Families looking for Halloween fun this October half term can try their hand at pumpkin carving - and eating – at a series of five family events across Devon.
Once you’ve carved your pumpkin, learn how to use the seeds and flesh to make a delicious soup and muffins, and take home a free recipe book by Hubbub .
The sessions will be led by two specialist session leaders, including The Crafty Cook CIC , who deliver cookery and nutrition courses in Devon.
This Halloween, 30.4 million pumpkins will be bought for carving and, of these, a whopping 15.8 million pumpkins...
A group of volunteers are carving out a reputation for growing some of the best pumpkins in Devon, just in time for Halloween.
Members of the Exeter Community Garden have recently harvested their sun ripened pumpkins, having sown the seeds for their successful crop in the summer.
The Community Garden attracts students, staff, alumni and local residents to work together and cultivate a variety of crops over the course of the year.
As well as pumpkins, the group has also grown nasturtiums and an orchard of traditional and heritage trees, nine raised vegetable beds, a...
Students, staff, alumni and local residents have been working together to grow and harvest a pumpkin patch, just in time for Halloween.
But pumpkins are not the only produce the volunteer gardeners will get to take home this year. With an orchard of traditional and heritage trees, nine raised vegetable beds, a huge variety of fruit and even a honey producing beehive, there is plenty of choice. Starting as a bare patch of land, the Exeter Community Garden has grown significantly over the last five years. This is largely thanks to Norrie Blackeby, who in 2011 raised the funds...
Last Sunday’s Hospiscare Jolly Good Jaunt was a huge success. A great big thank you to the many people who participated or who helped to stage the event.
403 people donned their tweed and walked 7.5 miles raising much needed money for their local hospice.
Amongst these walkers was the mayoress of Honiton Caroline Kolek, who had a brilliant day. She said: "Myself and Stephen were only too pleased to support our local hospice by taking part in the lovely `Jolly Good Jaunt`.
"What a great way to spend time with family and friends on an autumnal Sunday morning. The...
Down at the Greenwood Centre this half term you’ll find Hagatha our resident witch who is making a brew for the grossest Yucky Dip in Devon ready for Escot Fright Nights.
Come along and help stir the cauldron if you can bear the smell! Get ready for Halloween and with help from our friendly witches and wizards, choose and carve your own pumpkin to take home with you.
There's lots of spooky fun on offer during the half term holiday to keep your little monsters entertained!
25 - 31 October
Hallowe’en fun Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, Budleigh Salterton Hallowe’en fun at Bicton. Enjoy a range of Hallowe’en activities and visit the witches’ coven. www.bictongardens.co.uk
25 October – 1 November
exetreme imagination 2014 Exeter Exeter’s literature festival exetreme imagination is a unique, city-wide, multi-media, interactive festival for children of all ages. For information and for the full programme of events visit...
Clyst St Mary Primary School children made a very special visit to Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park’s pumpkin field on Friday last week (3 October).
Mrs Herbert and her Year 2 class were transported by tractor and trailer to a secret location where 22,000 pumpkins scatter the East Devon countryside.
Chris Down, Managing Director of Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park held the pupils’ morning lesson in one of his farm’s working fields. He described the pumpkin growing process to the children in detail, from planting the pumpkins seeds through to harvesting the crop, for...
Clyst St Mary Primary School children made a very special visit to Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park’s pumpkin field on Monday 14 October 2013. Mrs Ellis and her Year 2 class were transported by tractor and trailer to a secret location in the East Devon countryside.
Chris Down, Managing Director of Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park took the first part of the morning’s lesson talking the children through the process of planting the seeds, through to the flowering plants and then the transition from flowers to pumpkins. His lesson continued with the care and attention that must...
Autumn is all about celebrating the fruits of the harvest before the more severe winter months kick in, but more than that it is an opportunity to get together with friends and family to have fun in the countryside. We have a rich heritage in Devon for combining fun and food and a heartwarming community event. We take a look at just three in the Exeter area well worth a visit.
Quickes Apple Day
Apple Day is an event started in 1990, traditionally in October, by an organisation called Common Ground to be both a celebration and a demonstration of the variety of English apples and...
A half term treat with Storytelling and fun for young families with pre school and primary school age children.
Pop in for Pumpkin Tales and Creativity with with the amazing story teller Kevin Cotter of Love Local Food. He will be telling stories about pumpkins and piglets; investigating different kinds of squashes; making pumpkin and piglet puppets and scooping out seeds to make seed packets for presents!
