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Harvest update
Harvest training
What's on
What to eat & grow now
Project support
Misc bits
Harvest update
Grow It! Growing your own veg & fruit isn’t just for the home garden or allotment – you can get growing at work too! Grow It, our new growing competition for businesses, is all about encouraging more people to get growing in whatever space they have, greening the streets of Brighton at the same time! Why not encourage your workplace, or favourite bar, restaurant or cafe, to enter? Find out more info and how to enter, and see who’s signed up already.
Harvest intership opportunity: Food Matters is seeking an intern to help research and create a Planning Advisory Note, and other materials, which provide information to planners and developers on how best to include food growing in their proposals for new developments in the City. Please see attached for more information.
Preston Park demonstration vegetable garden: The demo garden has just had it’s first harvest: a bumper crop of beautiful lettuces! Keep up to date with developments at the garden through our garden blog.
The Food Partnership is recruiting! We are seeking a part-time coordinator for our Healthy Weight Referral Scheme. Find out more...
Harvest training
Seasonal summer cooking: There’s still time to register for our new hands-on 6 week course on cooking with early summer produce. The course starts on 10 June – register now! Find out more...
Harvest Summer and Autumn Food Growing Courses: Improve your garden this Summer and Autumn with the help of Harvest! Two courses in the summer / autumn programme are as follows – more to be announced soon:
3 July: Dealing with Pests Organically
24 July: Seed Saving
Please call 01273 431700 or email harvest@bhfood.org.uk to register your interest.
What’s on: As ever, there are lots of great food-related events coming up...
Springwatch: 6 June, Stanmer Park. A day of fun for all ages, celebrating Spring and the importance of biodiversity. There will be information stalls, activities (Harvest will be making seed bombs for bees and some salad planting) and much more.
Community Cafe Training: 15 June, 10 – 4, Greenwich (London). This is a course for anyone who is currently working in a community cafe or who plans to set one up and promises to be an extremely useful, informative day with plenty of practical tools to take away. Places are limited, so contact Mel Taylor for more information on mel@gcda.org.uk or 020 8269 4880.
Pick and Cook: 18 June, Moulsecoomb Forest Garden. This event exemplifies the ‘from plot to plate’ idea! Wander around the project, pick what is ready for harvesting, then cook it up into delicious meals with Food Partnership chef, Anna Schwarz. No fee but booking is essential. Find out more...
Take Part Day: 19 June, 12:00 – 5:00. A day of fun for all ages in Preston Park all about getting out and getting active. Come visit the Harvest stall in the Eat Well Zone! Find out more...
Garden Gadabout: 25 June – 4 July. Incredible gardens around the city will be open to the public to raise funds for Sussex Beacon. If you’d like to open your garden, it’s not too late to get involved! Keep an eye on the website to find out about an open garden near you...
Have a look at the Harvest website for a listing of events, training courses and farmers’ markets.
June growing & eating tips
In the kitchen...It’s getting to that exciting time of year when it seems that winter produce may well be behind us! Asparagus is still around (get it while you can!), and broad beans, peas and strawberries should be appearing in shops and markets any day now. And there’s lots of lettuce and plenty of other delicious greens around to go into a refreshing salad. See our recipe index for more seasonal eating ideas.
In the garden...keep harvesting salad leaves, but keep sowing salad too so you can have a fresh supply all summer long! Outdoor tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers and sweet corn plants can go outside at the beginning of the month. If you didn’t start these plants under cover you can sow them directly into the ground at the beginning of the month under a plastic cloche. And make sure you keep watering during hot, dry spells.
More June gardening tips…
Funding & project support
Learning Outside the Classroom Award: Awards to recognise innovative and inspirational learning establishments that provide opportunities for learning beyond the classroom for young people up to age 19. The awards are open to schools, colleges, early years settings and youth organisations and the learning can take place on school grounds or through visits to farms, etc. Find out more...
A few other bits
Stanmer Park Transport survey: Fork and Dig It, along with Nourish and The Big Lemon are undertaking a survey regarding transport into Stanmer Park. Please click here to complete this brief survey.
Bee not afraid: The swarm season is upon us. Honey bee swarms are a fairly common sight, but can be frightening to those who do not know what is happening. Bee swarming is a natural part of the reproductive life cycle of the honey bee, and essential to increase the number of bee colonies - by splitting their existing colony. Capture of swarms is important, especially as many colonies are dying out year on year. Read more...
Let us know what you think about Harvest news! We’re planning to re-format the newsletter, and while we’re doing that we’d be really interested to hear any comments you have about the newsletter. Does it contain too much info, too little, or is it just about right? Is there anything other food-growing related topic you’d like to hear about? Please send your thoughts to harvest@bhfood.org.uk.
Have a great bank holiday weekend!
The Harvest Team
To find out more and keep in touch with Harvest, you can find us at www.harvest-bh.org.uk or become a fan of Harvest on Facebook.
Harvest is a city-wide project, delivered by a wide range of partners and led by Brighton & Hove Food Partnership and Food Matters. The Food Partnership is a membership organisation, and membership is free to anyone who lives or works in Brighton & Hove. For benefits of membership and to join go to: www.bhfood.org.uk
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