Parklea Christmas Fair

ICFN was delighted to have a table at the fantastic Parklea Christmas Fair, amongst all the amazing planters, wreaths and other products made by the staff, service users and volunteers from Parklea. To the sounds of the Ukelele band and pipers, we gave away bags with soup ingredients and recipes to make tomato and minestrone soup on the first day (with one report back and photos saying how delicious the soup was!) in addition to some soup makers kindly donated by Parklea. On the second occasion, we baked cakes with ‘surprise’ ingredients for people to guess (beetroot brownies and courgette cake), which prompted conversations about food growing. We asked people to tell us what they thought the benefits of food growing were and we had so many great responses. Lots of interest in the work of ICFN and hopefully some new growers!