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The Great Trentham Spudfest

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25.01.2022 The Trentham Urban Sketch Club (or TUSC to its many friends) meets every Tuesday morning at various location around the village. Usually that's face-to-face, outside in warmer weather and in cafés and homes when the cold weather arrives. Undaunted by the lock-down, they have gone online and today chose a "Spudfest" theme for their sketches, in honour of the festival which will NOT be happening this year. Enjoy!

25.01.2022 The Spudfest team is monitoring the Covid-19 situation. We are 7 weeks from the event. We’ll advise ASAP.

21.01.2022 We live in such a wonderful giving community. Thank you

18.01.2022 Spudfest 2020 is NOT going ahead tomorrow. Please enjoy your potatoes from the safety of your own home. We look forward to seeing you next year.

17.01.2022 The History of the Humble Spud #4 Imagine using armed guards on potato fields, instructing them to accept bribes then letting people steal potatoes, in order to make them more popular! That’s what Antoine-Augustin Parmentier did in France in the late 1800s. Before that, potatoes were seen only as aninmal food, then peasants in Ireland started using them in their cuisine. People believed that potatoes were indigestible or even poisonous and that they caused leprosy & haemor...rhoids! Parmentier was a pharmacist in the military for Louis XV. As a prisoner of war against Prussia, he was only fed potatoes. He didn’t get any of the diseases mentioned above and he even liked the flavour. When the war was over Parmentier came back to France and continued to investigate potatoes as a potential food source. He published several papers on the topic, such as Inquiry into Nourishing Vegetables that in Times of Necessity could be Substituted for Ordinary Food. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it! He organised lavish dinners in which potatoes appeared in every course and invited the best scientists of the time, including Benjamin Franklin. This way he could introduce the food to Paris’s high society. In today’s culinary language Parmentier means that a dish is made with potatoes, particularly mashed - Potage Parmentier is a leek & potato soup and Pommes Parmentier is diced cubed potatoes fried in butter with bacon, onions, garlic or herbs. Yum! Save the date for Spudfest 2020 - May 2nd - and get your Parmentiers, pronto! ;) #Spudfest2020 #Spudfest #Trentham #VisitVictoria #CoolCountry

17.01.2022 A sad loss for potato lovers...

15.01.2022 Spudfest 2020 Cancelled We have been closely monitoring the Covid-19 situation and making decisions about Spudfest accordingly. The announcement from the Prime Minister and Chief Health Officer this morning is "new information". The interests of our community have been at the forefront of our thinking, which is why we have been working to keep open the possibility of the event going ahead, for as long as possible. Unfortunately, the virus has won this battle and Spudfest 2020... will not be going ahead - turns out that our 13th year was not so lucky! We look forward to welcoming you next year to our wonderful festival and seeing you in Trentham, in the meantime, when we have put this trouble behind us. We would like to thank the many people who expressed their support for our calm and measured approach to dealing with this difficult decision.

12.01.2022 Ladies & gentlemen, start your cameras! (Well, check your photo albums, maybe!) Let’s share pics of our favourite moments from Spudfests past & tag them with #SpudfestGoesVirtual #thegreattrenthamspudfest to create a stream of Spudly goodness to sustain us until we can Spud together again.

11.01.2022 We love our cover photos on The Local & this one was special for lots of reasons. No Spudfest this year, but Trentham’s spuds are still very special!

11.01.2022 Two types of tickets to buy, to get the most from our mini-festival ChatFest this weekend - entry tickets (free for residents of post code 3458 - just bring proof - $5 per adults outside 3458) and SpudHut Tours, running at 11:00, 12.30 and 2:00. Book your Tour tickets here - https://www.trybooking.com/BQORJ Link for Entry tickets is in the event details on this page.

09.01.2022 Some signage is appearing - four sleeps to go. Railway Station is being spruced up by TRATA, so both the venue & the forecast is looking good. Have you got your tickets yet? (https://www.trybooking.com/BQIMM)

09.01.2022 What’s special about this year’s ChatFest2021 Devonshire Tea on Saturday May 1st? Scones made from local potatoes (yum!) Beth’s Preserves jam (yum!) and a great location - the Railway Station Platform (yay!). See you there!

08.01.2022 **SPUDFEST has fallen foul of the terrible Covid-19 Pandemic and has been cancelled for 2020. We wish all our Spudlovers good health over the next months and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2021. **

05.01.2022 Great chalk board at the venue for a conversation about the Sustainability Expo we are planning for #Spudfest 2020!

03.01.2022 We're excited that the 13th year of Spudfest is going to be bigger and better than ever...but not THIS big!!! That's a lotta spud! ;)

03.01.2022 We have some great local music at ChatFest 2021 this Saturday at the Railway Station on Victoria Street: 10:10 - 10:50 The Walsh Family Band 11:00 - 11:40 Michael Baker 11:50 - 12:30 Newbury Fog ... 12:40 - 1:20 Lyonville Ramblers 1:30 - 2:10 The Cartwheels 2:20 - 3:00 A Last Minute Band More details in comments on pics - see you there!

02.01.2022 Spudfest is very grateful for the ongoing support of Trentham & Districts Community Bank. With Spudfest 2020 cancelled, it’s nice to be able to celebrate this successful collaboration!

02.01.2022 The History of the Humble Spud #3: In 1853, an Alsatian sculptor named Andreas Friederich erected a statue of Sir Francis Drake in Offenburg, Germany. It portrayed the English explorer in a familiar pose, staring into the horizon in visionary fashion. His right hand rested on the hilt of his sword. His left gripped a potato plant. A plaque on the base proclaimed: Sir Francis Drake Disseminator of the potato in Europe ... in the Year of Our Lord 1586. Millions of people who cultivate the earth bless his immortal memory. Friederich was a fine sculptor, but not such a good historian: Drake almost certainly did not introduce the potato to Europe. Sir Walter Raleigh is know to have planted potatoes in Ireland in 1589 on 40,000 acres of land near Cork. It took nearly forty years for the idea to acth on and spread to the rest of Europe. Eventually, agriculturalists in Europe found potatoes easier to grow and cultivate than other staple crops, such as wheat and oats. Most importantly, potatoes contain most of the vitamins needed for sustenance, and each acre of land planted with spuds could feed up to 10 people. Spudfest 2020 is less than six months away, so planting (of ideas and spuds!) is well and truly underway. We'd love to have you join our volunteer MIH Team (Make It Happen!) - PM to find out more! We won't erect a statue in your honour, but you will have a great time increasing the Spudliness of our lovely town!