Archive for the 'Food' Category
WildGuernsey Wild food foraging workshops in winter & spring 2012
January 30th, 2012 by Events
WildGuernsey guests sharing wild food at Pouquelaie Vinery (click image to expand - image courtesy of WildGuernsey)
12 February 2012
WildGuernsey at Pouquelaie Vinery, Rocquaine Road, St Pierre du Bois, Guernsey offers an ‘Introduction to WildFood Foraging‘ on Sunday 12 February 2012 from 1 pm to 4 pm. The £30 course includes tapas.
11 March 2012 Continue reading
Gorgeous Guernsey food and cook book by Tony Leck
December 13th, 2011 by Richard Lord
Tony Leck has a produced a delicious book, Pavilion on a Plate – Fresh Flavours of Guernsey, lavishly illustrated with food and farm photography by Ally Clark.
The book encapsulates Guernsey’s food culture with gorgeous recipes and lovely vignettes of island life.
(click book cover to go to Tony Leck's Pavillion on a plate website)
Four Guernsey primary schools compete in the Big Soup Kitchen Challenge to support two charities
December 8th, 2011 by Richard Lord
Four primary schools took part in the Big Soup Kitchen challenge in aid of Bridge2SriLanka and the GSPCA.
The event was held in the Town Church in St Peter Port, Guernsey on 6 December 2011.
Vauvert Primary school, Melrose Junior School, Notre Dame du Rosaire Primary School, and Amherst Primary school prepared four delicious soups.
Primary school soup creators from Vauvert, Melrose and Notre Dame du Rosaire with Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey Air Marshal Peter Walker and his wife Lynda and Sarah Griffith of Bridge2SriLanka between them in a hat, with school teachers Ms Whitehead (left) and Ms. Lampert (right) (click image to expand - ©RLLord)
Vauvert Primary school children assisted by Year 3 teacher Ms. Jerry Whitehead created a beautiful velvety vegetable soup. Continue reading
UN reports global shift towards a low-carbon resource-efficient and socially inclusive green future
November 20th, 2011 by United Nations Environment Programme
(click on report cover to go to United Nations Environment Programme report download page)
A UN report, Towards a Green Economy: Pathways for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication, demonstrates that governments and businesses alike are taking steps to accelerate a global shift towards a low-carbon, resource-efficient and socially inclusive green future.
From China to Barbados, Brazil to South Africa, countries are developing Green Economy strategies and activities to spur greater economic growth and jobs, environmental protection and equality. Continue reading
We need wholesome, seasonal food, raised organically, procured locally, prepared lovingly, and eaten with a reverence for the circle of life
November 4th, 2011 by Center Street
Virginia farmer Joel Salatin is a man with a message for all of us in his book, ‘Folks, this ain’t normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World’ published by Center Street and available from Amazon UK.
(click on book cover to go to book website)
Imagine, four generations of a family living on a farm surrounded by verdant fields and blooming gardens; feasting on compost-grown, pasture-raised food freshly picked or straight from the over-flowing basement larder then minimally prepared in the home kitchen; working together in the barn and fields during the day and gathering around the table at night. Continue reading
Guernsey smallholders offer free class on keeping poultry on 1 November 2011
November 1st, 2011 by Guernsey Smallholders
The Guernsey Smallholders are providing a free class on poultry keeping beginning at 7 for 7.30 pm on Tuesday 1 November 2011 at the British Showjumping Ground meeting hall, Chemin Le Roi, off Forest Road, St Martin (in the back lane behind St Margaret’s Lodge Hotel).
A chicken and chicks by Sausmarez Road on 28 July 2011 (click image to expand - ©RLLord)
The evening is completely free and a great way to learn about different aspects of keeping all kinds of poultry.
Please contact Sarah Brown on 07781 108930 or Claire Febrache on 07781 154992 for any queries about this event.
November 4 deadline to enter Guernsey primary and infant schools gardening competition
October 21st, 2011 by Bedell Group
THE Little Green Fingers Schools’ Project – sponsored by Bedell in association with Floral Guernsey – aims to help Bailiwick children to understand environmental issues and experience gardening at school.
BBC Gardener Alys Fowler joins Forest Primary School children and teachers and Ann Wragg of Floral Guernsey to launch Guernsey school gardening competition (click image to expand - Image courtesy of Bedell Group)
The school gardening competition runs for a year and winners will be announced in July 2012.
The first prize winner will be offered the choice of one of the following: either the David Hunt bushcraft workshop or £1,000 cash. Continue reading
Sustainable diets benefit farmers, consumers and the environment
October 10th, 2011 by WWF
The report, A Square Meal, by WWF and the Food Ethics Council (FEC) argues that Government has a clear role, and a mandate, to promote sustainable food consumption in the UK.
(click on the report cover to download to your computer from the WWF)
A Square Meal, suggests that, despite the inherent complexities, it is possible to achieve the goals of promoting healthier diets, reducing the environmental impacts of food, and supporting British farmers and producers. Continue reading
Europe is more dependent on foreign land to provide it with products than any other region
October 10th, 2011 by Friends of the Earth
Europe is more dependent on foreign land to provide it with products such as food and clothes than any other region in the world, research published by Friends of the Earth reveals, as UN negotiations to regulate land-grabbing begin at the Rome summit.
(click report cover to download full report (5 mb))
The report calculates different national and regional ‘land footprints’ – land used domestically plus land used overseas to provide imported products such as crops and wood, minus the land used for exports – and exposes the reasons behind an international rush to buy land. Continue reading
Ethnobotanist James Wong visits Amherst Primary School Gardening Club to share his knowledge
October 9th, 2011 by Bedell Group
Ethnobotanist and TV gardener James Wong visited the Amherst Primary School Gardening Club as part of the Bedell Little Green Fingers Schools’ Project.
Amherst Primary School gardening club with James Wong (centre) and Mark Helyar (right) (click image to expand - ©Chris George)
Mr Wong visited Guernsey for Floral Guernsey’s Autumn Festival Week, sponsored by Skipton International. Continue reading
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