BATS AFTER DARK: THE GREAT GARDEN BAT WATCH RETURNS FOR 2025
A community wildlife event invites Islanders to help monitor Jersey’s bats from gardens, balconies and beaches, 6–8 June. The Jersey Bat Group, in partnership with the Jersey Biodiversity Centre, is delighted to announce the return of the Great Garden Bat Watch, taking place across the island from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th June 2025. Now in its fourth year, […]
Patronal Festival Choral Evensong at St Martin’s
Cantabile will be singing a musically varied Choral Evensong for Pentecost. The choir is looking forward to leading a Patronal Festival Choral Evensong on Sunday 6 July at 6pm in St. Martin’s Parish Church, where it enjoys enjoys the privilege of rehearsing each week. This Patronal service celebrates the second annual feast day of St. […]
FARMING IN JERSEY DURING THE OCCUPATION
The book, ‘The German Occupation of Jersey: Agriculture and Survival in a Time of War’ is by retired Jersey schoolmaster, Andrew Gilson. It is a very detailed account of how agriculture survived the Occupation, which, at this 80th anniversary of the Liberation, is appropriate to consider. On 28 June 1940, the German Luftwaffe bombed Jersey— […]
FOOD WITH A SENSE OF PLACE
Our guest writer, Suzanne Wynn, writes on how mass production deprives us of food that has a real sense of place and how we can fight back. When I used to have the job of recommending UK foods for Slow Food’s Ark of Taste, one of the critical criteria was that the food was associated […]