Garden Coordinator Julieanne Porter explains The Great Fruit and Vegetable Swap. “It’s like a plant swap, but instead people bring along their surplus fruit, vegetables, jams and chutneys and swap them for something they don’t have. So if you have an abundance of courgettes you could swap them for something else, like carrots or pears.”

Children can take part in a free workshop where they can learn print-making by making fun designs using different vegetables. Adults and children alike are invited to bring along their apples to make fresh apple juice in the apple juicer and if people bring their own bottles, they can take some fresh apple juice away with them. You can also bring along a potato and bake in the garden’s tandoor oven. Butter and cheese will be supplied so you can enjoy a scrumptious lunch.

Barracks Lane Community Garden’s Harvest Festival is part of a series of events, funded through the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food programme, being put on at the garden between 2010 and 2012. The workshops are free and open to all. The garden is situated on Barracks Lane, off Cumberland Road, in Cowley/East Oxford. See website  http://www.barrackslanegarden.org.uk for further details.