FURTHER PROTECTION FOR MARINE LIFE FROM UNSUSTAINABLE FISHING
The Environment Minister, Deputy John Young, has agreed to extend the Sea Fisheries Order to extend bag limits for recreational fishermen to a wider number of species, to protect them from potential overexploitation. The Marine Resources team reviewed recreational fishing in Jersey and identified the highly targeted species and ones which may become more […]
THE PRINCE, THE LAND ARMY – AND JERSEY
Comment from ALASDAIR CROSBY THE Prince of Wales has always something interesting to say, whether one agrees with him or otherwise. I have always found his comments on various aspects of our national life sensible and very often, thought-provoking and inspirational. Last month he wrote a piece for a country life magazine – one that […]
Virtual potatoes at the ready!
Closed classrooms and working from home did little to dampen spirits at the annual weigh-in for the Genuine Jersey, Jersey Royal Potato Growing Competition. Constables, the Women’s Institute, Government Health and Community Services and schools all attended the Island’s first ever virtual potato weigh-in to see just who tipped the scales in the right direction! […]
FLOWER AND GARDEN EVENTS AT THE RJA&HS
Early Summer Flower Virtual Online Show Following the cancellation of the society’s Summer Country Fair, which included the Early Summer Flower Show, it has been decided to hold a ‘virtual on-line show’ next month so that members and non-members are able to showcase what they have been growing. Details of how to enter are available […]
Vintage Farms Online Baking Competition
Vintage Farms/Le Tacheron has launched Jersey’s first on-line baking competition called ‘Knead to Stay at Home’. Anyone wanting to get involved and to get their families baking over the next few weeks, should send a photo of their top creations to vintagefarm@outlook.com where these will be judged with prizes for the most creative and best traditional loaf […]
UPDATE ON THE HEDGE FUND
But arboreal, not financial – Donna Le Marrec of the National Trust for Jersey explains why they are ‘tying a yellow ribbon round that old oak tree’ FOLLOWING the planting of 20,000 hedging whips late last year, the National Trust for Jersey is working hard to ensure their survival through active management as well as […]
NEW PATHS, NEW INSPIRATION, NEW LIFE
SALLY ROBERTS works in the herb garden at Samarès Manor. In the first of a series of articles, she writes about the garden and about the herbs that provide her with both her work and her specialist interest THE herbs at Samarès happily share the walled garden with the beautiful collection of roses and […]
Les Trois Moutons
THIS springtime might be called a ‘silent spring’ – with apologies to the late Rachel Carson – in Jersey, as elsewhere, as at the time of writing we take the very first tentative and uncertain steps towards coming out of ‘lockdown’. But spring is happening nonetheless and so we show a springtime painting of sheep […]
RAISING THE GAME
RURAL magazine’s gardening correspondent, Gill Maccabe, ‘gardens for victory’ during lockdown AS others have sewn scrubs and face masks for victory, our household has gone into full time salad production. Forget the moniker Gill Maccabe keen amateur gardener, I’m feeling pretty professional now. As soon as it became obvious that my almost daily trip to […]
IN THE KITCHEN
Our cookery writer, Zoë Garner , suggests a summertime menu What’s in season? STRAWBERRIES are a typical summer treat and when in season the taste is really hard to beat. They do not ripen after picking and so the imported strawberries are often hard with an undeveloped flavour. Look for berries that are bright red […]