BETHAN WATKINS – EXHIBITION ON 4 AND 5 JUNE
Artist and poet Bethan Watkins is holding her first Jersey exhibition on 4 and 5 June with Art House Jersey at Grève De Lecq Barracks. She is a longstanding student of the Arts, who, in the last few years has supported Jersey’s local food economy as well as campaigned for Islanders to eat locally. Her […]
THE GENUINE JERSEY – JERSEY ROYAL POTATO GROWING COMPETITION
The annual Genuine Jersey, Jersey Royal potato growing competition, sponsored by Homefields, held its weigh-in held at Grouville Parish Hall, the last in a week-long series of potato weigh-ins. In what has been one of the driest seasons for some time, results were mixed with the first ever bucket recording no potatoes at all! Starting […]
TREE PROTECTION PROPOSALS TAKE ROOT IN NEW COMMUNITY-BASED STRATEGY
A new strategy outlining how Jersey will protect, manage and restore its trees was launched earlier this month with the aim of safeguarding the Island’s trees and woodlands for future generations. In a foreword to the new Jersey Tree Strategy, the Environment Minister, Deputy John Young, highlighted the many benefits that trees can provide, from […]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE HIDDEN ICE AGE LANDSCAPE
A team of archaeologists are in Jersey this week to begin an ambitious survey on foot of a former Ice Age landscape off the southeast coast of the Island. The archaeologists, who are from UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and Archaeology South East, are working on a section of the intertidal […]