In this booklet we celebrate both our beautiful homegrown seasonal food and the incredible variety of food cultures and cooks we have in Shieldfield.

We began working with Medical Herbalist, Jill Schnabel to learn about how to use herbs to support our immunity and wellbeing through the winter months. This booklet shares all that we have learnt during three online sessions along with written and illustrated contributions from members about their own experience of using herbs for wellbeing.

On the Winter Solstice community members planted garlic and onions. On the Summer Solstice, they were harvested. This booklet shares knowledge on how to plait and dry the produce.

In a celebration of the Winter this sound piece speaks to the importance of re-rooting ourselves in place and in the earth itself, and the holding of hope in the depths of winter.

A booklet sharing tips and recipes for pickling, preserving, drying and infusing herbs, fruit and vegetables. With contributions from Shieldfield residents and friends from Syria, to Sudan, to Northumberland.

In 2019 we began a Community Seedbank in Shieldfield so that we could save seeds from the plants we had grown to be used for the following years. This booklet offers information on how to save seeds.