Nursery World - A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition

As a bountiful autumn draws to an end, Mary Llewellin turns her tastebuds to some delicious Christmassy fare

We’ve just had a lovely visit to the 14th century St Cyriac’s church in Lacock, Wiltshire, with some of the children from Snapdragons Corsham. The children were bringing the food they had collected for the harvest festival; food that was destined for a food bank.

The food the children brought was mostly in tins, sometimes in packets, and bore no resemblance to the harvest produce which previous generations would have brought – although the local bakery had provided a beautiful loaf in the shape of a wheat sheaf – but they were carrying on a tradition that has been in place for hundreds of years. Celebrating a bountiful harvest and sharing the produce with others less fortunate is a long-held tradition in Britain, and also exists in some form in almost every other culture of the world.

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