Hen CORNER

As the days start to get lighter, we can look forward to more sunshine and new opportunities. I didn’t get much time at the allotment last year, so number one on my list is to put in some time there. I want to make sure we grow all the vegetables needed for several big batches of our award-winning Garden Piccalilli. Our little town of Brentford is continuing to be developed with more and more homes and we hope these will soon be occupied by new residents keen to join in with local groups and the wider community. To help with this, and to encourage us all to live a little more sustainably, we are delighted to see the growing popularity of the Brentford Clothes Repair Cafe (find them on Facebook) and the new opportunities to get involved with growing food at the Eco Garden at St Paul’s Church.

If you’d rather be in a kitchen than the garden, we have loads of great courses coming up offering skills in baking and artisan food production - bagels, sausages, English muffins, cheese, traditional Italian pasta - we invite you to try your hand at something new.

Have you got a young Bake-Off fan at home? If so, in half term, we are bringing back our popular Baking Together course especially for children and their grown-ups, baking bread, tarts and cupcakes. So whether you want to pull on your wellies or pop on an apron, there are many opportunities to roll your sleeves up and try something new!

Regular readers will remember we hatched some chicks for Easter last year. They were a big hit with local families and have grown up to be real beauties. One of them had beautiful platinum white feathers and on the Jubilee weekend we decided to name her Lillibet. This year we are looking forward to welcoming families again for Easter at Hen Corner where, after making hot cross buns and Easter crafts, we can hug Lillibet, her sisters and the other chickens here at Hen Corner.

UPCOMING COURSES:

Baking Together

15th February

Baker’s Dozen

21st February

Sausages Making

28th February

Cheese Making 8th March

Pasta Making 14th March

Easter Baking 29th March

Easter at Hen Corner

8th April