Open Farm Sunday, 11th June 2017
Come to an open day on Sunday 11th June at:
Canalside Community Food
Southam Road, Radford Semele CV31 1TY
- Tours start at 11.30am and 2pm – meet one of our growers and look round the fields, polytunnels and orchard
- Find out how our community supported agriculture scheme works and what vegetables and fruits we grow
- Bring a picnic to enjoy in our social area
- Children’s activities and play area
More information about Open Farm Sunday across the country on:
https://farmsunday.org/
Open day and apple pressing at Canalside, Sat 1st Oct ’16
Coming up is our second opportunity of 2016 to look around Canalside and find out more about what we do.
Apple pressing from 11am – bring apples to press and bottles to take juice home in.
Tour at 1.30pm.
Bring a picnic to enjoy in our grassy social area.
Children will love trying their hand at apple pressing or playing on our chunky play equipment and in the willow play tunnels.
Children on an open day tour at Canalside
Apple pressing
Open Farm Sunday at Canalside this Sunday (5th June ’16)
If you’ve never been to Canalside, or if you have but didn’t have the opportunity to look around, or it was a long time ago, why not pop down this Sunday to join one of our tours for Open Farm Sunday.
Come down between 11am and 3pm.
Tours at 11.30am and 1.30pm.
Bring a picnic to enjoy in our grassy social area – the forecast is looking good for this!
Children will love our chunky play equipment and willow play tunnels, with activities to take on the tour and fun farm activity books* and other freebies* to take away.
*limited availability
Children on an open day tour at Canalside
Job opportunity at Canalside – assistant grower
Canalside Community Food, a pioneering CSA based outside Leamington Spa, is looking for a new grower. We are seeking an assistant grower to join our team producing organic vegetables and fruit throughout the year for our community of over 150 members. The successful candidate will work alongside the grower manager, administration team and seasonal staff. We currently have 7 acres of field scale vegetables, 7 large polytunnels for protected cropping and a 2 acre orchard of top and soft fruit. This position is for 30 hours a week year round (equivalent to 7.5 hours per day for 4 days a week – we are also open to a job share if suitable candidates apply) £15,912, with statutory holiday entitlement and auto-enrolment in the company pension scheme if eligible.
Email mail@canalsidecommunityfood.org.uk for more details and full job description, or download from here. Application deadline – noon Friday 13th May 2016. Selection will be based on a half-day working interview, to take place in the month following the application deadline. To start mid-July.
Dates for 2016 events
All the dates for this year’s events are now uploaded.
Find out where you can see us.
See what member events we’re planning this year.
Education visits will restart from 1st April. Discover what opportunities we offer to school groups.
Website restructured and updated
After months of work, the structure and content of this website now fully reflects what we offer – a combined veg and fruit share which contains veg all year round and fruit when in season.
We hope you find the new structure informative and easier to navigate. Please contact us if you find a broken link so that we can fix it!
Summer party tickets now on sale!
You can now buy tickets for our annual summer extravaganza on Saturday 11th July.
* Live music * Dancing * Food * Licensed bar * Children’s play area * Fire circle *
Full details are here
Buy your ticket here (small booking fee applies), or head to Gaia, 7 Regent Place, Leamington
Opportunity to win local food hamper!
If you use our website, can you spare a few minutes to take part in some research that is being carried out by Coventry University? If you complete the survey by Monday 16th June, you can opt to be entered in a prize draw to win a local food hamper – there are 2 up for grabs one worth £50 and the other worth £30.
https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/coventry/socialmedia_canalside/
Veg fermenting workshop – Sat 31st May 2014, 1.30pm onwards
This workshop, run in partnership with Action 21’s Skill Share project and led by Canalside Community Food member Erica Moody, will run from 1.30pm for about 2 hours. Come and spend the afternoon learning how to ferment almost any vegetable that you can think of.
There are limited places, which are available to book on a first come, first served basis – pre-book yours below. The deadline for bookings is noon on Thursday 29th May. You will be contacted after the deadline to confirm your place on the workshop.
You will need to bring your own: sharp knife, chopping board, large bowl for mixing and medium-large jar, ideally with a wide neck for easier filling.
The workshop is free to Canalside Community Food members. Non-members will need to pay a £5 donation to cover the cost of ingredients.
Working in partnership with local providers, Action 21’s Skill Share project provides a low-cost way to gain traditional skills. For more information visit www.action21.co.uk/projects/skill-share/
Please complete this form to book your place.
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