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Hello Friends,
We've been busy planning our events and projects for the year and the ways we can respond to the climate emergency.
In the shop we have been extending our zero waste lines and will develop this more with your suggestions .. read more below!
It is a challenging time for so many reasons and it is even more important that we support landworkers working locally and organically to nourish the soil, the environment and our communities.
The focus, as always, is to help build both individual and community resilience for the future through food based learning and skills.
Hope to see you soon!
Martin, Sara, Jo and Kevin
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Growing Plot
to Cooking Pot
Learn Devon are funding the Growing Plot to Cooking Pot Workshops for adults. Sara and Kevin will be cooking and gardening at the EcoHub to develop the skills for healthy and sustainable living.
Unemployed? On benefits? Recovering from ill health? Then this new project from Harvest Workers Coop could be for YOU!
More details here |
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Family Workshops
Our monthly Family Workshops are great fun and open to all families. They are funded by Learn Devon. We always have cooking, gardening, seasonal stories around a fire, natural crafts and outdoor play.
Come and join us for the Winter Feast! |
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Out on the Land
We are running a monthly program of practical workshops and explorations out on the land at Hilltown Organics with Martin and Sara. Moth id, scything, foraging, pizza oven building and more.
Come and join us for the first workshop Potato Planting The No-Dig System |
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Photography Competition
Capture the seasons in an image - maybe out on the farm, along the hedgerow, down in the garden plot or in the cooking pot! The results will be displayed at our Seed Sawp and also as part of our very own Harvest calendar! More information here
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WEDNESDAY 19th FEBRUARY
GROWING PLOT TO COOKING POT run by Harvest Workers Co-op.
Practical skills workshop for sustainable growing and cooking. FREE funded through Learn Devon.Must be unemployed and on benefits. 1.30-4.30pm @The Eco Hub, Okehampton
SATURDAY 22nd FEBRUARY
WINTER FEAST FAMILY WORKSHOP run by Harvest Workers Co-op.
Spring crafts, fireside cooking, stories, outside play and gardening. FREE funded through Learn Devon. 2-4pm @ The Eco Hub, Okehampton.
WEDNESDAY 26th FEBRUARY
GROWING PLOT TO COOKING POT run by Harvest Workers Co-op.
Practical skills workshop for sustainable growing and cooking. FREE funded through Learn Devon.Must be unemployed and on benefits. 1.30-4.30pm @The Eco Hub, Okehampton
WEDNESDAY 4th MARCH
GROWING PLOT TO COOKING POT run by Harvest Workers Co-op.
Practical skills workshop for sustainable growing and cooking. FREE funded through Learn Devon.Must be unemployed and on benefits. 1.30-4.30pm @The Eco Hub, Okehampton
SUNDAY 22nd MARCH
NO DIG POTATO PLANTING with Sara and Martin from Harvest Workers Co-op.
Help plant the new harvest. Lunch provided. FREE. 11- 4pm @Hilltown Organics, Nr Okehampton.
SATURDAY 25th MARCH
SPRING CELEBRATIONS FAMILY WORKSHOP run by Harvest Workers Co-op.
Spring crafts, fireside cooking, stories, outside play and gardening. FREE funded through Learn Devon. 2-4pm @ The Eco Hub, Okehampton.
FRIDAY 3rd APRIL-12 noon
SPRING STORYTELLING AND PUPPET SHOW with Kevin and Jo from Harvest in Red Lion Yard.
Discover the secrets of Spring from the ground up. Help the plants find their way past many obstacles and changing landscapes with the help of friends both big and small. Audience participation. Suitable for all ages. FREE
SUNDAY 5th APRIL
APPLE GRAFTING and PRUNING WORKSHOP with Martin and Sara from Harvest Workers Co-op.
1-5pm £30 (£15 reduced price) @Hilltown Organics, nr Okehampton.
SATURDAY 18th APRIL
VEGAN BASICS run by Holistic Cooking Academy for Harvest Workers Co-op.
Make non dairy milk, butter and cheese. Egg free sweets and crunchy crackers.1pm-4.30pm £40 or £20 for local community leaders @The Eco Hub, Okehampton.
SATURDAY 25th APRIL
SPRING SHOOTS FAMILY WORKSHOP run by Harvest Workers Co-op.
Seasonal food, fireside cooking, stories, creative activities, outside play and gardening. FREE funded through Learn Devon. 2-4pm @ The Eco Hub, Okehampton.
WEDNESDAY 29th APRIL
GROWING PLOT TO COOKING POT run by Harvest Workers Co-op.
Practical skills workshop for sustainable growing and cooking. FREE funded through Learn Devon.Must be unemployed and on benefits. 1.30-4.30pm @The Eco Hub, Okehampton.
PLUS LOOK OUT FOR ...
FRIDAY 3rd APRIL (tbc)
FILM SCREENING of 2040 A truly uplifting film in these challenging times
SATURDAY 9th MAY
SEED SWAP EVENT Share and sow the seeds for our future plus PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION DISPLAY AND AWARDS
.. more details coming soon
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Here are some seasonal updates from the lovely folk who supply and work with the Harvest Farm Shop.
Henry and Liv from Down Farm have been prepping beds in the sunshine! Their great run up to Spring has begun which means taking out last years crops, weeding and mulching the beds getting ready for 2020 crops. It’s very exciting!
Sam and Katie at Taw River have been fencing on the farm! They have recently erected over 3000 metres of sustainable chestnut stock fencing sourcing the majority of the stakes locally from a traditional chestnut coppice. They have replaced old field boundary fences to safely contain the stock, aiding their rotational grazing techniques and to protect the creation of new habitats as part of their amazing Rowden Wildlife Project.
Emma and the team at The Boatyard Bakery hosted the annual FLOW PROJECT Wassail with activities, story telling and singing before everyone joined the all important walk down river to the fruit trees to wake them up! Wassail to them all!
Martin from Harvest has written Between Seasons and Soil a blog post about the challenges and activities of the season
"Harvesting of winter vegetable crops continues despite the inclement wet weather. Every winter differs from the last. This winter has been a real challenge for farmers and their pickers with the constant wet and windy storms coming off what was a wet soggy autumn for getting their crops off the field and into the packhouses. This poses risks to soil health and the carbon locked up in it..." Read more here
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 Zero Waste Bulk Buying
It is great that people are buying more of our zero waste dry goods. We are now able to order 25kg of some lines such as pumpkin seeds, muesli, quinoa and red lentils.
This means that the price to you is lower. But we need to back up that statement so .....
Pumpkin Seed price comparison
(take a deep breath before reading on!!)
We used MySupermarket.co.uk on 11th February to check Morrisons Tesco Sainbury's, Waitrose, Asda, Poundland and Amazon!
The cheapest deal we could find on non organic pumpkin seeds was £6 / kg from Asda and the average cost was £8.30 / kg.
Organic pumpkin seeds are more expensive. If you are prepared to buy 1kg and order online then the Amazon price is £7.99 / kg The supermarkets are averaging a staggering £20 / kg!!
As we are now buying 25kg sacks we can sell organic pumpkin seeds at £7.80 / kg and you can bring your own bag and buy only 20g if you want! This is cheaper than the organic prices we researched and cheaper than most supermarket non-organic seeds. You will of course have to suffer a friendly shopping environment, the risk of people talking to you and the very real danger that you might be tempted to buy more Good Mood Food!
We do take our price comparisons seriously. Please do get in touch with any useful information!
We would like to expand the range of zero waste goods we sell. So look out for the Grand Grocery Survey coming soon! Sara is working on this to help us decide on what other sacks and bags of organic produce we should be buying.
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Pea Flour Pancakes
Ingredients (serves 4)
For savoury pancakes
- 3 cups green pea flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup oil
- 3 cups diary or plant based oat milk
- Wild garlic leaves. Wash well and rip into small pieces
For sweet pancakes use yellow pea flour, three mashed bananas and a bit of maple syrup.
Directions
- Combine flour and salt
- Add remaining ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Leave for 30 minutes
- Heat oil in pan and then cook pancakes for 2 minutes on each side.
We found cooking 1 ladle of batter to make a smaller pancake worked better than a large one.
Interested? We are cooking pea flour pancakes at the Winter Feast Family Workshop on the 22nd February!
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Thank you for supporting Harvest Workers' Co-op
We are a non-profit workers’ co-operative made up of farmers, educators and storytellers.
We grow and source good organic food for our little farm shop in Okehampton.
We create opportunities for our community to explore all the things food and farming and to
celebrate Good Mood Food!
It would be lovely to see you in the Harvest Farm Shop
Monday - Saturday 9:00 - 5:00 in Red Lion Yard
Do keep an eye out for all our latest happenings on our website, in store, or on social media
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