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Riverside Playday - a day of grain!!

Published: August 19 2010 in Love Local Food

We had a great time at Exeter City Council's Riverside Playday. Milling freshly harvested wheat, making dough spirals, grilling them over a charcoal stove all watched by chickens and the West Town pigs. The farm had certainly come … Read more

Summer Playdays

Published: August 13 2010 in Visits

Creating Salad dressings for local lettuce! A session at West Town Farm. Rabbit puppets and courgette kebabs! A session at Copplestone Drive. What do people say ...? "I don't like courgettes but that was nice" "They were juicy … Read more

Grassroots Funding for Education

Published: August 02 2010 in Love Local Food

Love Local Food's innovative education project Food, Families and Farms has received project funding from Grassroots. Food, Families and Farms is working with a growing range of Children's Centres and schools in Exeter exploring … Read more

On the van, from the van, 29 July

Published: July 29 2010 in Love Local Food

Hello This week I am looking at tomatoes and plums, black currants and strawberries. I think summer is here!! We also have yellow and green courgettes, runner beans, marrows, basil, french beans, massive bunched beetroot, peppers … Read more

On the van 30th June

Published: June 30 2010 in Love Local Food

Matryn tells us he will be packing the following veg on the van this week; New and old potatoes, new carrots, beans, beetroot, courgettes, cucumber, hispi cabbage( Special – delicious ‘sweethearts’), calibrese, Garlic, … Read more

A Grating Experience!

Published: April 14 2010 in Visits

Cabbage seed planting and red cabbage grating featured in the first of a year long series of monthly sessions at Copplestone Drive Parent and Toddler group. It is amazing how vegetable hating children will eat them up when they … Read more