Out & About Magazine, Chiswick August - September 2020.

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IN PICTURES EXHIBITION

CHISWICK

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AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2020

CHISWICK

flower

MARKET OPENING

Wildlife IN LOCKDOWN

Chiswick in Pictures • What’s on at Watermans• New Chiswick Flower Market Wildlife in Lockdown• Red Kites make a comeback • Gardening at Osterley Chiswick Book Festival • Hen Corner

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INSIDE

Features

Regulars

Chiswick in Pictures 8

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Letter from the Editor

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Hen Corner Sara Ward on making the best of it

Art exhibition

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Watermans What’s on this summer

10-11 Chiswick Flower Market First new plant market in London for 150 years

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DIRECTOR Amanda Rowley info@outaboutmagazine.co.uk Tel: 07967 660772 ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Gerry Devine geraldineholden@icloud.com Tel: 07710 574479 EDITOR Bridget Osborne bridget@thechiswickcalendar.co.uk PUBLISHER out&about Magazines Banstead, Surrey www.outaboutmagazine.co.uk Tel: 07967 660772

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Wildlife in lockdown Amazing what you can find

16-17 Red Kites

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Making a comeback

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at Osterley Park

20-21 Chiswick Book Festival

goes online this year

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Coffee break

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Now available in Morrisons in London All information in this edition was correct at time of publication but may be subject to change.

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EDITOR'S LETTER

Welcome I hope this edition finds you well. Normally the late summer Out & About would be chock full of family days out and things to do. Sadly there won’t be a Chiswick House Dog Show, a Griffin Brewery open day or a Brentford Festival this year.

There will however be a brand-new monthly Flower Market opening in Chiswick on Sunday 6th September – the first new plant market to open in London in 150 years. P10-11 Chiswick in Pictures, the free exhibition of local scenes painted by local artists, will take place as usual at the Clayton Hotel Chiswick, from Monday 31st August to Saturday 7th November. P8 Watermans arts centre reopens on Wednesday 5th August. At time of writing there are no live events scheduled but the cinema, gallery, restaurant and bar will be welcoming visitors again. P9 Tidefest on 6th September has been reduced to a few pre-booked activities such as kayaking, paddleboarding and foreshore walks. See what is available at thamestidefest.net.

Out & About contributors all seem to be glass half full types.

Director of the Chiswick Book Festival Torin Douglas writes that there will be a schedule of book talks,

presented as a programme of online events for people to enjoy at home. P20-21 Myles McCallum writes about how he took advantage of the lockdown and used the spring and early summer to get close to nature in Richmond Park. P15 His grandfather Les McCallum recalls that Red Kites were once a rare site, but reports that, with the watchful diligence of nature lovers, over the years they have become quite common again. P16-17 Many of us have been a lot more focused on home life, of necessity. The gardeners at Osterley Park have some tips for those of us who like to garden. P18-19 I’ve also been talking to farmer friends on Dartmoor who are able to sell their meat in London for the first time, through the supermarket chain Morrisons.

Why buy New Zealand lamb when you can support small family businesses keeping the countryside beautiful in one of the most popular holiday locations in Britain? P25 And Sara Ward at Hen Corner reflects on the new skills she has been forced to learn this year, which she plans to keep up and carry on using. P26.

Best wishes,

Bridget

Editor: Bridget Osborne

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CHISWICK IN PICTURES EXHIBITION

Jill Spearman

Humphrey Bangham

Chiswick

IN PICTURES EXHIBITION Bridget Osborne

Arabella Harcourt-Cooze

Hugh Bredin

It’s good to know that not everything is being cancelled this year. The Chiswick In Pictures art exhibition, organised by The Chiswick Calendar, is being held at the Clayton Hotel Chiswick from Monday 31st August – Saturday 7th November. This will be the fourth show bringing together images inspired by the area, painted by artists who live locally.

Chiswick has a wealth of excellent artists – award winning, sought after by galleries, selected by the Royal Academy for its summer exhibitions – who paint, or create, in a variety of styles. The art on show is mainly representational rather than abstract, the main criteria being that the subject is somewhere in Chiswick or the surrounding area.

Arabella Harcourt-Cooze

Humphrey Bangham

Expect images of Chiswick House and Gardens, the parks and green spaces and of course the river; delicate watercolours by Hugh Bredin, oil paintings by Arabella Harcourt- Cooze, Jill Spearman and Humphrey Bangham and prints by Rachel Busch amongst others.

A piece of original art makes a great Christmas present.

Prices range from £30 to over £3,000. Come and have a drink in the hotel bar and a look around the exhibition and see if anything takes your fancy. The exhibition is hung in the large atrium of the hotel, so you can come in at any time, have a coffee at the bar and wander round at your leisure.

Chiswick in Pictures is on at the Clayton Hotel Chiswick from Monday 31st August - Saturday 7th November. 626 Chiswick High Rd, London W4 5RY. Nearest tube station – Gunnersbury.

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WATERMANS

Watermans

WELCOMES BACK ITS AUDIENCES Watermans is delighted to be welcoming back audiences from Wednesday 5 August. They’ll be screening three films a day, every day, including their usual summer holiday family films for £6, parent and baby screenings and a range of independent films. In order to make sure there is time to clean the building and to allow staff to work in bubbles, they’ll be open for slightly shorter days, from midday-10pm.

They’ve worked hand in hand with a public health specialist to ensure that Watermans is as safe as possible while continuing to give their usual friendly welcome.

The staff will be wearing visors, and will be performing enhanced cleans between cinema screenings. The cinema will be socially distanced and you will need to wear a face covering throughout your visit, apart from when eating and drinking in the bar or restaurant, in line with government guidelines.

There will be plenty of hand sanitiser around the building and they’ll be cleaning all touch surfaces regularly. There’s plenty more information on the website about how you can keep each other safe so please feel free to have a look.

As well as what’s on in the building, they’re running three exciting pilot digital live music events featuring some outstanding DJs, ska, blues and latin artists - including a 40th anniversary party for the legendary Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues club.

The events are free as they think we all need a party, so go along and spread the word!

Watermans can’t wait to welcome you back! Visit watermans.org.uk to find out what’s on

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Come and see us!

Visit: watermans.org.uk Box Office: 020 8232 1010

CHISWICK FLOWER MARKET OPENS

Chiswick

FLOWER MARKET Sunday 6th September sees the opening of the first new flower market in London in 150 years Since the outbreak of the coronavirus people have changed their habits. They think twice about getting on public transport to go into London, preferring to do their shopping locally.

set up many community projects involving plants as a director of the not for profit organisation Abundance London. Bridget is the editor of The Chiswick Calendar and this magazine.

People from all over London, and many tourists have visited East London’s Columbia Rd flower market, but in June a notice went up on their website saying: “If you live in the area, please stop by and support your local businesses. But if you live further away, please consider visiting a market closer to home and helping us to avoid unsafe overcrowding”.

Ollie’s original idea led to a public meeting in the back of a pub in February. The enthusiasm at that meeting gave the fledgling project the impetus to start work on licencing, traffic management, contacting traders and so on, helped immensely by the immediate backing of Steve Curran, Leader of Hounslow Council.

The Columbia Rd of West London Lucky then that residents of Chiswick were already planning to set up a market which they hope will become ‘the Columbia Rd of West London’.

Ollie Saunders, Karen Liebreich and Bridget Osborne are the three directors of the new market. Ollie, a commercial surveyor, loves flowers and would regularly make the trek to Columbia Rd. Karen, an author, has

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Three months of lockdown threw a bit of a spanner in the works, but a dedicated group of volunteers have been working on this all year, and now here we are, with the grand opening on Sunday 6th September at 09.30. The first time a new flower market has been opened in London since Victorian philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts established Columbia Rd market in 1869. (Not counting the wholesale market at Nine Elms, relocated there from Covent Garden in the 1970s.)

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CHISWICK FLOWER MARKET OPENS Something for everyone The stalls have been carefully picked to provide a range of plants, from bulbs and bedding plants to exotic house plants. The traders range from experienced market traders who have operated at Columbia Rd for years and are excited to be expanding westward, to established Chiswick plant sellers and local start-ups, trying out their business model in a local market before investing in a shop.

The hope is that the new market will be a focus for people to come and spend their Sunday in Chiswick.

Buy a couple of plants. Leave them at the Plant Creche for volunteer cyclists to deliver them to your home later, while you enjoy a meal or a pint and wander around Chiswick’s many interesting, independent shops.

The market will be open from 09.30am – 3.00pm at the Old Market Place, outside the police station, opposite Waterstones in Chiswick High Rd. W4 2DW on the first Sunday of every month.

Sunday 6th September Sunday 4th October Sunday 1st November Sunday 6th December Our thanks to artist Liz Butler RWS for this beautiful painting of a Gisella Jacqueline tulip and to Angus Warren for the poster design.

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LONDON WILDLIFE ON LOCKDOWN

LONDON WILDLIFE ON

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Myles McCallum used the early summer to experience wildlife in London as never before During the early summer weeks of lockdown, I found an unlikely safe haven within the fields and woods of Richmond Park. It takes me less than fifteen minutes on my bike to get there and within that short space of time, I’m transported to a completely different world. A low mood is eradicated within seconds of looking around at the landscapes on offer in this ancient park.

I explored new parts of the park I hadn’t been to before and saw all types of birds and creatures, large and small. Having a pair of binoculars by my side was extremely handy.

I watched quite a long grass snake swim across a small pond and into the reeds right in front of my eyes.

I remember feeling a huge rush of adrenaline and thinking to myself, “wow, I really just saw a snake RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!”.

There were no cars allowed through the park, the presence of cyclists BOOMED during lockdown. I was able to search for wildlife in the smaller and more discreet woodlands and the open plains. Near the Kingston Gate, I sat watching a family of kestrels and little owls in the very same place, although I did also see two men feeding the kestrels at the base of the big tree trunk, which might explain why. The kestrels got very close to the people watching which is not recommended but was quite exciting to see.

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in the park: the comma, peacock, small copper and the exquisite common blue butterfly. I’ve seen enormous stag beetles too! This area is a hot spot for this amazing beetle. There are a huge number of swifts and sand martins by the pen ponds which can be seen skimming the water for small insects.

I came across badgers, lots of them in the dark, both in the grassland of the park and on pavements in Twickenham. Foxes were also a common sight when the sun set.

Apart from Richmond Park, I’ve also visited Kempton Park nature reserve with my grandad. There we found a gigantic slow worm which must have been at least 40 cm long, under a piece of corrugated iron. (This was part of a survey and we didn’t touch any of the numbered panels.) We also found a green sandpiper and two little egrets by the pond.

We went to Staines moor as well, where my grandad and I saw quite a few raptors, kestrels, red kites and buzzards all circling above the rough grassland.

A common tern dived repeatedly in the crystal clear water of the river that runs through the moor and house martins, swallows and swifts were darting across the water in large numbers.

I cannot help but feel that the Lockdown had its rewards and has been of great benefit to wildlife this year.

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RED KITES COMEBACK Myles’ grandfather Les has been watching wildlife for decades. Here he writes about the comeback of Red Kites, which he used to see out filming for BBC Television Drawings and photograph by Les McCallum

RED KITES

Comeback Les McCallum It’s hard to believe that Red Kites were almost extinct in this country 50 years ago and, thanks to conservationists, volunteer wardens and the RSPB, this beautiful bird of prey has bounced back. They are a regular sight from my home in Isleworth.

In the early 80s, I joined some friends on a Red Kite protection scheme in central Wales where the few remaining birds were nesting. We arrived at a secret location near Tregaron, set behind woodland, overlooking a spectacular valley.

A long stone cowshed had been crudely adapted to accommodate volunteers. Stacks of fire beaters were bundled into the corners; clothes, camp beds, boxes, bags, and boots littered the room. A volunteer, who had evidently been on a night shift, was trying to sleep amid the bustle of our arrival, so cold that he was still wearing his woollen balaclava.

We took shifts protecting the nesting kites, the first before dawn, as this was the time that egg collectors tried to rob the nests. For us birdwatchers, it was such a treat to get up early and head up the valley to the nest site; we could watch the comings and goings of the kites through powerful tele-scopes, while hidden at the edge of a wood.

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The male bird would defend the territory vigorously if another bird of prey or another kite made an appearance.

Sometimes, RAF jets would scream very low through the valley which would make us jump out of our skins; to our amazement, the kites never even blinked as they sat tight in the nest.

The first Red Kite I had even seen was the year before, while working on Ronnie Barker’s comedy Magnificent Evans, as part of the production crew. I always carried my binoculars under my Barbour jacket when filming in the valleys, and a few days later I saw a Peregrine and a Red Kite, while the lighting cameraman was setting his lights and tracking by a small waterfall.

Whipping out my bins for a better look, Ronnie sidled up to me: “What are you looking at Les?” “A Peregrine and Red Kite.” “Where, where? Let me see”. You have to remember these birds were very rare at the time.

With that, he took my binoculars and had his first view of these wonderful birds. Of course, by now, the cameraman wanted to have a look, followed by the location manager, and very soon a little posse of crew were scanning the valley in excitement at seeing these rare birds for the first time.

I also saw Red Kites while working on the BBC comedy show, The Vicar of Dibley. The script required Dawn

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RED KITES COMEBACK French to step into a puddle which in fact was five foot deep. We had to measure her so that she would fit into a steel container that we would make specially for the scene. The most important measurement was from floor to her top lip, making sure that when she dropped into our water-filled tank she didn’t drown.

The location for filming was near Turville, in Buckinghamshire. A mini digger prepared a hole for our tank to be dropped in. It was then backfilled with earth, filled with water and dressed to look like a puddle. The ‘mud’ on top was actually moulded rubber floating on the (warm) water.

As Dawn did her act of dropping into the puddle, I noticed fifty or more Red Kites congregating in the sky, along with several buzzards, ready to drop into a nearby wood to roost for the night. That would have made a wonderful backdrop but sadly we had to go for another take and by the time we had reset, all the kites had disappeared.

If you ever travel to Henley, just walk up the High Street and enjoy the wonderful sight of these beautiful birds flying low overhead. Who would have believed that they would have made such a remarkable comeback in such a short time?

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Gardener’s NOTES

From Andy Eddy, Head Gardener at Osterley Park NT Now is that moment in the garden which, whilst enjoying summer and all that it holds for us, we start thinking about the winter and this means brassicas. This is the family of plants that contain amongst others kale and cabbage. These stalwarts of the winter menu should be planted now and if you haven’t already sown them yourself they can be easily bought as plug plants online.

We grow many types of winter brassica at Osterley, that is to say cabbages and kale etc. and they are not only used extensively in our café but also perform another role as an ornamental backdrop to the many tender flowering plants we use during the late summer and autumn months.

In the accompanying photo you can see how well this style of gardening can work when you mix flowers and vegetables together – especially useful in a small London garden and also on your allotment. The range of both tasty and ornamental kales and cabbages is enormous and as you can see in the photo we grow many including Kales ‘Cavolero Nero de Toscana’ (Tuscan Kale); ‘Red Russian’; ‘Redbor’ and ‘Winterbor’ along with cabbages ‘Red Drumhead’ and Savoy type ‘Greyhound’.

These are intermingled with many sown (and self-sown) annuals and also tender plants that we put out – after risk

of frost – in June. In the photo you can see a large froth of pale pink flowering Nicotiana mutabilis as a self-sown backdrop to the kales with a startling red Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff ’ as a contrast. To the rear is an enormous purple leaved castor oil plant – Ricinus communis ‘Carmencita’ – with next to it an obelisk covered in Cathedral Bells – Cobaea scandens. Also making an appearance – and popping up – throughout the other plants is swiss chard ‘Rainbow Lights’ – a glorious ornamental veg with glowing ruby, pink or yellow stems and coloured leaves that can be used as a gratinee dish right through the winter. (see second photo).

All of theses vegetables and flowers can be grown easily in your garden or allotment and possibly in large pots if watered and fed enough.

Planting Design and Maintenance Telephone 07594 622547 katepeacock@hotmail.co.uk

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Open Monday to Sunday 10am – 5pm Tickets must be pre-booked for the car park & gardens Play trail is open but with restrictions in place Café is open daily from 10am – 4pm. We have outdoor seating at the rear of the café and takeways are available Canoeing with The Sharks, all weekends throughout August Cycle hire is available from10am – 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday 50 Things to do activities in the formal gardens throughout the summer

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CHISWICK BOOK FESTIVAL

Pat Davies and Jean Argles

Christopher Tugendhat

CHISWICK BOOK

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Torin Douglas, Director of the Chiswick Book Festival, says this year’s festival will happen online Back in March, much of this year’s Chiswick Book Festival was already in place. We’d be celebrating two of Chiswick’s greatest names – Harold Pinter, on the 60th anniversary of The Caretaker, and William Hogarth, as the eight paintings of A Rake’s Progress returned to west London for the first time in 200 years. Many well-known authors were lined up to speak.

COVID-19 seemed to have knocked those plans on the head. But as we prepare to run a smaller Chiswick Book Festival, online only, several of those events will be going ahead in September, through videos, Zoom and podcasts.

The Hogarth exhibition at Ealing’s Pitzhanger Manor, where Sir John Soane first displayed those paintings, couldn’t open in March. It will now open in September and we will still hear from a panel of experts about why Hogarth, Soane and A Rake’s Progress remain so influential in the 21st Century.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre at ArtsEd, where Lady Antonia Fraser and Michael Billington were due to discuss Harold Pinter and his work, won’t be open, but their session will be recorded in St Michael & All Angels Church instead.

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Chiswick’s Pat Davies – awarded the Legion D’Honneure last year – will be filmed talking with her sister Jean Argles about their wartime memoirs: Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War (written under their maiden names, Pat and Jean Owtram). Leaving school at 18 and able to speak German, Pat joined the Wrens and was posted to top-secret listening stations along the British coastline. As a young Petty Officer, secretly intercepting German shipping radio, she supplied Bletchley Park with the Enigma code messages it so desperately needed. Meanwhile, Jean’s quick brain for crossword solving landed her a secretive role as Code & Cipher Officer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. At just 18, she was posted to Cairo, moving on to Italy to support allied agents and aid Partisan efforts against the Nazis.

Elsewhere in the Festival, Christopher Tugendhat will be talking to The Chiswick Calendar about A History of Britain Through Books: 1900-1964 and Polly Toynbee and David Walker on The Lost Decade: 20102020. Other well-known authors are lined up to speak and at time of writing we’ve already had 150 entries for the 10th Young People’s Poetry Competition. So please save the dates: September 10th to 13th 2020, when the online events will go live.

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CHISWICK BOOK FESTIVAL The Festival is a non-profit-making, community event, which has raised around £90,000 over the past ten years for reading charities and for St Michael & All Angels Church, Bedford Park (which hosts and runs the Festival).

Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War book cover

Instead of selling tickets, we’re seeking sponsorship and inviting donations on our website www.chiswickbookfestival.net.

If we make a surplus, it will go to our Festival charities as usual – so feel free to be generous!

OUR CHARITIES ARE: DOORSTEP LIBRARY, which brings the magic of books and reading into children’s homes in deprived parts of London.

INTERACT STROKE SUPPORT, which provides actors to read to stroke patients.

THE FELIX PROJECT, which supplies fruit and vegetables to schools and charities. www.chiswickbookfestival.net

Calendar THE CHISWICK

The Chiswick Calendar is a local website which tells you what’s going on in our area on a day to day basis. Beautiful photographs by local photographers - Page per day listings of what’s on, constantly updated - Interesting videos - Our own events.

Subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a free club card, giving you access to deals and discounts from quality local businesses.

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CHISWICK FESTIVAL

CHISWICK HOUSEFestival A series of exciting, socially-distanced, outdoor events

Chiswick House and Gardens is bringing to you a multitude of events from fitness classes including yoga, pilates and HIIT, to comedy nights featuring celebrity names, plus classical performances, variety shows and inspirational talks. There’s an event to suit every taste.

With this in mind, a small, local team of event organisers got together to try and help raise money so we can all continue to enjoy the grounds as we do today.

Tickets are limited due to social distancing so book yours today.

With audience sizes strictly limited and health & safety at the heart of the events, you can finally look forward to some well-needed entertainment outside of the house, in a safe environment.

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DARTMOOR LAMB

ENJOY VISITING THE COUNTRYSIDE?

Support our farmers

Why I will be seeking out Dartmoor lamb in Morrisons, Bridget Osborne Many more Londoners have been taking holidays at home this year, for obvious reasons. As soon as lockdown was over we headed for the hills, en masse.

Dartmoor is my greenery of choice. I used to love the challenge of climbing up over the boulders on the granite strewn tors and building dams in the moorland streams as a kid, and so did my own kids when they were growing up.

We were lucky enough to come across Greenwell Farm when my 30 year old daughter was a baby; plonking her in her car seat in the middle of a massive farmhouse kitchen table while we enjoyed fresh beef and lamb reared in the fields outside the window.

We went back year after year and became friends with the farmers. Now the next generation have taken over.

Mathew and his brother Neil farm 2,000 acres, the fourth generation of their family to farm sheep and cattle in the National Park. They no longer do B&B; Mathew Cole has taken the farm business in a different direction.

where they roam free and forage naturally. Their diverse diet includes plants such as heather and bilberry.

The meat is ‘farm assured’ which means the farms are all inspected.

Morrisons have been supplying their shops in the south west with lamb from the small family farmers of Dartmoor for the past three years. The good news is that as of August 2020 they will also be supplying their shops in London.

I for one will be seeking out my nearest Morrisons and asking for Dartmoor lamb. Particularly now, when Brexit and Covid-19 have focused the mind on where our food comes from, if we enjoy a few days fresh air and fresh local produce in the countryside, now would be a good time to support our farmers.

“Dartmoor is visited by thousands of people every day.

The grazing of animals delivers the landscape as it is, and has done so for thousands of years” says Matt.

He has been instrumental in setting up the Dartmoor Farmers Association, a cooperative of 90 hill farmers in the Dartmoor National Park. He won an award for innovation at the British Farming Awards last year for negotiating a deal to sell Dartmoor lamb to supermarket chain Morrisons.

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LET’S KEEP ON

learning

says Sara Ward

This year has turned out rather different than we expected hasn’t it?

But rather than focus on the parties, events and holidays that have been cancelled (we did have a rather special year planned for our 10th anniversary), I think that we have learnt a lot over the last few months which makes us all the richer as we move forward.

Lesson one, we’ve been learning to support each other. I have been so encouraged to see our local communities valuing each other in many ways: looking out for vulnerable neighbours, donating to Hounslow Food Box, supporting local businesses and cheering for key workers. We’ve learnt that shelf stackers, delivery drivers and care workers keep the country going and deserve our appreciation. Let’s keep this up.

Lesson two, we’ve been learning new skills, especially online with technology and communication.

Six months ago I would have feared a Skype and dropped a FaceTime call, now, I’m teaching groups of up to 25, from around the world, how to make beautiful bread via Zoom, broadcasting weekly recipe films and mentoring new business owners who I have yet to meet in person.

These new skills have been grabbed by so many of us, and I’m pretty certain that we’ll still be using them in years to come.

jewellery from home with Grace & Flora’s online tutorials, others have been learning from me how to keep the chickens that they panic-bought in March, or discovering the simple joy of creating sourdough bread with local wild yeasts.

Lesson three, we can continue to keep learning from home. Some of us have had more time, some of us have discovered a new resilience, but as we know, there’s always more that we can learn. This new season of innovation is here to stay. Whilst I’ve enjoyed learning how to make silver

This year has brought its challenges, which have been tragic for many, but let us not be afraid to step up with the opportunities that have arisen.

Let’s keep on learning.

Finally, for me personally, the most rewarding lessons that I have learnt this year have been on my new allotment where I’ve been cutting down and digging out 8ft brambles and have nurtured a whole range of fruit and vegetables ready to harvest.

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