THE JERSEY CIDER APPLE QUILT BOOK

Jersey’s rich heritage of growing apples and making cider is being celebrated at the Jersey Museum where a patchwork quilt is on display as part of the ‘Bouan Appétit’ exhibition. Its accompaniment, The Jersey Cider Apple Quilt Book, tells the story of how more than 300 people, aged from between three and 89, united to […]

TIME FOR RICE PADDIES IN JERSEY?!

Jersey has yet to take advantage of this winter’s heavy rainfall to create any rice paddies but Greece, which is better known as a tourist destination, has discovered growing rice improves saline soil and has expanded freshwater habitats. European rice flourishes in extremely wet conditions and mild temperatures and the rice paddies function as artificial […]