THE JERSEY RACE CLUB – RACE DATES 2025

Race Dates 2025Monday 21st April – The Easter Meeting – First race 2:30pmSunday 11th May – The Jersey Guineas – First race 2:30pmSaturday 24th May – The Warwick Vase – First race 6:30pmFriday 13th June – Evening Meeting – First race 6:30pmFriday 27th June – Mid-Summer Evening Meeting – First race 6:30pmFriday 11th July – […]

LÉ NIÈR BEURRE 2024

The annual tradition of Black Butter making at The Elms is taking place from 3 – 5 October 2024. The National Trust for Jersey writes: ‘Last year saw the production of 450 jars created entirely by our wonderful Black Butter ‘army’ of volunteers who peeled, stirred and jarred up. ‘If you have not been involved […]

OUR ISLAND’S STORY

‘An exciting new exhibition sharing key elements of Jersey’s incredible history opens next week at Jersey Museum, Art Gallery & Victorian House. The new exhibition is called La Tèrr’rie d’Jèrri – D’s histouaithes dé not’Îl’, which is in the Island’s traditional language of Jèrriais and translates as ‘Being Jersey – Stories of our Island’. It […]

SCOOP OPEN FARM DAYS 2024

In 2022 The Sustainable Cooperative launched an Open Farm Day programme, inviting over 500 islanders to meet and engage with some of the island’s most exciting organic and regenerative growers.  It is now launching its second round of Open Farm Days. These will include local producers working with animals, alongside market garden smallholders and those […]

MAXIMUM VARIETY – ADDENDUM

Eating seasonally provides all the variety we need in our diet, we just need to widen our horizons and avoid getting stuck in a rut. By Suzanne Wynn Two things happened last week that gave me cause to update my thinking on how we achieve  Maximum Variety in our diet. The first was the launch of Professor […]

RJA&HS SUMMER FLOWER & PRODUCE SHOW AUGUST 2024

TROPHIES & AWARDS AWARD FOR WINNER H.G. SHEPARD MEMORIAL TROPHY Most Meritorious Exhibit at the Summer Show Stephen Le Feuvre Group of Cacti RESERVE OVERALL  WINNER Second Best Exhibit at the Summer Show David Pope Bunch of White Grapes DAHLIA CUP Best Dahlia Exhibit (classes 105 – 129) Tom & Rachelle Robinson Group of Dahlias […]

THE JERSEY HORSE ASSOCIATION

This is a new association, which held an inaugural meeting last week, attended by some 80 Islanders interested in riding and all equine-related matters. Its formation was broadly welcomed by an overwhelming show of hands at the end of the evening. The creation of the Jersey Horse Association (JHA) is inspired by the understanding that […]

A VISIT TO LA HOUGE BIE

By Alasdair Crosby Imagine this: you are in an aeroplane, probably a small one, doing a short journey from one regional airport to another, flying quite low over countryside that still retains to some degree, its typical and traditional local, rural physical features. Plymouth to Bristol might be one route, or maybe Lancaster to Carlisle. […]