By Kath Burton
February 2025
I've been thinking about winter. Maybe I've just been thinking about when winter will end. I don't want to let winter wash over me. There's something about the tingle of cold that I love. But there's also something tingling inside. An urgency to do something. Resisting the urge to fully hibernate.
So I read a book.
Wintering (by Katherine May) is a wonderful song of a book that offers insights into the author's own wonderings about winter and gathers together in brilliantly peaceful prose how the winter months in the UK, while dark and often cold, provide the opportunity to gather; ourselves, our friends and family. As well as our hopes.
I'll revisit this book again and again, hopefully. See how the next winter season's gatherings have changed from the last. And what hopefulness we might take with us into future seasons.
This book came to me in perfect time. The best context for preparing the latest edition of Fill my Plate - wow, does my plate feel full of tingles and INCREDIBLE community gardening hopefulness!! As we prepare for the growing season ahead, a reminder of how the IER community is getting growing again:
🌱 Reading Food Growing Network's AGM is taking place on 23 February
💚 RISC (35-39 London Street) from 4:40pm with Dave Richards
🌱 Food4Families drop-in sessions at Ardler Road Allotments in Caversham
💚 Open to all on 26 February and 29 March between 10:00am and 12:00pm
It may still be chilly outside, but our green fingers are on fire taking stock of the small actions we can take as individuals while imagining the edible landscape in Reading. We hope you’ll find some inspiration for your small actions as we look towards the green shoots of spring. We're all remaining hopeful for what may come, what knowledge we can share to get the town growing and how we can connect with each other over the coming weeks and months.
If there is one thing we all need now, it's hope. There is nothing more radical.
In community. In Reading. Growing food together. 💚🥕🌱
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