We held our Harvest Festival today, and the potent Elderflower wine from flowers collected at the Wild Food walk earlier in the year went down very well.
Festivities got underway at 4pm
We were treated to a fabulous complete rainbow as the sun started to go down
Barn-raising ceremony
Chris shows us how to prepare Spaghetti squash, from field to fork in 15 minutes
Spaghetti squash wizard Chris
Kirsty and Tom sampling the elderflower wine
Steve with our Oak Tree neighbours Leslie and Joan
We had a fantastic range of food, so many recipes you can make with courgettes
Kirsty and Tom researching deeper the mysteries of the elderflower wine
Rose and Eric
Our lovely grower Joanne begins to commune with the spirit of the Elderflower
and again...
melding into one...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I don’t think I could name one person who ‘didn’t have enough’ elderflower wine! What a wonderful evening. THANK YOU EVERYONE! Joanne, congratulations on creating a truly glorious community of people. I had a warm glow all evening, even before the wine! Roll on harvest festival 2012!
Great pictures Richard, really capturing the spirit of a lovely convivial evening, topped by the rainbow blessing of more bounty to come. Joanne may have been doing the dispensing but who (or what) was making the camera shake?