STRENGTH OF FLAVOUR
By RURAL’s culinary correspondent, Suzanne Wynn With the arrival of June, we have left “the hungry gap” – or at least, taken one step outside with the arrival of British grown produce. Of course, many won’t have even noticed the gap, blurred as it is by imports and ‘enhanced’ growing methods. Challenging though it is […]
TWO CENTURIES OF JERSEY’S RURAL HISTORY NOW JUST A CLICK AWAY!
The Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society (RJA&HS) has launched a new digital archive, at their AGM on 26May, giving the public online access to nearly 200 years of Jersey’s rural history for the very first time. The archive, available on the Society’s website, contains more than 15,000 historic images and documents, including annual reports, […]
LA POÈT’TIE
As part of RURAL magazine’s remit of encouraging and promoting localism, be it in local produce or local creativity… in short, the local community spirit that sometimes seems to be slipping away from Island life, we shall be including in our regular RURAL POST mailings, poetry, inspired by the Island, from the pen of local […]
HAPPY 80TH ANNIVERSARY, JERSEY YOUNG FARMERS CLUB
THE Jersey Young Farmers Club is 80 years old this year. Perhaps it would be better to say, ’80 years young’ – the club members are having a reunion party to celebrate the anniversary. Save the date: 4 July at the RJA&HS. Tickets for the reunion will be on sale on sale by the end […]
A SUPPER CLUB FOR ENJOYING LOCAL PRODUCE
The Royal St Martin hotel is hosting a supper club… nothing out of the ordinary about that, of course, but in this supper club all the ingredients for the dishes are sourced locally. The idea comes from the hotel’s chef, Rory Purdie. He moved to Jersey three years ago from his native home in rural […]
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA— IN JERSEY
A night at the Opera… but not in Jersey’s Opera House, or in any grand opera house. The Domaine des Vaux Opera Festival will be staged in St Lawrence for the 38th year. Alasdair Crosby met Anne Binney, the originator of the festival The word ‘opera’ brings to mind grand opera houses in capital cities, […]