Author Archives: Megan

The 'Grow Your Own' Festival brings joy to the whole team - it is a time when we see the hard work of winter and spring coming out into plants and the start of some produce too. Our volunteers work throughout the year to produce vegetables and seedlings so that the community can start their own garden at home. We aim to inspire and support new gardeners in how to grow, forage and harvest their own produce.

With all the vegetables that we produce on the land, we saw a need to do something extraordinary with this food. This is when we discovered Pam, our Food Production Specialist, and her amazing flavours and creativity! Pam observes the land, forages and experiments with flavours and recipes to produce something exceptional for our customers to buy. In our Farm Shop, you'll see the 'Cake of the Week' is always a delicious new flavour and very popular. They have been so sought after, that Pam now takes requests for special events where she will create a bespoke, celebration cake working with you! Pam finds new ways in preserving our produce through fermenting, pickling, chutneys and jams. This prevents wastage across the Farm using as much as she can across the land. If you're keen to try a Pam 'special' then an event day is where you want to be! Pam designs exceptional menus in a street food style for our event days. Please check our event pages on Facebook to see when these will be available and to get those taste buds going as we announce her menu in the lead up.

Our first event of every year is all about celebrating the beginning of Spring! The Farmland is coming to life with blossom growing on the trees and the start of our own produce springing up from the ground. The Shop & Cafe was full of local crafters offering beautiful crafts, jewellery, decopatch, knitting and textiles! There were hot drinks flowing throughout the cafe as well as delicious hot cross buns by our supplier, Communibakes. During this event, we had two workshops available to learn more about our ethical practices and permaculture.

Our Emporium began as a simple swap space. It was an opportunity for people to bring things that worked but they no longer used, so someone else could benefit from it. Just like a book swap but the items could be anything! It started very small. Once we had our Farm Shop more established, we saw an opportunity to make this into a 'Pre-loved Shed' and our Shop Manager at the time created this into a space where people could bing more donations with a 'pay as you feel' attitude, all profits going towards our work on the Farm.