We’ve been munching our way through Real Bread Week, enjoying the delights made on our recent Introduction to Scandinavian Baking course, planning Pizza for supper and looking ahead to the classes that we are running up until Easter.
We were delighted to discover that our Seville Orange Marmalade won another award at the World Marmalade Awards, so good job we’ve got Real Bread to toast for breakfast each morning!
In the garden the daffodils are blooming, the peach tree is in blossom and the bees are flying on foraging trips to bring nectar back to the hive. It won’t be long before we welcome families to join us for Easter at Hen Corner.
Real Bread Week 21st Feb – 1st March is a celebration of flour, water, salt and yeast – keeping it real and making it available to local communities.
Regular readers will remember the MicroBakery that we ran for 10 years, well now it’s time to pass on all my knowledge to a new cohort on our Become a Bread Angel – Start your own Micro Bakery course. We’ve still got a few spaces if you’d like to join us next month (11th & 12th March), get in touch if you are interested!
If an Introduction to Making Bread course is more for you, we’ve got a couple of spaces on Tuesday 17th March and if you fancy learning both bread AND cheese, then check out Introduction to Making Cheese on Wednesday 25th March.
As we welcome spring, we can’t help smiling, as hot cross buns are always popular in our house!
For grown ups, we will be making them, along with our award winning Easter Apricot Couronne and Spring Lemon Butterfly cakes on Introduction to Easter Baking , whilst everyone, young and old, get their fingers in the flour at Easter at Hen Corner on Saturday 4th April.
Our recent Growing the Good Life day was wonderful. The sun shone as we toured the garden, looking at the various growing spaces, fruit trees and bushes.
We potted up the hardwood berry cuttings that had grown over winter and planted potatoes, then went inside to sow seeds for this year’s crops. The next date for this course will be a summer special on Thursday 18th June.
Our chickens start their spring tour next weekend with a visit to The Spring Market at Syon Park Conservatory, we’ll be there 12-3pm on Saturday 7th March, we then take them to a group of Squirrels (the youngest Scouts) later in the month, followed by every day at the Ideal Home Show, Olympia London, 10th – 19th April, more details soon…
Coming up at Hen Corner:
March
Become a Bread Angel – Start your own Micro Bakery Wed 11th & Thurs 12th (TWO DAY COURSE)
Introduction to Making Bread Tuesday 17th
Introduction to Making Cheese Wednesday 25th
Introduction to Easter Baking Tuesday 31st
April
Easter at Hen Corner Saturday 4th
Ideal Home Show Olympia London Friday 10th – Sunday 19th
Introduction to Making Bread Thursday 23rd
May
Full Day Bee Keeping Thursday 7th
Family Feathers & Fun Saturday 9th
Making New Cheeses Wednesday 13th
Full Day Bee Keeping Saturday 23rd
Bees for Children Tuesday 26th
Pasta Together (Families) Friday 29th
Other news:
- I’ve delivered this year’s Great Taste entries to The Guild of Fine Food – Hopefully we’ll win some more awards!
- We had a great time working with multi coloured dough on Pasta Together (Families) at Half Term – next date Friday 29th May
- I spent a fun day at Curzon and Fawood Family Wellbeing Centre making bread dough, mozzarella and the most amazing pizzas!
Jobs for the week:
- Confirm the design of The Edible Garden for the Ideal Home Show
- Pot up some more local honey – good for those with spring hayfever
- Paint the shed to freshen up the garden
Spring is so close, I can smell it!
What are you most looking forward to?
I hope to see you soon,
Sara
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