🚜 Open Farm Sunday, 7th June 2026
☀️ Come and join in with
a tour of the farm 🚜
and an array of other free activities
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 – time TBC)
🧺🥪 Bring a picnic to enjoy in the social area
🛝 Children’s play area
🐶 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 🍾🍰
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!
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.
