Horsley Villages’ Community Kitchen Garden & Allotments
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NEWS

The Grace & Flavour Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) will be held on Saturday 11 May at 12 noon. Please note the amended time! The meeting will be held either in the Potting Shed or on the Patio depending on the weather.

April 2024
UPCOMING EVENTS 2024

Sat 11th May 12 noon
OGM in the Potting Shed
NOTE Change in Time

Sat 6th July 6-8pm
Summer Evening Social

Sat 13th July 9am-1pm
Ripley Farmers’ Market

Sun 4th August 1-4pm
NGS Open Day
(followed by BBQ for members)

Sept/Oct
Apple pressing

Sat 12th Oct 12.30pm
Harvest Festival Celebration followed by Squash Lunch

Thurs 7th November
AGM in WH Village Hall

Sat 7th December 1pm
Winter Warmer Baked Potato Lunch

ALL ABOUT G+F

Grace and Flavour is Horsley Villages' very own community kitchen garden and allotments. We grow and sell vegetables, fruit and flowers. We rely on our team of volunteers who earn discounts based upon the number of hours they decide to work in the garden.

It was created in 2008 from the National Trust’s derelict three-acres’ site comprising a walled garden and orchard at Dene Place, Ripley Lane, in West Horsley, Surrey.

We have also established a collection of apples, pears and soft fruits, rebuilt a derelict greenhouse into a facility known as the Potting Shed, conserved the garden’s boundary walls, cultivated beautiful flower beds for cut flowers and established several wildlife friendly features. We distribute vegetables to local residents in need each summer through a tithe arrangement.

We also maintain 31 allotments which are allocated to local residents to maintain their own plots. The allocation is managed through the East and West Horsley Parish Councils.

Read the latest wildlife update here


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VEG OF THE MONTH

April – the hungry gap begins

RHUBARB


This is the month (+ May) when it becomes challenging to produce vegetables in England. The winter crops are finishing yet this year’s plantings have not started to mature. Leeks should continue through the month. Purple Sprouting Broccoli should be fine at the beginning of April. Some spring greens or cabbages are available. Salads particularly lettuce is available from the polytunnel. Asparagus spears start appearing. However, the crop you can cut for the first time is Rhubarb. This year we have not forced any as the rhubarb is relatively newly planted, next year we will. Of course, one thinks of Rhubarb Crumble or Tarts. Rhubarb is great roasted and added to yoghurt, porridge or rice pudding.

Ravneet Gill has some lovely recipes, a traybake Ravneet Gill’s rhubarb and custard traybake recipe | Food | The Guardian or a recent Saturday Kitchen special rice pudding Saffron rice pudding with roast rhubarb recipe - BBC Food
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