circle book stall (with all sorts of books).

Recipes  and tasters – find out what you can make.

Produce share – please bring along any surplus fruit or vegetables that you’d like to share.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes available.

Information about local volunteering, events and activities.

Jam jar amnesty – clean, small jam jars (1 Ib or less) are welcome.

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Autumn Planting:

Autumn planting vegetables for you to take home – including a great selection of garlic bulbs, onions, shallots, seeds and some fruit and veg plants.

Protect your plants – good quality plant protection fabric on sale by the metre.

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Souper Soups:
served from 12 noon to 1pm
Enjoy a choice of seasonal soups for lunch at the Scout Hall, made with local vegetables and served with a selection of fresh local breads, followed by a hot Autumn pudding made with local fruit.

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How you can help:

• Display a poster:
  Autumn Gathering poster (PDF)
• Bring something for the cake stall.
• Bring along the rest of the family or bring a friend.
• Please get in touch if you’d like to come along and help out on the day.

Organised by Growing Newsome

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Autumn Gathering – Saturday 17th October 2015

Love local food?
There’s lots for you to enjoy at this event…

Autumn Gathering

Saturday 17th October 2015
10am to 1pm

Newsome Scout Hall
Newsome Road South
Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

 

Jam, pickles, chutney and other goodies made from fruit, vegetables and herbs grown in Newsome.

Kids craft activities – get creative in our craft corner.

Reading Circle book stall (with all sorts of books).

Recipes  and tasters – find out what you can make.

Produce swap – please bring along anything you’d like to share.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes available.

Information about local volunteering, events and activities.

Jam jar amnesty – clean, small jam jars (1 Ib or less) are welcome.

 

Autumn Planting:

Autumn planting vegetables for you to take home – including a great selection of garlic, onions, shallots, seeds and overwintering greens.

Protect your plants – good quality plant protection fabric on sale by the metre.

 

Souper Soups:
served from 12 noon to 1pm
Enjoy a choice of seasonal soups for lunch at the Scout Hall, made with local vegetables and served with a selection of fresh local breads, followed by a hot pudding made with local fruit.

How you can help:

• Display a poster:
  Autumn Gathering poster (PDF)
• Bring something for the cake stall.
• Bring along the rest of the family or bring a friend.
• Please get in touch if you’d like to come along and help out on the day.

 

Organised by Growing Newsome

 

Growing Newsome Recipe Book

We’ll be publishing our first Growing Newsome Recipe Book in 2015 – and we’d really like you to be part of it. We’ll be choosing recipes that match the character of our growing community, so we’re looking for recipes where the main ingredient (or ingredients) is something that you can grow yourself, or something that you can pick in the wild (sorry, no meat or fish dishes and no tropical fruit salad!).

Your recipe could feature vegetables, fruits, herbs, edible flowers or leaves. It can be any kind of food, including soups, main courses, snacks, puddings or preserves.

Growing Newsome is about people and the connections between us, so we’d also like to hear the stories behind your recipes. For example, if it’s an old family recipe, please tell us something about the person who passed it on to you. Or perhaps your recipe reminds you of a particular event or time? Maybe you just want to tell us something about your experience of making the recipe or growing the ingredients.

You’re also very welcome to send us a photo instead of (or as well as) your story.

 

How to share your recipes

Please bring your recipes along to our Recipe Corner at:

• Stirley Community Farm, in the Cre8 barn
  Sunday 1st February from 10am to 1pm
• Newsome Scout Hall, at the Growing Newsome Seed Swap and Potato Day
  Saturday 7th March from 10am to 1pm

Or send your recipe and your story or photo to us at: growingnewsome@gmail.com – remember to include your name and postal address.

The deadline for entries is Friday 20th March 2015.

If we feature your recipe, you will receive a copy of the book.

Autumn Gathering – Saturday 4th October 2014

Love local food?
There’s lots for you to enjoy at this event…

Autumn Gathering

Saturday 4th October 2014
10am to 1pm at
Newsome Scout Hall
Newsome Road South
Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

 

Jam, chutney, pickles and other goodies made from fruit, vegetables and herbs grown in Newsome.

Kids crafts – get creative by making a clay creature with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Guess the weight of the veg – win a Stirley Farm veg box.

Reading Circle book stall (with all sorts of books).

Recipes – bring along your ideas for our first Growing Newsome Recipe Book.

Produce swap – please bring along anything you’d like to share.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes available.

Food In Your Community – see the results of our community research in Newsome.

Information about local volunteering, training and activities.

Plant pot and jam jar amnesty – clean, small pots & jars (1 Ib or less) welcome.

 

Autumn Planting:

Autumn planting vegetables for you to take home – including a selection of garlic, onions, shallots, seeds and winter greens.

Protect your plants – good quality plant protection fabric on sale by the metre.

 

Souper Soups:
served from 12 noon to 1pm
Enjoy a choice of seasonal soups for lunch at the Scout Hall, made with local vegetables and served with fresh bread from the Handmade Bakery in Slaithwaite, followed by a hot pudding made with local fruit.

How you can help:

• Display a poster:
  Autumn Gathering 2014 (pdf)
• Bring something along for the cake stall.
• Bring along all the kids in your family or bring a friend.
• Please get in touch if you’d like to come along and help out on the day.

 

Organised by Growing Newsome

 

Summer treats stall at Berry Brow Carnival – 21st June 2014

Berry Brow Carnival
Saturday 21st June from 1pm
Berry Brow Recreation Ground
off Ladyhouse Lane, Berry Brow

Come and visit our stall at the annual Berry Brow Carnival.

We’ll be celebrating Midsummer with some home grown treats for you to taste and recipes to take away.

We’ll also have some plants for you to choose from and anything else that we can rustle up in the meantime.

Also look out for the Reading Circle stall next door and lots of activities and other stalls around the field. We hope to see you there.

Do you love food and hate waste?

Look out for the ‘Love Food, Hate Waste’ stall at our Growing Newsome event on 17th May 2014 from 10am to 1pm at Newsome Scout Hall.

There will be some simple tools available to help us all cut down on the amount of food that we waste.

Come and pick up some free bag clips, a rice measure and other things to help you store and measure food at home and cut down on waste.

There will also be advice and tips on offer such as:

• How to preserve fruit and vegetables to make them last longer.
• Advice on portion control so that food isn’t wasted.
• Recipe ideas for using up leftovers.
• Advice on date labels and what to do with items past their ‘best before’.

Our thanks to Kirklees Council for providing these activities.

Autumn Gathering – Saturday 12th October 2013

Join us for a day of events to celebrate & share local food

Saturday 12th October

Autumn Fair
10am to 1pm at
Newsome Scout Hall
Newsome Road South
Huddersfield HD4 6JJ

Make a bird feeder with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust or paint a stone plant marker.

Jam, chutney & pickles on sale – made in Newsome from local produce.

Autumn planting vegetables for you to take home – garlic, onions and winter salads.

Guess the weight of the pumpkin – win a prize.

Cake stall – home made cakes to buy or taste.

Reading Circle book stall (with all sorts of books).

Recipes for you to take home – or bring a recipe to share.

Produce swap – please bring along your home grown fruit or veg.

Plant protection fleece on sale, by the metre.

Information about local activities, training and volunteering.

Tea, coffee and home made cakes available.

Plant pot and jam jar amnesty – please bring along your spare pots and jars.

 

Souper Soups:
served from 12 noon to 1pm
Enjoy a choice of seasonal soups for lunch at the Scout Hall, made with local vegetables and served with fresh bread from the Handmade Bakery in Slaithwaite, followed by a hot pudding made with local fruit.

 

Stirley Farm harvesting:
1pm to 3pm
Join a guided walk from Newsome Scout Hall to the Stirley Farm veg garden, where you will find the ingredients to make your own delicious soup.

How you can help:

• Display a poster:
  Autumn Gathering 2013 poster (pdf)
• Bring something along for the cake stall.
• Bring along all the kids in your family or bring a friend.
• Please get in touch if you’d like to come along and help out on the day.

 

Organised by Growing Newsome and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.