🇮🇹 Belisimo Pasta Day! Children made delizioso homemade pasta from scratch 🍝, tomato 🍅 sauce & pesto 🌱plus loads of salads & dressings - all using our glorious homegrown produce. Plus a super-fruity Tiramisu for pudding 🍓🧁. What a mightily tasty day indeed.
Thank you to our brilliant team of staff, sessional staff and youth volunteers who have been working so hard to make this an exceptionally special summer of workshops for our local children & families.
And thank you to @hwherefordshire #herefordshiretogether fund for supporting our cook workshops this holiday 🥰🤗❤️🤩
Book your place on the EVENTS page of our website https://growinglocal.org.uk/events/
#cook #learntocook #cooktogether #eattogether #workshop #holidays #children #whatson #southwye #hereford #summerholidays
A truly fab Monday at the Growing Local children’s garden for our family GLORIOUS GARDENS workshop.
Loads of muddy fun making compost and looking at soil, exploring our new garden, storytelling and making stunning art work with photographic sun paper to take home 💙. We got the children harvesting our produce and making their own super-tasty wrap lunch - with Simon’s homemade baba ganoush, cheese and loads of our salad. Fruit & Simon’s flapjacks for pud, yummy! 😋🍅🌮🥗🥒
We have lots more garden-based and indoor cook sessions to go this holiday- book your places on the EVENTS page of our website: https://growinglocal.org.uk/events/
A very big thank you to our funders @georges_fund & @herefordcitycouncil who have supported our garden-based holiday sessions this summer 💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻
#summerholiday #families #children #whatson #southwye #hereford #gardening #growing #getgrowing #workshop
Yesterday was our first cook workshop of the hols. A ‘Build a Burger’ family workshop making super-tasty bean burgers, beef burgers 🍔, rainbow 🌈 wedges (beetroot, carrot, 🥕 sweet potato 🍠 & potato 🥔), a salad 🥗 bar with all our lovely produce from the garden, herby dressings & sprinkles. Plus strawberry 🍓’Nice’ cream for pudding.
Lots more sessions to book over the next few weeks, please visit the Events page on our website (link in bio). Only £2.50/child!
#cook #learntocook #family #cooktogether #eattogether #workshops #summer #summerholiday
Yesterday kicked off our first of twenty summer holiday workshops! Children made gorgeous mini gardens to take home and nurture, designed bunting for our garden, explored the site, picked our lovely produce and made their own tasty wraps for lunch (followed by homemade flapjacks & fruit). Happy children, happy families and happy staff!
Head to the EVENTS page of our website to book your children or family onto our COOK, GROW, CRAFT or NATURE sessions - lots of places left for THIS THURSDAY at the garden!
https://growing-local.org.uk/events/
Thank you to @georges_fund @herefordcitycouncil & @hwherefordshire #HerefordshireTogether for supporting our holiday programme
#children #families #holiday #summerholiday #whatson #southwye #hereford
Friday’s Kindle Seniors Community Lunch. Mediterranean Chicken, Ratatouille, Roast New Potatoes & Veggies 🍆 🌱🍅🫑🫛 using some of our own first harvests of veggies & herbs. A Strawberry 🍓 Tiramisu for pudding 🍰
Thank you to Jenny & Michelle for your food prep on Thursday and all the Kindle staff & volunteers for helping serve on Friday 🥰🙏
#communitylunch #kindlecentre #southwye #hereford
A fantastic Big Eat yesterday @ The Kindle Centre cooking together an Italian 🇮🇹 feast. Lasagne, Pasta with Tommie Sauce 🍝 or Homemade Pesto, loads of salads 🥗 and Crostini toasts. And a super-fruity Tiramisu for pudding 🍓🍰
Cucumbers, Lettuce and the Basil from our garden! Our very first CSA crops grown right here in Hereford 🥒🌱🥒
Thank you to everyone who came along yesterday to help cook, wash up, serve & eat! The next Big Eat will be on Saturday 28th Sept
#cooktogether #eattogether #community #cook #lunch #communitylunch #southwye #hereford
Our children’s garden is really taking shape, thanks to all the schools and our youth and adult volunteers who have really helped make this happen.
And of course to Kathy & Simon, our super-star education team!
#thankyou #volunteer #youthvolunteer #DofE #schools #education #southwye #hereford
Last week @ the Children’s Garden in a reel. Visits from Kingstone and Brookfield schools, plus our weekly DofE youth volunteers. Thanks to Widemarsh Ventures for delivering and setting up our new shed and honesty farm shop (come and buy a cucumber)! And thanks to all our volunteers on Tuesday and Saturday. What a brilliant week 💪👏💚🥒🙏🌱
#growinglocal #childrensgarden #education #southwye #hereford #schools #DofE #volunteer #youthvolunteer
Another busy week for the Growing Local team. Visits from Riverside Primary, Aconbury & St David’s Centres and our DofE group - activities included the making of stinky fertiliser potions! A fantastic adult volunteer day on Tuesday (special thanks to Andy on his patio laying) and a very tasty Italiano 🇮🇹 lunch club at the Tupsley Whitehouse on Friday (the Raspberry Tiramisu was a knock out - to be repeated!).
We were assisted all week by Lily on work experience from Hereford Sixth Form college - we can’t wait to welcome Lily back to help with our holiday activity programme.
Our CSA veggies are coming along nicely ready for our veggie scheme to start in July - thanks to growers Katie & Laurie. Do come along to our open day on Saturday to find out how it will work….and buy our early gluts of cucumbers 🥒!
#growinglocal #growinglocalcsa #southwye #hereford #education #schools #volunteering
Last week at the Growing Local Children’s Garden we had visits from Brookfield Y7s and Y9s, Aconbury & St David’s, Hereford & Ludlow College and our DofE group. Lots of tasks achieved, planting, tending, making mini gardens and some groups even got to make elderflower cordial!
Plus our usual volunteer day on Tuesday - planting thousands of leeks (11,000 to be exact!). We were joined on the day by the new High Sheriff of Herefordshire, Pat Churchward who had a slightly soggy tour of the site 💦☔️💚🌱
#growinglocal #growinglocalcsa #communitysupportedagriculture #education #schools #southwye #hereford
Yesterday’s ploughman’s picnic on a plate lunch for the Kindle D-Day 80th Anniversary. Mini Sausage & Apple Rolls (with fantastic Hedges sausage meat), mini Tomato & Basil Quiche, Cheese Scones, Herby Potato Salad, Salad, Cheese, Ham & Rolls. With Strawberry Cream Meringues for pud (thank you to S&A produce for their generous 🍓 donation). All herbs 🌿 🌱 from our garden!
A very special day indeed, which we were honoured to cater for. Thank you to Michelle, Jenny, Anna and Maria for all your volunteer help cooking and everyone from @closehousehfd and the Kindle volunteers who came along to serve. Good to see Mr Mayor in chains before we got him busy serving too!
#volunteer #volunteersweek #community #communitylunch #southwye #hereford
Full house today at The Kindle! Salads 🥗 🥬 and edible flowers 🌺 from the Growing Local Children’s & CSA Gardens including basil 🌱coriander and borage cream sauces. Also veggie or beef enchiladas & slaw. Spanish rice pud with apricot and rhubarb sauce for pud 🍚. Delicioso!
Next lunch club is at the Tupsley Whitehouse on Friday 14th June 10.30 to 1.30. Book your place via email [email protected]. £2.50 per person.
#lunchclub #cookclub #cooktogether #eattogether #community #lunch #hereford
It’s been another productive week at Growing Local. We have a new water storage tank, new growing beds in the Children’s garden, our signboard painted, seeds sown, weeding galore and the base for another shed constructed!
Thanks to all our adult and youth super-star volunteers. We couldn’t deliver this project without you!
#growinglocal #growinglocalcsa #education #schools #dofe #volunteer #community #southwye #hereford
Lunch is served at today’s Big Greek Eat
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What a brilliant day we had at our Big Greek Eat today! So so much fun, laughter and banter cooking together a delicioso Greek feast inc Greek chicken, roast veggies 🍅, roast new potatoes, Greek salad 🥗, tzatziki, hummus, marinaded olives 🫒, spanakopita Feta & spinach pie (with our Growing Local spinach!), and mini tiropitaki pies 🥧. With Greek yogurt, fruits, nuts & honey for pudding. What a feast!
Thank you to everyone who came along to cook, wash up and eat - we had a brilliant turnout. And thank you to all the Kindle & Growing Local staff and volunteers for yet another awesome and memorable Big Eat.
Our next Big Eat will be on Saturday 29th June - the rumour is we’re heading to Italy 🇮🇹 for this one!
#bigeat #biggreekeat #kindlecentre #hereford #southwye #cooktogether #eattogether #community #communitylunch
A little video tour of today’s cooking action @ The Big Greek Eat The Kindle Centre What a brilliant day we all had!
This week we’ve had visits to our garden from Aconbury, St David’s & @herefordshirecollege Lots of planting out, weeding, watering and harvesting (our spinach and radish are ready!).
If you have a school or group who would like to visit us please do get in touch to [email protected] - we are now taking bookings from primary Y4 age and above.
#education #schools #growinglocal #learntogrow #southwye #hereford
What a day! We are so incredibly excited to be planting out our very first veggies in our Growing Local CSA - tomatoes, peppers, aubergines & basil 🍅🍆🫑🌱
Thank you to everyone who came along to help with the first planting. Special thanks to our awesome growers Katie & Laurie for getting us to this day - it certainly hasn’t been easy with so many challenging set backs. But today the sun shone ☀️and our two fabulous Five Star Polytunnels were filled with glorious summer veggies 🍅🫑🍆🌱. The outdoor planting starts next week.
We are hoping to begin our CSA veggie shares from early July. Please do check out our website to see lots more info about how our CSA (community supported agriculture) will work and how you can buy a share in local Hereford veggies 🥦🧅🥕🥒🍆🍅🫛🫑🌱
#cropshares #vegbox #csa #communitysupportedagriculture #growinglocalcsa #growinglocal #southwye #hereford
Thank you to everyone who came along to our first Open Day and Family-Friendly Volunteer Session of the year. ☀️🌱🤩
We talked and walked our way around the site to see the Children’s Garden, new Orchards, Polytunnels and CSA growing areas. Plus some squash seed sowing and laying of paths in our polytunnels.
Our next Saturday Info Open Day /Volunteer Session will be on 22nd June.
#openday #info #csa #growinglocal #growinglocalcsa #volunteer #southwye #hereford
Thanks to GCSE pupils from @herefordshirecollege and our own DofE volunteer group yesterday we have a new framework for our peas 🫛🫛🫛 and lots of happy pea plants planted out into the big wide world of our children’s garden. Nice to see my son Jacques taking part too!
Thank you youth volunteers! Please get in touch if you know of anyone who would like to attend our (free) Wednesday after school sessions - email [email protected]
#volunteer #youthvolunteer #growinglocal #growinglocalcsa #southwye #hereford #DofE
