Summer party tickets are live!
The annual Canalside Summer Party is fast approaching, and we’d love you to join us on Friday 4th July from 6pm until late for a fun-filled evening of food, music, dancing and community spirit.
What’s Happening?
Bar open from 6:00pm
Open Mic from 6:30pm
Hot food available from The Kitchen at Brixton Yoga from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Ceilidh dancing with Mouse and Trousers from 7:30pm
Bar food available from 8:30pm
Tickets can be purchased online here and will also be available at the entrance on the night. Payment can be made by cash or card.
Thanks to Leasowe Farm, camping is available on Saturday night in a nearby field. Spaces are limited, so please purchase a ticket that includes camping if you would like to reserve a spot.
So mark the date in your diary, dust off your dancing shoes, and join us for a fantastic summer celebration.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Canalside Team
🚜 Open Farm Sunday, 7th June 2026
☀️ Come and join in with
a tour of the farm 🚜
and an array of other free activities
NB: due to Leamington Half Marathon, access to the farm will be via the Fosseway until the road reopens after the marathon (starts at 8am, so maybe as early as 12noon).
On Sunday 7th June, we will hold our open day as part of the national event ‘Open Farm Sunday’, when the farm will be open from 9am until 3pm. It’s an ideal opportunity to be taken round our fields and find out what’s growing on the farm at the moment and learn about how our scheme works. As well as the farm tour, there’s also a Leasowe Farm rewilding tour. The day will offer a range of other free activities immersing in nature: a ‘moth breakfast’ studying moths caught in overnight traps with Holly and Catherine, a foraging walk with members Craig (forager) and Nic (herbalist in training), a ‘bioblitz’ with member Pam and Catherine, and a fermentation demonstration with Erica.
Sunday 7th June, 9am – 3pm
Farm tour, free activities, bring-a-picnic, refreshments
🚜 Tour of the farm – look round the fields and polytunnels with a Canalside grower, 12.30 for about an hour
🥕🍐 Find out how our community supported agriculture scheme works and what vegetables and fruits we grow from members and at our information stall
🦋🍞 Moth breakfast – early-morning recording and releasing moths from overnight traps, 9-10.30am
🌿🌸 Join a foraging walk – 10.30am
🔪🫙 Fermentation demonstration – 11.30am
🫙🌿 Vinegar flavoured with wild plants – drop in from 11.30am
🌳🦡 Leasowe Farm rewilding tour for about an hour – 2pm
🌼🐞 Bioblitz – nature recording of plants and animals on the farm, throughout the day
🪴🫖 Plants and refreshments to buy (including pizzas from The Willows pizza oven – from 12 noon until ingredients run out)
🧺🥪 Bring a picnic to enjoy in the social area
🛝 Children’s play area
✏️ Children’s activity booklets
🐶 Dogs at events:
We are happy to welcome people with their well-behaved dog(s) on a lead when they come into the social area for Canalside events. However, please do consider how well your dog copes with crowds, other dogs and hot weather, and whether this event will allow them to remain calm. Thanks so much – this means everyone can feel relaxed and enjoy the event/space.
We hope to see you there.
With bright summer wishes, the Canalside Team
🌸 Spring Celebration, Sat 2nd May 🥳
Our Spring Celebration will be on Saturday 2nd May, midday until 5pm. 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:
🌼 Forage and Herbal Harvest 2pm
🌸 Maypole dancing from 3pm
🌼 Family Fun
🌸 Canalside bar selling a range of alcoholic and soft drinks – bring cash/card for purchases
🌼 Hot drinks to buy
🌸 Food stall: cakes, samosas, onion bhajis
🌼 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!
