The very first Women’s Institute was formed in 1897 in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada as a branch of the Farmer’s Institute it brought women from isolated communities together and offered training in home economics, child care and those aspects of farming that were traditionally done by women, such as poultry keeping and small farm animal […]
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Congratulations to the WI – 100 glorious years of Jam and Jerusalem
Posted in Competitions, Gardening at Home, Home Farming, Recipes, Recycling, Seasonal Celebrations, Wildlife, tagged join the WI, learn how to bake, learn how to make jams, learn how to make preserves, making jams, making preserves, WI campaigns, WI crafts on September 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Make your own delicious Strawberry Jam
Posted in General, Recipes, tagged allotment recipe, baking with children, cooking for children, cooking with children, delicious jam, home made jam, make your own jam, Recipes, recipes for children, recycle works, recycleworks, seasonal recipes, strawberry jam, strawberry jam recipe, strawberry recipe on June 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
To celebrate National Jam Week next week, 18-24 June 2012, why not make some delicious Strawberry Jam. Strawberries are one of the first fruits to come into season but they all seem to ripen at once and do not have a very long ‘shelf life’ once picked, so why not turn your crop into a delicious treat […]
How to Make Redcurrant Jam
Posted in Gardening at Home, Gardening at School, Recipes, tagged allotment recipe, baking with children, cooking for children, cooking with children, gardening in school, gardening with children, grow your own, how to make red currant jam, how to make redcurrant jam, kids gardening, Recipes, recipes for children, recipes for red currants, recipes for redcurrants, recycleworks, red currant recipe, red currants, redcurrant, redcurrant recipe, school gardening, School Projects, vegetarian recipe on July 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
We were at the allotment at the weekend and Jemima, being a lover of all fruits, was going round asking which berries she was allowed to pick. She set about the redcurrant bush and before I knew it she’d filled a tub full of red currants…and along with the red ones there were green ones and […]
Autumn Blackberries Make Gorgeous Jam
Posted in Recipes, tagged allotment recipe, blackberries, blackberry jam, blackberry jam recipe, cooking for children, cooking with children, gardening with children, jam recipe, making blackberry jam on September 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The blackberries seem plentiful and quite early this year, so I thought it was time to dig out the jam jars and put my own little bit of autumn in a jar. This recipe is tried and tested and easy to do. You will get around 3 jars of juicy jam at the end, so […]
The Primrose – a sign of Spring
Posted in Gardening at Home, Gardening at School, School Projects, Seasonal Celebrations, Wildlife, tagged cultivating Primroses, gardening in school, gardening with children, growing Primroses, growing Primroses from seed, growing primroses in the garden, how to grow Primroses, howto grow primroses in the garden, kids gardening, School Projects, when to grow Primroses on February 1, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Although it may seem slow Spring is on its way, in our garden the frogs have been croaking, the buds on the early Clematis are nearly ready to open, the snowdrops are up and the Primroses are in flower. Primroses have to be one of my favourite flowers; they bring back happy childhood memories of […]
Half Term Halloween Fun
Posted in Recipes, School Projects, Seasonal Celebrations, tagged crafty halloween ideas, decorate at halloween, Easy Halloween treats, halloween activities, halloween activities with children, halloween activity, halloween classroom activities, halloween crafts, Halloween fun with children, halloween party ideas, halloween spiders web, halloween spiders web crafts, home-made halloween decorations, how to make mummified sausages, how to make pastry witches fingers, how to make spider lights, how to make twig spiders webs, mummified sausages, pastry witches fingers, School halloween activities, spider lights, twig spiders webs, what to do at halloween on October 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A lot of children will be enjoying half term this week whilst many others will have to wait until next week, I love half term as it usually includes Halloween and Bonfire Night, every year I try out new treats and decorations here are this year’s ideas: Mummified Sausages Ingredients 8 Sausages (long and […]
Make Chutney to enjoy during the Winter months
Posted in Recipes, School Projects, Seasonal Celebrations, tagged allotment recipe, best chutney recipe, easy chutney recipe, easy red tomato chutney recipe, easy tomato chutney recipe, fruit and vegetable chutney, fruit chutney, how to make chutney, lightly spiced chutney recipe, make chutney, Recipes, red tomato chutney recipe, tomato chutney recipe, vegetable chutney, vegetarian recipe on October 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »
This morning there is a faint smell of vinegar in our house, yesterday I made Red Tomato Chutney using the crops that I had grown, Tomatoes (Large fleshy beef variety that contain very little juice or seeds), Onions and Bramley Apples, I made a large batch which produced 13 jars of this wonderful chestnut brown […]
Raspberries – delicious to eat and easy to grow
Posted in Gardening at Home, Gardening at School, Recipes, School Projects, tagged freezing raspberries, growing raspberries, how to grow raspberries, how to plant raspberry canes, raspberry and lemon drizzle cake recipe, raspberry cake recipe, raspberry recipe, when to plant raspberry canes on September 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The Autumn Raspberries are ripening fast in the warm weather and can be picked daily they are delicious with cream or ice cream but freshly picked Raspberries have a limited shelf life of about 3 days in the fridge, if you have a glut make them into delicious jam or freeze them in a single […]
Why not grow an Avocado plant on your windowsill?
Posted in Gardening at Home, Gardening at School, School Projects, tagged growing an Avocado tree, growing exotic fruit, growing fruit trees from a stone, growing plants from pips, growing seeds on a windowsill, growing tropical fruit, how to grow an Avocado plant, how to grow an Avocado tree, plant lemon pips, plant orange pips, planting a stone, planting orange pips on January 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
At Christmas you may have been treated to some delicious exotic fruit to eat such as Avocado, Kiwi, Mango or even Papaya, I think it is fun letting children try new fruits and educational too: Why not find out more about each fruit. Where does it come from? How does it grow? What does the plant/tree […]
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