| Everyone is invited
to the first Community Harvest of and Pick Your Own day at BioRegional’s
Lavender project on Sunday 23rd July 2000, from 11am to 4pm, an
event sponsored by Yardley of London. Inspired by traditional harvesting
celebrations in Provence, help with the annual harvest will be appreciated
- and people can pick their own lavender, and buy it by the bunch,
fresh from the field.
In the early 1900s, Yardley’s
name was built on the lavender crop of the Mitcham and Carshalton
area. Now they are returning to their roots – and sponsoring
the second harvest of BioRegional’s Lavender project, at Stanley
Park Allotments, off Oaks Way, Carshalton Beeches.
Brendan Maye, Yardley’s
Marketing Director, said:
“Yardley has a long connection to the Carshalton area. Sponsoring
the Community Harvest coincides with the launch of Yardley’s
new Inspiration range of Lavender products.”
Local lavender bunches will be
on sale in local outlets, including Sutton Library, Merton Abbey
Mills and local florists.
The Lavender project has its roots
in a long-term collaboration with local prison HMP Downview. Cuttings
of the traditional varieties of the area – once the Lavender
capital of the world – were collected from the public and
grown in an ambitious horticulture project within HMP Downview,
providing prisoners with useful skills. Once ready for planting
– after two or three years – prisoners on day-release
helped BioRegional staff clear and plant up disused allotments.
This season is the second harvest of the project.
BioRegional are very grateful
indeed to the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust whose support enabled
the project to develop over the last three years.
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