Harvest festival

The scent from apples and sweetpeas must be wonderful, Namsnanny. Pretty picture too. Thanks.

Harvest Festival used to be my favourite celebration at school. Someone always made bread sheaf for the centre and the goodies were distrubted to 'the poor'.

I'd like to bet some of our teachers suddenly becams poverty stricken in the face of such largesse.

When I was a church-goer, I know the items went to deserving families because I was part of the team delivering, although I have no idea how they decided who got the fruits and vegetables, and even tins, which were donated.

The Unitarian church I used to go to always had a tins harvest festival so the tins would be money efficiently spent. The tinned food always went to an RC convent that fed poor people.

Namsnanny's beautiful gift shows man does not live by bread alone.

Harvest collections at our church go to the food bank that some of us support throughout the rest of the year.

I never knew where the produce went from church, but I can smell that smell of Autumn now when I think of it. A massive bread sheaf plaited at the bottom and that familiar smell of Russets or Cox's and fruit and veg of all kinds and colours.

We plough the fields and scatter-------

I have had a parcel from a school from their harvest festival, years ago.

It was lovely, and it really did help me out.

Namsnanny, beautiful picture, thank you.
The apples look so tasty, and I wish I had luck growing sweet peas.

The scent is/was lovely Alexa!!

Now I'm picking the medium sized apples and stewing them for later on.
The freezer is getting full, so I think friends and neighbours will be getting this next lot!!

Auntieflo … Thank you for taking time to post!

I know what you mean about growing sweet peas. My MIL used to have a huge garden given over to fruit veg and cut flowers of all kinds.
I loved sweet peas before I met her, but we gelled over them, and every year when they start to flower I think fondly of her.
She had a green finger, but I've had to keep reading up and trying out different things to get mine to grow, and to be honest this is the best year yet!
They just seemed to have enjoyed the wet sunny wet sunny weather we've had. Even the winds didn't disturb their flowering.

MissAdventure ….That's really great to know.

I've actually found myself in the situation to go 'dumpster diving' I don't know if your familiar with the phrase, for about 2/4 years. It really really helped me get by.
Not something I'm that proud of but there again, I wasn't too proud to do it!!

I've heard the phrase, and I'm sure I've probably done it myself, but I don't know what it is.

Yes, I thought I would let people know that the things they collect do go to deserving people; I was even poorer than I am now when I got my lovely little harvest basket, and I've never forgotten it.