Page 44 - ALG Issue 4 2018

North West
Green Fayre
This year the West Lancs annual Green Fayre was held on the hottest July weekend that Lancashire has experienced for many years. The all-day sun and cloudless sky brought the people out in droves with an estimated 16,000 plus visitors over the two days. More than a few of these visited the WLAF stand in the Crafts marquee keeping us on our toes throughout the two days.
Thanks to our members, we had an abundance of produce on display this year. Our theme was to show not only what
can be grown on your allotment but also how to use them when you get home.
Each vegetable
was displayed accompanied by a recipe. These became a major topic amongst the visitors, who
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Cllr Gaynar Owen, West Lancs Deputy Mayor
Grown-ups matching seeds
Steve Lowe with Son, BBC Radio Lancashire
Myra talking again
Knights jousting
General view of Fayre ground
Marrows with recipe
JD and Cecelia talking seed
came up with lots
of variations and suggestions. The most favoured recipes were the tomato and the parsnip soups, with one young lad, an aspiring chef, collecting them all.
On another section of our stand we had set up a game for our younger visitors: ‘What seed am I?’ a match the seed to the vegetable game. This proved a great
success, even more so with the grown-ups, some of whom found it difficult to separate the onions from the carrots!
Outside the marquee there were the usual attractions; market stalls, climbing wall, swings and roundabouts etc. And when you weren’t in a long queue for a burger or a beer there were the demonstrations to see. In the woodland there are people making
all manner of things out of wood from pots and spoons and hats to full size sculptures of animals like owls, foxes and deer. In the arena, there was the Dog Show, the Viking wars, and new this year, medieval knights in shining armour.
Many thanks to Steve Lowe from BBC Radio Lancashire, who took time out to judge our Best Plot competition, and to this year’s show team: John, Daniel, Cecelia, Susan, Myra & Steve.
Ray Fowler
West Lancashire Allotments Federation