Sadly due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, as you would expect, the British Asparagus Festival events have been severely compromised this year. However, we still have Vale of Evesham asparagus growing in abundance, all local farmshops and supermarkets are selling this most desirable vegetable, so do please make the “Gras” part of your essential shopping list – whether you can buy it in person (exercising social distancing of course!) or adding it to your list when ordering deliveries from some of the many producers that are doing such a fantastic job in supplying us with local fruit and veg.

St Georges Day (23rd April) saw the official start of the growing season for English asparagus and was also the day that the British Asparagus Festival in the Vale of Evesham started – this year Vale Gras has been celebrated virtually with Fleece TV on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pg/FleeceInnBretforton/videos/?ref=page_internal

There will be a lot more virtual asparagus related events and activities taking place over the coming weeks – please visit often to find out more