NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORES IMMIGRATION AND COMMUNITY
A NEW exhibition called ‘People Make Jersey – our stories of immigration’ opened this week Jersey Museum & Art Gallery, when the visitor site reopened to the public for the first time in nearly three months. ‘People Make Jersey’ was originally due to open at the start of the summer season but had to be postponed […]
FISHING INDUSTRY RECEIVES SUPPORT
A SCHEME to help the fishing industry recover from the impact of COVID-19 has been approved. The Fisheries Support Scheme will provide financial assistance in June and July to help the industry continue to pay fixed costs, and prepare for recovery, while the hospitality sector and export market are both closed. The Minister for Economic […]
ISLANDERS INVITED TO TAKE PART IN BAT SURVEY
Islanders will be able to participate in an Island-wide bat survey during July. The Jersey Bat Survey are looking for volunteers to help monitor the bat population using AudioMoth bat detectors. Volunteers from any background and experience are encouraged to join the Wild Volunteer team. This year, due to Covid-19, training will be online. The Jersey […]
GET LEARNING AND BEE FRIENDLY
The Pollinator Project.JE and the Jersey Biodiversity Centre is hosting a range of free virtual pollinator themed activities for all ages this summer. Although the centre is looking forward to meeting school children, community groups and the general public after covid restrictions are lifted, they are making their activities and talks virtual to promote the […]
TIME TO PREPARE FOR BRANCHAGE INSPECTIONS
This year’s first Visites du Branchage will go ahead from 24 June, and land occupiers have been reminded that they are still responsible for adhering to the Branchage Law, even during Covid-19 restrictions. Under the law, the occupiers of land bordering public roads and footpaths must ensure that overhanging vegetation is cut back and cleared […]
A GIFT FOR FATHER’S DAY: LIBERATED BY FORCE 135 – SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE LIMITED EDITION
By MARK LAMERTON writing about the new edition of his book on ‘Operation Nestegg: the planning, re-occupation, re-organisation and rehabilitation of the Channel Islands, September 1943 – August 1945‘ My interest in the Liberation of the Channel Islands began in 1994, when I was living in South Wales and planning to return to Jersey for […]
ON-FARM CAFÉ-RESTAURANT OPENS
Passers-by travelling north on the main ‘Grande Route de St Jean’ road between Mont-à-l’Abbé and Sion, near the Union pub, will have long been aware of ‘The Potato Shack’ – the small farm shop and honesty ‘hedge-veg’ selection of produce, mainly Jersey Royals from Woodlands Farm. This has now been transformed into a larger retail […]
PLANS FOR NEW FARMING MUSEUM AT HAMPTONNE
A NEW museum space, dedicated to the Island’s farming heritage, is being proposed for Hamptonne Country Life Museum in St Lawrence. If approved, the building will be home to old and contemporary farming stories, interpreted and brought to life through the wealth of agricultural objects in Jersey Heritage’s collections, cared for on behalf of Société […]
FROM THE ARCHIVE…. THE PIGS OF TEMPS PASSÉ
Where have all the pigs gone? Over the hills and far away? At least into the different country of temps passé. In the Autumn 2014 issue of RURAL, Marie-Louise Backhurst looked back on pig keeping in the Island THE humble pig was once an ubiquitous part of life for almost everyone in Jersey. Yet by […]
JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT IN AUGUST CANCELLED
It will come as no surprise that given the ongoing situation with Covid-19 the Council of the Jersey Symphony Orchestra announced the cancellation of the JSO summer concert. This would have celebrated both Beethoven’s 250th anniversary and Liberation 75 and would have been held at Fort Regent on Saturday 15 August.