Category: This and that


Festival today!

Come and see tractors, steam engines, listen to Aylsham Band and watch children making tractors, their own bread and butter, sowing seeds and looking for worms! Grab a cuppa and cake and sit in the churchyard.

Haveringland Harvest Festival today 2.30-5pm at St. Peter’s Church, Haveringland, just off Haveringland Road between Cawston and Felthorpe, Norfolk, about 10 miles north of Norwich.

Old School Gardener

 

Amazing wooden tractor- but will it travel?

Amazing wooden tractor- but will it travel?

We love visiting community gardens whenever we can find one to explore. We like to see what they are trying to do and particularly how gardening is involved in their client activities. We were delighted to find one open under the auspices of the National Garden Scheme not far away just over the Welsh border […]

via Ponthafren – an amazing community garden. — greenbenchramblings

Picture  by Crystal Myles

Picture by Crystal Myles

Originally published by WINnERS, 15 Jul 2016. Read the original post here. By William Thompson In March, I travelled to Central and Northern Tanzania with the World Food Programme (WFP) team, to visit several farmer organisations that are participating in the Patient Procurement Platform (PPP). The PPP is an emanation of WFP’s smallholder sourcing policy, […]

via Visiting drought prone regions in Tanzania — One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?

PicPost: Non Stop

Picture by Eva Kovacs

Picture by Eva Kovacs

Visiting churches and cemeteries…

via Why are Cemeteries Beautiful? — Garden Walk Garden Talk

Learn how to beat pesky pests, plant perfect plants and wave goodbye to the weeds with our step-by-step guides from the garden team at Winterbourne…

via Monthly Masterclass: September — Digging for Dirt

What is the best pastel de nata in Lisbon? The answer depends on our mood. Some days, we like them perfumed with lemon. Other days, we prefer them scented with vanilla. Our current favorites are the lemony kind. They are made by Manteigaria in Praça Camões near Chiado at a location that was once occupied […]

via Sweet moments in Lisbon — Salt of Portugal

My August entries in my Garden Journal 2016 see me beginning Volume Two. On the first page I look back to my original garden journal’s August entries. “I made my first ever entries for our new garden in August 2003. We moved to “Avocet” our Plealey home on 8th August. I wrote, “The garden needs our […]

via My Garden Journal in August — greenbenchramblings

Does every day seem the same? Then why not have a ‘Green Day’, when you get up in the morning announce to your children that you are going ‘Green’, this is where your imagination plays a part and a bit of forward planning is advisable. Here are some ideas for a ‘Green Day’: Get dressed in […]

via Why not have a ‘Green’ Day? — Gardening with Children

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