🌸 Spring Celebration, Sat 2nd May 🥳
Our Spring Celebration will be on Saturday 2nd May, midday until late. The Maypole ribbons are ready for the dance! It’s time for Canalsiders to have some Spring fun and welcome new faces to the farm:
🌸 Maypole dancing
🌼 Family Fun
🌸 Canalside bar selling a range of alcoholic and soft drinks – bring cash/card for purchases
🌼 Bring-a-picnic 🧺🥪🧁🍏
Looking forward to seeing you there with a Spring in your step!
🌸🥳 Canalside team 🍾🍰
🌸🧑🏻🌾 Big Spring Work Day
Saturday 18th April 2026, 10am-2pm
It’s our BIG SPRING WORK DAY on Saturday 18th April, our members’ event for all ages.
Come and help get our onion sets (mini onions) in the ground between 10am and 2pm. It’s straightforward work and even little kids can get involved with adult supervision. Work at your own pace, for as long as you feel like, stop for a cuppa or lunch when you need to – all help is very welcome!
From 10am – help plant the onions
11am – grower led farm walk to orient new members on the farm and show any members what’s happening in the fields – finish by the onions for a cuppa and to help plant the onions
Work wrapping up at 2pm
Hot and cold drinks, and biscuits provided.
Home baking to share is very welcome – please list ingredients to help those with dietary needs.
Bring a picnic to eat whenever suits you.
We hope to see you there to get our onion crop into the ground!
If you aren’t yet a Canalside member and you like the sound of this, you can become a social member and come to this and any of our member events – click here to join (£37.50 standard rate/£18.75 concessions until 31st March next year then on 1st April annually).
Vacancy at Canalside for Assistant Grower 2026 season
We are currently recruiting – please see full details on our jobs page.
The deadline for applications is 9am Monday 2nd March 2026, with interviews the following week.
Space for new ‘produce share’ members
🥕🥦🧅 We have spaces for new ‘produce share’ subscribers at Canalside Community Food, a local organic farm just outside Leamington. We reopen for 2026 on Tuesday 6th January. 🍅🧄🍏
🥕 Choose from 3 different sized ‘shares of the harvest’ and collect weekly from the farm or (bagged and delivered) from our Leamington collection point (extra charge applies).
🥦 Buy a 4-week trial of the harvest to see if it suits your household. Go to https://tinyurl.com/trial-share-express-interest to find out more and buy your trial.
🍎 Regular opportunities to get involved with work and social events.
🧄 Not interested in receiving produce but would like to get involved or volunteer? Become a social member instead! https://tinyurl.com/join-canalside-now
❄️🍎 Wassail
Saturday 31st January 2026, from 1pm
Drink “to the bud, the blossom and the fruit tree” at our Wassail on 31st January, 1pm in the orchard.
The superb Songlines Choir are singing, we have wonderful mulled cider and apple juice and we can make Ivy Crowns!
By processing, loudly waking up the trees and by hanging bits of cider soaked toast in the branches we can see off unwanted spirits and ensure peace and abundance for us all in 2026!
“Wassail the silver shilling,
Wassail the silver moon,
Wassail the silver apple,
Drink hail the sign of the Sun!”
Please park in the car park and walk to the orchard. If that won’t be possible for you, please get in touch giving in indication of your needs and we’ll advise.
Farm Volunteer Coordinator (Saturdays)
We have an exciting weekly opportunity for one or two people to cover our Saturday Land Team sessions. See full information here.
🎥 Documentary about Canalside
Please do watch the documentary film about Canalside made by student film-maker Maya Taylor in the summer of this year.
❄️🥳 Winter Festival
Saturday 6th December 2025, 12 noon – 4pm
Join us for our warming, light filled Winter Festival this December 6th from Midday to 4pm. Canalside Community Food welcomes the wider community to the farm all year to enjoy the bounty of every season and this is our free Winter event. Scroll down for more info.
Make jam jar lanterns with the family so we can light up the farm as dusk falls and add sparkle to the colourful performance of Plum Jerkum our fantastic local Border Morris Side!
We will have delicious hot food for sale: baked potatoes, samosas and cakes of course! Our bar will be serving mulled cider and apple juice (made with apples from the Canalside orchard) to keep everyone warm as we gather by the bonfire.
Updated on 4th December: Hop onto our shuttle taxi for a free ride to and from the Festival, running from Leamington Spa Train Station and stopping at Southam Rd-Church Lane, Radford Semele Community Hall and Bloxham Way. Leaving Leamington station 11.30am, Midday, 12.30pm. This is now an 8-seater taxi rather than the minibus originally arranged.
Pull on your warmest Winter boots and jumpers and join us for this, foot tapping, bright and colourful, family Festival on the farm!
❄️🧑🏻🌾 Big Winter Work Day
Saturday 22nd November, 10am-4pm
It’s our BIG WINTER WORK DAY on Saturday 22nd November, our all day members’ event for all ages.
10am start– Drinks and snacks available all day – hearty lunch provided at 1pm – We expect to work until 4/5pm but please work with us as suits you into the afternoon.
Lena and Nikki will be leading us with a variety of interesting tasks on the land: removing bean-canes, cutting back willow hedges, moving squash and hefting covers! (Pictures from previous Novembers.)
You can work at your own pace and switch to different jobs as you wish. All help is welcome.
Our Social Team Volunteers will be cooking a delicious soup with our organic vegetables for lunch. In addition, our talented bakers, Carmen and Xandra have plans that include home baked bread and hot puddings! That should keep us all going across the day if we don’t start napping by the fire!
In the afternoon we can begin to get the wood piles ready for Winter socials and festivities. The WINTER FESTIVAL is on the 6th December and we have a generous bonfire to prepare.
We need to process, gather and move wood before we decide for sure where to site the fire, which will be a fun project for everyone to work on together.
If you aren’t yet a Canalside member and you like the sound of this, you can become a social member and come to this and any of our member events – click here to join (£36 standard rate/£18 concessions until 31st March next year then on 1st April annually).
Workshop Sundays: 🍞 ‘Sourdough Baking’
A 2 hour workshop with Erica Moody on Sunday 9th November
Offering two sessions: Morning 10am – 12 and Afternoon 1pm – 3pm
Learn a new recipe and processes, with sourdough rolls to bake and taste, whilst also supporting Canalside. This workshop will be a mixture of hands on mixing dough, watching some of the processes and talking about your starter and how to look after it.
Take home dough, to rise and bake at home, your own starter and a recipe!
Limited spaces, booking required.
£20 per person – 6 places am. 6 places pm.
Book and pay to attend through this link or scan the QR code in the flier below.
