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25 Jul 2010
Lammas Day
Traditionally Lammas Day is a pagan festival to celebrate the first wheat of harvest, the word originated from the Anglo-Saxon hlafmaesse, and then Lammas meaning Loaf Mass.
06 May 2010
Coeliac Awareness Week
The theme for this year’s Coeliac Awareness Week is ‘Free for Tea’ which focuses on the new rules concerning gluten free foods that will come in to force in 2012.
24 Apr 2010
Real Bread Maker Week 2010
The Real Bread Maker Week gets underway at the beginning of May, with a rallying call from the Real Bread Campaign to everyone who owns a bread machine, with encouragement to get baking.
17 Mar 2010
Easter 2010
Today Easter focuses on the Easter Bunny and giving chocolate eggs although Hot Cross Buns start appearing many weeks before the big day. You may ask how we managed to get a bunny ....
10 Mar 2010
Doves Farm Mangalitza Pigs
As many of you will know I have been keeping Mangalitza pigs for a year or two at Doves Farm. I first saw these amazing animals in their home country Hungary while visiting organic farms who supply grain to us.
08 Mar 2010
Mothers Day 14th of March 2010
Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday occurs on the fourth Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday. In 2010 it is celebrated on 14th March, in 2011 it will be 3rs April.
17 Feb 2010
Fairtrade Fortnight 2010
What is Fairtrade and Fairtrade Fortnight? “Fairtrade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development.”
12 Feb 2010
Pancake Day
Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day as it is better known, is the celebration of the start of Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday and is the Christian celebration of Jesus’ temptation by the devil. In 2010 Pancake Day is on February the 16th.
11 Feb 2010
What is Valentines Day
Why on February the 14th do we swap presents, gifts, flowers etc. How did this all start? Have you ever wondered why?
16 Dec 2009
The Folate Debate
Options to increase folate intakes of young women. Should Folic Acid be manditory?
