I discovered things I wanted to tell you about, but forgot to.  So there is quite a bit in the next few posts that happened before previous posts. I’m not sure this matters to anyone, but just so you know!!

I picked up a leaflet in our library about Operation Farm, which looked interesting. I was surprised to find it was based in local area. So, I started to follow their blog and thus found out about a Harvest event they were running.

We decided to give it a go, even thought the weather was foul. There was a scarecrow competition, with scare-mermaids, scare-pirates and all sorts.

This won the first prize, but the photo below shows our favourite…

Niblet helped make a bird feeder from small apples (not gone down well with our birds though!!), we marvelled at the apple pressing, Niblet had a go at collecting the juice and we all had a taste.It was lovely, so we made a donation for a bottle.

We tried dried apple and pear slices, tasted jam and honey, bought jam and cakes.

We also went for a look around the community orchard in the park. It is in it’s infancy, but what a great idea. There were lots of lovely mosaics.

As you can tell, the bees were a favourite. I’m always fascinated by them, particularly all the Manchester bees.

All photos taken on my lovely new Windows phone.

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