We’ve just spotted in the Essington Fruit Farm Newsletter: At last the pick-your-own season has started! We have lots of lovely strawberries, the recent rains have swollen them nicely and plenty are now ripening up. Other fruit crops will soon follow: gooseberries may be picked now but will benefit from a week or two to [...]
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Visit Essington Fruit Farm’s Bluebell Wood this weekend
Essington Fruit Farm have a charity event coming up this weekend…. “Every May we open our beautiful bluebell woods in aid of our Charity of the Year, which this year is “Air Ambulance”. Usually this takes place on the May Day weekend but, like everything else this year, the bluebells are a little bit late [...]
Pick your own at Essington Fruit Farm
Essington Fruit Farm is just down the road from us here in WV11, and in fact although it’s classed as South Staffs, it still has a WV11 prefix. I’m lucky enough to live close enough to be able to cycle over with my little one, we love the place so when I saw an article [...]
Essington Incinerator plans are scrapped!
Plans by Black Country Reclamation to build a waste disposal incinerator on the site of the former Essington Brickworks on Hobnock Road have been thrown out by Staffordshire County Council. Essington parish council objected to the plans, claiming it would be a “blight on the greenbelt and increase in traffic” so understandably they are happy [...]
