Broome Park Farm, Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast Accommodation Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire

I love the feeling of satisfaction at this time of the year when all the fruits of our labours in the garden are gathered in! This is the extent of my pumpkin crop - not great considering the number of plants I had but probably enough! There is lots to gather at the moment - damsons, apples, sloes and other hedgerow goodies. I attended a fantastic course on Tuesday organised by Shropshire Hills AONB, in the morning we walked the hedgerows around Craven Arms collecting fruits and berries and in the afternoon made goodies from our bounty. I am now going to make hedgerow jam, butter and ketchup!

This weekend has been Ludlow Food Festival - one of the busiest weekends of the year! Becky and I managed a couple of hours there on Friday - I am always amazed by the number of local producers in our area, we are very lucky because we can shop from most of the exhibitors throughout the year without travelling far. On Sunday our local country holiday group were manning a stand at the Festival and I had volunteered to organise it! Although I say it myself the stand looked quite smart and there was certainly a lot of interest - maybe that had something to do with the samples of homemade cake and Shaun the Sheep stickers we were giving away! Anyway I am exhausted now!