❄️🍎 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!”
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.
✨ FINAL 2 WEEKS ✨ Special offer trial share – 8 weeks for the price of 6
🥦 Get your trial share of produce now to start immediately or during October. Conditions apply. For full details, prices and collection days, click here. Available to buy until 11am on Monday 20th October.
🥔 The share contains organic veg, and fruit when in season, using produce grown on our small community farm near Leamington Spa.
🥕 Choose from 3 different sized ‘shares of the harvest’ and collect weekly from the farm.
🍎 Regular opportunities to get involved with work and social events.
🧄 Not interested in receiving produce but would like to get involved or volunteer? Click here to become a social member instead!
(Our normal 4-week trial share of the harvest is available here.)
Workshop Sundays: 🍯🫙🍎 ‘Viking Mead and Fire Cider Vinegar’
A day workshop by Nic Bingley and Craig Barnes
Sunday October 19th 11am -4pm
Prepare for winter by crafting some Viking Foraged Mead and Fire Cider Vinegar to support the body and soul through the dark winter months, whilst also supporting Canalside.
🍛 Warming lunch included.
🫙 Take home your own jar of mead to ferment with a brew stick along with your jar of fire cider vinegar to infuse, ready for winter!
🥾 We will be foraging ingredients from Canalside’s hedgerows so come prepared for the day’s weather.
Limited spaces, booking required.
£50 per person – 12 places only. See flier below.
Book and pay to attend through this link or scan the QR code in the flier below.
🌿 Ecofest stall this Saturday
Come down to Leamington Spa’s Ecofest in the Pump Room Gardens this Saturday (30th August), 10am-5pm – visit stalls from an array of local, environmentally-minded organisations and find our stall to:
– chat to members about the scheme at Canalside
– see what’s in the share of the harvest this week
– talk to The Willows Project to find out about their work
Special offer trial share – 8 weeks for the price of 6
🥦 Get your trial share of produce now to start immediately (limited availability) or during July. Conditions apply. For full details, prices and collection days, click here. The share contains organic veg and fruit when in season, using produce grown on our small community farm near Leamington Spa.
🥕 Choose from 3 different sized ‘shares of the harvest’ and collect weekly from the farm.
🍎 Regular opportunities to get involved with work and social events.
🧄 Not interested in receiving produce but would like to get involved or volunteer? Click here to become a social member instead!
(Our normal 4-week trial share of the harvest is available here.)