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Chenin Manc.....Prestwich Plonk!
Becca here with a blog I have been meaning to write for ages! A few years ago we were bought grapevines as a gift. The house gardener...


A huge thank you to our volunteers
It's Volunteers' Week and we wanted to say a huge thanks to all of our volunteers who make Village Greens what it is today. We have so...


Foods of the Forest....School!
Hello Village People. Karen here, eager to share an experience I had last week with my fellow Bury College students as I know many of...


Spicy Bengali Pumpkin with Coconut recipe
We hope you love this blog post as much as we do from Guest Blogger, Jay Henry. All of us here in the shop are going to give this...


Homemade Ginger Ale, Part 3: Bottling and drinking!
It's about time I finished this blog so that if you've been hoping to try it for yourself, you have the final steps This next step is...


Homemade Ginger Ale, Part 2: Fermentation
Itโs been a few days since I posted part 1 about how to make a ginger bug to make homemade ginger beer. If you did it right away then it...


Homemade Ginger Ale, Part 1: The Ginger Bug
Iโve been a little quiet on here lately. I have a phone full of photographs of my various projects just waiting to be written up so I...


Quick Recipe: Bran Loaf
Hello it's Becca again and this is a very quick baking recipe which I have been making for years (used to have it when we were kids) It's...


Presenting...H.M.Pasties
At the end of last year we introduced a new supplier in our freezers. We posted about them on our social media but the nature of social...


Creamy Garlic and Mushroom & Lentil Ragu
Hello it's Becca again and we were looking for a recipe to use up some kale from the garden (one of the only things left at this time of...
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