We’ve recently joined Garden Organic and their Heritage Seed Library – and our first batch of heritage seeds have arrived! They include a wide range of unusual varieties of vegetables: Achocha Cabbage – ‘Southampton Wonder’ Carrot – ‘Red Elephant’ Cucumber – ‘Perfection’ Kale – ‘Theyer’ Lettuce – ‘Carnival’ Squash – ‘Greek’ Tomato – ‘Konig Humbert’ […]
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This is a summer dish, really, but we eat it all the year round and everyone loves it. However much you make, however many beans you use, it all seems to go at a sitting. You can use any sort of green beans. The original recipe is, I believe, from Spain and intended for those
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We started our Annual General Meeting (this time celebrating our 100th Anniversary) with an Extraordinary General Meeting in which we voted to accept proxies and lowered the number of people required for a quorum, as in a previous year we nearly needed to enrol someone’s dog to get us over the minimum number required to hold
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The CHAS is affiliated to Garden Organic, who are running a citizen science project with Coventry University on the impact of biochar on crop yield. If you’d like to take part please fill in this form and send it to Garden Organic. Information on biochar project Form to participate in biochar project
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I’ve just come back from an excellent holiday in these two countries and thought I’d share some impressions. The dominant scent of Hungary in spring is of lilac. Lilac trees, in all shades from white through to deep mauve, are everywhere – in gardens, roadside verges and town parks. It’s delicious, if sometimes overwhelming. The
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