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• A Spring in our Step

  24th March 2011

  The anticipation of spring arriving is as exciting as spring itself! At The Pumpkin Patch we wait … and wait with itchy green fingers for the arrival of warmer weather, longer days and finally the happy chattering of the resident swallows. It’s so, so tempting to start planting and sowing at the first signs of […]

• When will it be Spring?

  11th February 2011

  It may still be cold outside but the first signs of spring are evident – if you look hard. Even without venturing outside the postman brings the first reminders that Christmas has been and gone and it’s time to think ahead to warmer longer days. The seed catalogues arrive in abundance! Early daffodils and primulas, […]

• 5th January 2011

  Happy New Year from The Pumpkin Patch! Pumpkin Patch workshops start back this week after a lengthy break thanks to the snow and the Christmas holidays! For the first time ever the Christmas cakes will become ‘New Year’ cakes as so many children failed to make the last class of the year and enjoyed the […]

• 9th December 2010

  It’s Cold Outside! Our pumpkins are now under a blanket of snow… winter arrived on Friday morning 25th November at about 10.30am! Rather specific I know, but that’s when the snow started falling and we rapidly slid into a winter wonderland. We’re now two weeks on, and in this little pocket of South Wales there’s […]

• 24th November 2010

  Holly and Christmas Cake! It’s that time of year again… time to get mixing the currents and sultanas, the butter and sugar, the flour and all the other little extras that make Christmas cake so special! One of our Snowmen cakes from last year! I’m not sure whether the children enjoyed eating them or just […]

• 11th November 2010

  Christmas is Coming!! The St Catherine’s Walk summer vegetables and flowers have long gone and it’s time for some Christmas colour! The new shopping center in Carmarthen is keen to repeat the success of the last gardening week we held in May of this year. This week and next a number of local schools will […]

• 22nd October 2010

  I love Toffee Apples! Don’t you just love toffee apples? Toffee and apples! Not just toffee but bright red toffee!! Mmm We had fun making toffee apples at last weeks Pumpkin Patch. We washed the apples to rid them of the wax…( toffee doesn’t like wax very much.. it runs away!)… then we made toffee. […]

• HRH Start Project

  7th October 2010

  The Pumpkin Patch has been out and about a fair bit this summer. It’s been great fun getting involved in a number of different projects. We’ve attended carnivals and fun days, food festivals and more recently the launch of Prince of Wales’ Start project at the national Botanic garden. Start is a UK national initiative […]

• 23rd September 2010

  A Taste of Towi… The Pumpkin Patch doing what it does best at the Taste of Towi Food Festival, Dinefwr Farm, last weekend. We made Berry nice Muffins, using blackberries picked from the hedges around the farm. Aimee helping Bryn Williams during his demonstration. Delicious pan fried Salmon with curried muscles! Mmmm Aimee and myself […]