Home Grown and Blooming Local - 4 to 6 October

From the Friday 4 to Sunday 6 of October St Wulfram's will be hosting its first Home Grown & Blooming Local festival. Celebrating flowers and produce grown at home and the local area.

The UK floral industry is a 1.4 billion pound industry, and approximately 86% of the cut flowers are imported from outside of the British isles.

Almost one-third of the global carbon footprint comes from the global food network. Food miles, account for around 19% of those emissions.

Eating food and enjoying flowers that have been grown close to our homes can therefore make us more climate-friendly.

Local groups will be showcasing displays of flowers and foliage, vegetables and fruit grown within a 10 to 15mile radius of Grantham. Demonstrating the beauty of what can be grown in our area.

On Friday and Saturday 10:00am to 12:00noon you are invited to bring in your own home grown flowers and foliage, and help us decorate the Church ready for our Harvest Festival on Sunday.

We will also be hosting a produce competition of Vegetables, Fruit and Jams. If you would like to enter something into the produce festival, please follow the link below.

Equally for the younger members of the family we have a Mini-Cress garden competition for Key Stage 2 children.

The festival is open on Friday and Saturday 10:00am to 4:00pm and Sunday 12:30pm to 4:00pm. There will be a prize-giving ceremony on Sunday at 3:00pm. Our coffee shop will be open for refreshments and cakes. Entry to the festival is free.

We hope to highlight more details on the environmental impact of food and flower miles, and will be asking all our competitors if they would like to donate their produce to groups in Grantham that help combat food poverty.

We hope you can support the festival and look forward to seeing you.

If you would like to take part, please click here to take you to the entry form.

For younger growers in school years 3 to 6 there is a miniature cress garden competition taking place. Please click here for the entry form.