Harvest VegEvent 2010

10.30am. Lucy Cowles on foraging
11.30am. Natasha Moore demonstrating pickles, jams and chutneys
1.30pm. Charles Dowding on extending the grow your own season and storing veg. Donations very welcome and will qualify for a draw with £50 prize of  Garden Centre vouchers
10.30 – 3.00pm an assortment of interesting stands will help you enjoy the bounty of the [...]

Calendula Organics hand-make high quality herbal skin care products from ingredients which are grown and made in the New Forest [...]

Before freezers the Kilner Jar was the favoured method of preserving fruit and some vegetables. Bottling (canning in the US) remains a very efficient method of preserving produce for

Old jars can still be used

consumption later, when home grown fresh food gets scarce.
Fruit bottling is having a revival and Kilner jars are getting pressed back [...]

The objective of our Harvest VegEvent is to help gardeners to make the most of growing their own – storing more, growing more at both ends of the season and getting better results.

Total self sufficiency is a tough one though, very few achieve it and that’s where local producers come in, [...]

An important date for your diary, the next VegEvent will be on September the 18th 2010.

Once again it will be at the Victoria rooms Fordingbridge – all the info to follow soon.

If you missed Charles at the VegEvent you have another chance to be inspired at the Milford on Sea Food food week. He is doing his ‘New Ways with Veg’ talk on the Wednesday.

3pm All Saints Church Hall. Full details on the Milford on Sea Food Week web site you will need to be patient as the Wednesday [...]

If you enjoyed Charles Dowding’s talk at the Spring VegEvent you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a workshop opportunity on March  6th in Brighton:

No digging – can you dig it?

Abundant veg, fewer weeds, less water use and no digging: too good to be true? No – and you can learn how.

Saturday 6 March, 11am-4pm, Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, [...]

When searching the internet for local suppliers of veggie garden essentials I was really surprised to find that within the New Forest we have a cloche manufacturer. I thought that pretty much all propagating  items these days were made on the other side of the world in China….clearly not so.
Here’s what they have to say about their [...]

Earth-friendly gardening writer John Walker looks at the work of the Sarvari Research Trust, who are busy reshaping the ‘carbon footprint’ of growing spuds

Exceptional resistance to potato blight and virus diseases, high yields, even in poor soils, weed-smothering tops (haulms), drought resistance, and a long storage period. What more could you ask of the humble [...]

Isn’t Technology clever! There’s a web site called Wordle that can create a cloud of text based on a web site. The cloud it creates for the VegEvent is great because it encapsulates in an image everything that the VegEvent is about.

VegEvent Wordle

Thanks to http://www.wordle.net