Mar
31
2010
Please, if you haven’t already, register your objection with Ashford Borough Council over the proposed care home at Withersdane. If these halls of residence are lost from the College estate then it is pretty much game over – but it doesn’t have to be. The College is a fantastic educational resource, which has been recognised by policy WYE3 of the Ashford Borough Council in their draft ‘Tenterden & Rural Sites Development Plan Document”
You can still register your objection online here.
To view the documents from application click here.
And if you want help with what to write, you can read the excellent and thorough response by Wye Parish Council and the Wye Future here.
Thanks to the 81 people who have sent in objections so far!
Mar
30
2010
Easter Saturday at Wye Farmers Market..
Wye Farmers Market will be holding a very special Easter market on Saturday 3rd April with…
lots of Easter gifts such as handmade truffles, locally grown cut flowers and handmade organic soaps
new born lambs from Wye Community Farm
live snails to handle from a local snail farmer!
an Easter bonnet competition for the children (judging will be at 11am please bring your entries to the market manager)
live music and a free bouncy castle
there will also be the usual fantastic selection of stalls selling everything from fresh fruit and vegetables meat and game to bread, cakes, cheese, jams and chutneys. For more information call 07804 652156 . The market is held every first and third Saturday of the month on The Green, Wye from 9am till 12 noon. There is free parking in the village.
Jen Porter
Manager Wye Farmers Market
mobile: 07804 652156
email: jen.porter@wyefarmersmarket.co.uk
web: www.wyefarmersmarket.co.uk
Mar
30
2010
New for Easter, Wye Bakery is making hot cross buns, using a traditional recipe and real ingredients (butter, free – range eggs, organic cane sugar, currants, mixed peel, allspice and cinnamon). Spice buns are an old English tradition, often limited to special occasions. In Elizabethan times bakers were allowed to sell them only at burials, Christmas and Good Friday - and if caught selling them at other times risked having them seized and given to the poor! Another Easter speciality – Simnel cake – will soon be available. Based on a Victorian recipe it’s a yeasted fruit and spice cake baked with a layer of marzipan.
Wye Bakery will be open Good Friday morning from 9am – 1pm . Traditionally people used to go to their local baker and collect their Hot Cross Buns fresh. Now you have the chance to do just this! To place orders phone: 01233 812218
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Mar
29
2010
The Wye Community Farm herd of British White cattle are currently calving, and they recently gave us an eventful night. First Kalamar produced twins, which we found shivering in the straw as the whole event had obviously freaked this first-time mum out so much that she didn’t know she was meant to lick them dry. After plenty of rubbing down with straw and feeding with colostrum from a bottle they began to look a bit livelier, though it was to be several hours before they had the strength to stand. Whilst all this was going on Pentaphone gave birth at midnight, quietly getting on with it and having her calf up and suckling within half an hour.
As the photos show all are now doing well, though the twins do look dirty as they keep going up to the milk bar through the back door and getting a pat on the back from Kalamar. Thanks are due to Mike and Charlie, two experienced stockmen living in Wye who came out to help on the night.
Wye Community Farm will be taking some of their new born lambs to the Wye Farmers Market this Saturday. Prizes will be on offer for ‘guess the weight’ and ‘guess the breed’ competitions.
