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Brownie visit to Hillside Harvest
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Some colourful harvest produce

The Brownies visited Hillside Harvest 27/9/11

Just prior to the Harvest Festival at St Columba, Crosspool, the Brownies visited Hillside Harvest to look round and harvest some produce.  They were shown round by some of our members and were able to find out why we grow our own food rather than just buy it, what different parts of  a plant you can harvest and what it is on our plot that can be made into Brownies (see recipe section for the answer).  They took  a tomato, cucumber and beetroot with great glee!

Rhyming Allotment Verse of their visit to Hillside Harvest

We’re the Brownies, and we’re here to tell,
  About our harvest visit.   Well,  
  Last Tuesday evening, when the weather
  Was sunny and warm, we Brownies, together
  With our Brown Owl (whose name is Janet)
  And Frances the Vicar (who helped us plan it)

Went to see an allotment, where
  Food is grown to eat and share.
    Hillside Harvest is its name.
  Nick from Hillside Harvest came
  And led us all down through the wood,
  Til we came to where the allotment stood.

We were met with welcomes and smiles.
  “Hello Brownies!  We’ve got piles
  Of veg to harvest, salad to pick.
  Will you help us?” We said yes, quick!
    Ripe tomatoes, mange tout peas,
  Nice to try new tastes like these:
  Yellow courgettes, beetroot red
  We dug them from the vegetable bed.

Did you know that marigold flowers
  Can go in salad? They did in ours!
    Lots to look at, taste and touch.
  We think growing food is such
  Good fun that everyone should try it.
  Have home-grown veg in your diet.
  Don’t know how?  Then you should go to
  Hillside Harvest.  They will show you!

The sunset sky was turning red
  We said goodbye.  It was time to head
  Back up through the darkening wood
  To where our patient parents stood.
  Now we know about harvesting,
  Perhaps  we’ll go back in the spring!

Courtesy of Frances Eccleston

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