December 2021 newsletter

Dear reader, If the snow gave you that festive feeling, we invite you to join us on the Orchard to make your own decorations at our Community Open Day, or relax by the fire at our Family session and Adventure Play on 22nd December. Details of all those events and more can be found below.…

Onions by Paul Freeborough

With Christmas approaching, you may be thinking of presents for your nearest and dearest. Five gold rings would be nice, or even a partridge in a pear tree. How about a string of onions?  Before World War II, 90% of onions, a staple of British cooking, were imported into Britain, although they could so easily have been grown in British…