IT’S said the family who eat together stay together – and this must be even truer for those who grow the food together. Just ask the Sanders family from Wimborne who in just over three months have grown enough vegetables to keep their freezer stocked for months. And that is after all the meals they’ve [...]
Knightshayes is quite possibly home to one of the finest kitchen gardens within the National Trust.
Alfresco Chop & Chat sessions
With an abundance of tasty fruit and veg being farmed from the kitchen garden, the team were keen to teach visitors just how easy it is to cook delicious dishes with what you grow.
As a result [...]
Giant Bee Panel tells the story of the importance of bees in the food system
Gibside Estate (Northumberland) is developing an exceptional profile as a local food hero hub within the local community. Ahead of the project Gibside had become a Farmer’s Market location, in June it the team launched the Gibside Food Cooperative.
Greener Living funding [...]
Like many of the properties participating in the Greener Living project Blickling are offering visitors a wide range of ‘Grow Your Own’ and other food related activities.
Mrs Wadlow’s Cookery School is launched
One part of their project which is proving popular with younger visitors is the launch of Mrs Wadlow’s cookery school. Flo Wadlow was a [...]
The ‘Season’s Eating’s’ giant board game has been created as part of the National Trust’s Green Living project.
We felt it important to teach children (and parents) which fruit and veg is in season for each month of the year. To do this we’ve developed a giant (1m x 1m 20) magnetic board game. The game [...]
Growing community success story
Lytes Cary Manor in Somerset create 40 new allotments at the entrance to the property grounds. Lytes Cary allotments site in Somerset has helped to bring a local community together, reconnected them with the land and given them a sense of involvement and ownership of Lytes Cary Manor, helping to develop this [...]
Attingham’s Eat into Green Living project has been underway since Easter. It’s offering visitors to the property a great variety of food related activities, all of which are aiming to teach the importance of a sustainable food system, provide contacts to providers of delicious local produce and encourage people to have a go a growing [...]
England team “veg-heads” kick off home grown competition
A unique sculpture of the England football team made from onions and other home-grown produce is launching a new competition to help keep families occupied this summer.
Called “veg-heads”, and organised by the National Trust as part of its Food Glorious Food campaign, families are being challenged to create [...]
Sectary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recently visited the National Trust propoerty to learn more about Eat Into Greener Living
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