TCHT Mahorall Autumn Fayre
Mahorall Farm
Start date : Saturday - 25 - September - 2010
End date : Saturday - 25 - September - 2010
Following the success of last years Autmn Fayre, TCHT will be again running an Autumn Fayre, with the focus on Rural Crafts and Food for Free/Autumn Foraging.
The proposed event is the third in a series of innovative celebrations of traditional rural crafts and country skills which promote both field and kitchen skills once common in rural communities. Two such events have been organised and run by Titterstone Clee Heritage Trust, (a charitable trust created to conserve and promote the rich heritage of Titterstone Clee Hill in 2006, see www.thecleehilltrust.co.uk). The series was launched with grant aid from the AONB ‘Blue Remembered Hills’ Project and Ludlow District Counciul in 2007. It was continued by popular demand in 2009 funded solely by TCHT. Attendance has doubled from c. 250 in 2007 to c. 500 in 2009. At the 2009 event visitors repeatedly asked for it to be a yearly event. The Fayre is unique in the area being not aligned with any specific settlement but both a family entertainment and an educational opportunity themed on the landscape of Titterstone Clee, its audience being all of the communities on and around the hill. In 2009 it demonstrated a range of woodland crafts, blacksmith and farrier skills, falconry and various other crafts alongside other cultural traditions, [see www.http://www.thecleehilltrust.co.uk/galleries]. The event is well attended by stalls from conservation bodies such as the Shropshire Wildlife Trust allowing contact between such organisations and the communities of the hill.The 2010 event will take its underlying theme from the need for rural resilience and will seek to promote an awareness of the landscape and what wild foods were once gathered and processed by country dwellers. Elements relating to this will include hedgerow and woodland foraging walks for adults and children and traditional food processing, autumn berries, jams, jellies, traditional ‘Saucer Batters’ of sweet or savoury from the Marches, pies drinks etc.Mahrall Farm, kindly loaned to the Trust, for the day by the King-Turner family, is a traditional cider farm and is a unique venue in offering access to their hedgerows and woods as well as their expertise and farm buildings. The 2010 event will also be used to launch the TCHT ‘Novers Limestone Wood Forest Garden Project, funded by Shropshire County and Natural England’s Natural Assets scheme. The first stage of this project, to create a woodland based forest garden and educational resource, unique in the County, will commence in Sept 2010 and run until Jan 2013..
Have a look at past Autumn fayres in our Galleries HERE