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Merry Christmas from all at Hen Corner!

| 22nd December 2020

To all our subscribers, course guests, customers and visitors,
We wish you a very
Peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year
From Sara and all at Hen Corner

Merry Christmas from all at Hen Corner! was last modified: December 22nd, 2020 by Sara Ward

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iamthesunking 22nd December 2020 at 10:48 am

Joyeux Noël à tous! Thank you for bringing us lovely food for another year. The radishes have been especially magnificent and are great roasted with Asian spices! ❤️❤️❤️

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Full Day Sourdough

26th May 2018

Pop on your pinny and roll up your sleeves, this special course has been designed to help develop your artisan culinary skills as we get busy with the starters, poolish and bigas creating beautiful sourdough bread, and some traditional bakes, in our London kitchen…

Bees for Children

12th June 2016

Sara, a member of the Ealing & District Bee Keeping Association, the London Bee Keepers Association and the British Bee Keeping Association, invites you to come and meet the honey bees her urban back garden…

Christmas Wreaths (Virtual Course via Zoom)

1st November 2019

Using trimmings from the garden and a selection of ribbons and decorations; this special course has been designed to bring together friends as we make a Christmas Wreath at the beginning of the festive season…

A Day at Hen Corner

12th June 2016

Come and visit Hen Corner and try the life for yourself, be it keeping chickens, making cider, growing your own food or artisan cooking skills we are enjoying life to the full and invite you to come and try your hand to it!

Scones and Jam

12th June 2016

Think Summer, think strawberries, think afternoon tea… Whilst the strawberry jam is bubbling to the perfect set, we will roll up our sleeves to bake hand-made scones together ready for our afternoon tea.

Full Day Bee Keeping

18th April 2016

Sara, a member of the Ealing & District Bee Keeping Association, the London Bee Keepers Association and the British Bee Keeping Association, invites you to join her on her weekly hive inspection in her urban back garden…

Family Feathers & Fun

29th May 2016

An afternoon for the whole family in the garden at Hen Corner… You will be welcomed with home made refreshments and introduced to the joys of keeping chickens!

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So those ‘figs as big as tennis balls’ that we

So those ‘figs as big as tennis balls’ that we showed you 6 weeks ago…
They’ve start to ripen so I picked a few today! Weighing in at 190g each they are absolutely delicious 😋
According to my @ocadozoom app, if they were selling them, they would retail at £3 each!!! And ours are grown organically…
Enough of my showing off, let’s hope the rest ripen nicely 🎾🎾🎾🎾
#gettingfiggywithit

Loving my new bee keepers boots! They bring a lot

Loving my new bee keepers boots!
They bring a lot of joy and make wearing my bee suit in this weather a little more bearable 🐝🐝🐝🥵

I just love a bit of Country Living in the City…

I just love a bit of Country Living in the City…
And not a Mediterranean city - we are here in London…
Now to protect them from the pesky squirrels! #peaches 🍑🍑🍑🍑

To infinity and beyond! Very excited about our bea

To infinity and beyond!
Very excited about our bean bed, with runners reaching high and French around the base…
A staple ingredient in our piccalilli 😋

Let’s choose the hottest day of the year (so far

Let’s choose the hottest day of the year (so far) to shut all the doors & windows whilst we extract the first harvest of this year’s honey 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
We do this to stop the bees finding it in the kitchen and taking it back to the hive!
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It’s simply spun from the frame and double filtered before potting up in jars…

All good on the plot today! To the left we have ou

All good on the plot today!
To the left we have our ‘Three Sisters’ bed with beans climbing up sweet corn whilst squash sprawl around their base. To the right we have spuds!
After inspecting the bees, I dug the first large potato and picked some courgette, peas & mange tout to sauté with garlic & shallot as a perfect lunch. Topped with a couple of fried eggs from the girls at home, of course!
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Check out my garlic 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄and this i

Check out my garlic 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄and this is just the first haul!
Brilliant varieties from @garlic_farm on #isleofwight
Neatly hung up to dry, ready to use throughout the year, and yes @wardybits, I think we’ll get through it all…

🐝🐝🐝Don’t miss her 🐝👑 …. It’s

🐝🐝🐝Don’t miss her 🐝👑 ….
It’s been a rather busy bee week so far!
🐝Monday - Teaching primary school children about bees
🐝Tuesday - Running a Full Day Bee Keeping course
🐝Wednesday - Inspecting 3 colonies, finding and marking this beautiful queen from a swarm I collected 12 days ago
🐝And - Harvesting 12 frames of honey because the bees were running out of space 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯

🐝🌼It’s behind you!!!🌼🐝 Great fun in

🐝🌼It’s behind you!!!🌼🐝
Great fun in school yesterday!
Bees need flowers, flowers need bees…

I always need to check how many chicken pics I’v

I always need to check how many chicken pics I’ve posted recently as I wouldn’t want them to overshadow all the other fun things that we do, but occasionally, I just catch one of the girls in a perfect pose!
This is Baby, she’s a Buff Sussex Bantam ever so sweet…
No, I don’t have names for all 22 of our hens 😂

We are always keen to pass on our skills and espec

We are always keen to pass on our skills and especially love working with children… This week we had a #homeeducation group visit for ‘Where does my food come from?’ And we have another crowd coming for the same session tomorrow!
Thanks to @nellyali for the lovely picture 🥰

The latest addition to our riverside allotment…

The latest addition to our riverside allotment… a stove top espresso maker!
I think a mug of ‘four shots’ will power me to continue today’s weeding 😂☕️☕️☕️☕️

Thank you to the lovely customers of @chiswickchee

Thank you to the lovely customers of @chiswickcheesemarket who sponsored *40 LOAVES* of handmade organic bread to be donated to @hounslow_foodbox
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This is just some of today’s baking that is already being delivered to local families across the borough…
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Thank you!

Full blog post & press release to come, but we cou

Full blog post & press release to come, but we couldn’t wait to tell you:
It was announced at noon today that we have won 🏆GOLD🏆 in this year’s @marmaladeawards #worldmarmaladeawards
*Currently available at @chiswickcheesemarket (until 3pm today) or on our website (for collection)...

73 loaves baked this morning and in the car ready

73 loaves baked this morning and in the car ready for @chiswickcheesemarket Mmm, who doesn’t love the smell of freshly baked bread...

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