It's here at last: this year's Lymm Produce Show is on Sunday! Do you remember last year how fabulously funky the orchard looked decked out in the Guerilla knitting? Well here is a picture of it hanging up after I had washed it. There were metres and metres of it. The other picture is of the 3rd Lymm Scouts helping maintain the orchard in July. The cubs and scouts needed a temporary meeting space while their hut was being rebuilt. They offered to help at the orchard in exchange for us hosting them for a couple of meetings. It was a win-win situation! They did a great job cutting the hedge and creating some new habitats for bugs. The craftwork they also did will be on display in the orchard on Sunday. I hope it will be as eye-catching as the knitting was, and it will be a relief not to have to wash it afterwards!
Why not enter?
The show is run by a team of volunteers from the Oughtrington Community Orchard. While there are rules and classes to ensure everything is run fairly, it is a relaxed day which celebrates all that is great about growing or making your own produce. I enjoy marvelling at the monster vegetables which appear in the bigger county shows, but growing a metre long carrot isn't really my thing. Even if you haven't got a garden, there are some categories such as baking which you can have a go at, and some great categories just for children. Click on this link to browse the categories: http://www.oughtrington.co.uk/orchard/produce_show_2014.html
Or just come down and eat cake?
If you don't fancy entering, then pop down between 2-4pm when there will be all sorts going on. There are all the usual favourites such as 'Ask the Expert', but new activities too, such as the Farmstart project selling their locally grown produce.
I hope to see you there...I'll be the one struggling in with a 2 metre tall sunflower!
Lisa Reid
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