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Squashes and Quinces

Such great colours at this time of year! Bright orange Red Kuri Squash will be coming down to the stalls this week from Chingford, and a local garden is bringing some big ugly yellow quinces. Make this be the year …

Interesting times

When talking of his formative years, through the Second World War, my grandfather – the one-time tomato farmer – likes to quote Dickens: “they were the best of times, and the worst of times”. The Chinese proverb throws yin-yang light …

Open Day and Swap

Celebrate our local harvests with a Good Food Swap on Sunday 25th September part of the monthly open day at our growing site Hawkwood Community Plant Nursery, 115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford E4 7UH. Directions here Grown it? Baked it? Picked …

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