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Events 2010Sunday 25th April:
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Sunday 20th June:
CONGLETON FOOD FESTIVAL
We’ll be in the Community Gardens - the Sustainability Group will be there in force, selling the last of the Congleton Apple Juice and new season’s Jams and Chutneys. There will be stalls for you to sell your abundant produce too!
Eco-Schools stalls, Master Composting stalls, music, cookery demonstrations and advice all for free!
Sunday 8th August:
CONGLETON GARDEN FESTIVAL
This is too good to miss! We will be in our own marquee with more produce for sale – apple juice (if there’s any of the 2009 vintage left!), jams, relishes and chutneys. We will have stalls for you to sell your abundance plus the Master Composting and cooking demonstrations.
Sunday 5th September:
ABUNDANCE CAR BOOT SALE at Hillary Ave Allotments on Bromley Farm
Between 2pm and 4pm, this first venture of its kind locally this is the first of four on successive weekends! A car boot sale for your produce! You bring all your spare fruit and vegetables and sell it to the public. Come along and buy or sell just as you please. If you wish all leftovers we’ll take off you to make into Congleton Chutneys and Jams. Remember to bring your apples!
Sunday 12TH September:
ABUNDANCE CAR BOOT SALE at Astbury Mere Visitor Centre
Between 2pm and 4pm, same idea as the Hillary Ave. Allotments event but at the other end of Town! A car boot sale for your produce! You bring all your spare fruit and vegetables and sell it to the public. You can come along and buy and sell just as you please. If you wish all leftovers we’ll take off you to make into Congleton Chutneys and Jams.
Remember your apples too!
Sunday 19th September:
ABUNDANCE CAR BOOT SALE at Hillary Ave Allotments on Bromley Farm
Between 2pm and 4pm, the third of our four car boot sales, same as before! Remember to bring your apples and produce for making into Congleton Jams, Chutneys and Relishes.
Sunday 26th September:
SEED SWAP & ABUNDANCE CAR BOOT SALE at Astbury Mere Visitor Centre
Between 2pm and 4pm, this year’s seed swap and the final abundance car boot sale of the year. How much will you have grown and sold? How much Apple Juice and Congleton produce will we make this year! Patti will be demonstrating composting too.
Friday 26th November:
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FESTIVAL
The will be the first time that the 2010 vintage Congleton Apple Juice will be for sale! How will this year’s compare with 2009’s?
Cheers, Merry Christmas!
Congleton Jams, Chutneys and Relishes will be on sale too just in time for those special, unusual Christmas presents.
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Congleton Apple Juice
Our first abundance venture in 2009: although we started very late in the season we collected 450lbs of apples from you and used Eddisbury Fruit Farm to produce 106 bottles of apple juice which was pronounced very pleasant by all those that tasted it!
For the 2010 vintage we will be starting earlier in the year and dependant on the apple season, we hope to bottle much more juice.
Bring your apples to either Hillary Ave Allotments (call Glen Wiiliams first) at Bromley Farm or Astbury Mere Visitor Centre, leave at the designated spot and we’ll give you a bottle of apple juice free!
If you have apples and need help picking them, then call us and we’ll get you help!
Congleton Jams, Chutneys and Relishes
This year we want to produce a range of locally made jams, chutneys and relishes using locally grown produce to supplement the apple juice.
We have engaged ‘Purple Laura’ a local producer and are experimenting with different recipes. Please let us know if you have any suggestions!
The first range to be produced will be based on Rhubarb, so if you have any spare then bring it to either Hillary Ave Allotments at Bromley Farm (call Glen Williams first) or Astbury Mere Visitor Centre,
leave it at the designated spot and we’ll give you a free jar of jam or chutney!
We’ll receive any abundant produce that you have throughout the year, either at one of the events or deliver it to one of the collection points (but remember to call Glen Williams before leaving it at Hillary Ave Allotments Bromley Farm)!
Abundance Car Boot Sales
Hopefully the title says it all, but like any other car boot sale you can bring whatever produce you’ve grown, select one of the FREE pitches and then sell! If you have any leftovers we will be happy to take them off you and make them into jams, relishes or chutneys!
Wild Produce Forages
Additionally in the morning before the Abundance Car Boot Sale on Sunday 19th September at Bromley Farm Allotments and the 26th September at Astbury Mere Visitor Centre Wild Food Foraging guide Carolyn (Cal) Sherratt will take a group into the surrounding countryside and see what there is to harvest, either for you to eat, sell or let us make into jams, relishes or chutneys.
Her forages will start at 11am and last a couple of hours, starting where the abundance sale takes place later in the day.