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  • West Wales Food Festival

    What a day!! Well 2 days really!! Last weekend (May bank holiday) The Pumpkin Patch held cookery workshops at the West Wales Food Festival, at the National Botanic Gardens,Wales.  We basked in the lovely sunshine and warmth of the great glasshouse.  We made Welsh cakes, Funtastic Fritters and Smoothies with almost 100 children and teenagers. Mums, Dads were […]

  • Sweet Sweet Success!!! After months of cold winds, severe frosts and week after week of below zero temperatures and snow, the bees decided to reveal their success story!! Once temperatures reached double figures they began to spring clean the hive and we breathed a sigh of relief! They had made it and winter was officially […]

  • Where have I been? …..Back in 1890! My posts have been few and far between recently… things have got a little busy beyond ‘The Pumpkin patch’. It hasn’t been the garden either! Although we have been busy planting both inside and out. As you can probably see, I’m not in my usual wellies and gardening […]

  • Outside at Last! The long winter months are now over… well not quite but there’s plenty to do in the garden right now. After months of telling myself that it’s too soon to get out there, and too cold by far, I can now justifiably get my wellies on and dig!!! at last!! * * […]

  • Sunshine at Last! Sunshine at last!! It was so great to get out and preparing the raised beds ready for spring. . . ..early I know, but who can resist gardening on such a glorious Saturday morning? William, Louis and Thomas clearing their raised beds and making the most of the great weather! We cleared […]

  • Cookery and Craft at Christmas Christmas seems like a very long time ago now, but I was searching through some Pumpkin Patch photos recently and discovered this one – our Christmas Cookery and Craft workshop. If they look tired it’s because they cooked their own Christmas turkey lunch, went on a country walk to collect […]

  • Happy New Year!! * 2010 * It wasn’t a white Christmas in Carmarthen… though most of it was spent below zero degrees……. But it has been a white New Year!!! Pumpkins in the Snow… Party time!… Anya’s New year cup cakes.. All snowy and white and shimmering! She made them, baked them and decorated them… […]

  • Good luck to the bees!! * * * * * * In May, with the help of our village school teacher, Paul, we set up two bee hives in the garden! Joshua my ten year old singlehandedly built the actual hives, I helped to paint them and Paul delivered the bees! * * * * […]

  • Christmas is coming… Last year’s starry mince tray bake…. At the moment I’m working on this year’s variation of the traditional mince pie, but I don’t think you can beat the star-topped variety for beauty and elegance, and of course taste! Christmas is coming … but will the penguins appear on the kids’ Christmas cup […]