Celebration of the first Incredible Edible planting

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What a wonderful Saturday! Stone Soup at the market in the morning to build - and feed - the community, then planting and painting, music and mushrooms, bikes and baskets, ceramics and slackline, cheese and cheer, horses and homemade apple juice. Joy and generations. People happy to be celebrating spring and the start of the Incredible Edible project together. Singing them into creation.
Sárospataki Képtár

First Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region planting – celebration of spring and new Sensory Herb Garden at Sárospatak Gallery

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On Saturday 15 April we celebrate spring and the first First Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region planting into the new Sensory Herb Garden at the Gallery (Sárospataki Képtár) in the Castle District. This is a herb garden for all to discover and share – the first step of a wider project to bring more edible, medicinal and wildlife-friendly plants to the Tokaj Wine Region.

Download Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region draft presentation

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If you'd like to find out more detail about the Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region project and first planting event, feel free to download the draft presentation in Hungarian (with Appendix in original source languages - Hungarian, English and French). Info about Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region project and first planting event here.
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Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region – the beginnings

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A vision of fruits, nuts and vegetables growing all around the Tokaj Wine Region for all to share. The seed was planted! What an easy way to bring people closer to healthy, seasonal, free local food as well as to each other, nature and the local…
Birthday cake for Tokaj Hegyalja Piac artisan market at Sarga Borház Restuarant on the Disznoko estate

Original farmers’ markets and artisan markets in the Tokaj Wine Region

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I love markets - and broadly see a few types. The traditional farmers' markets where local people and farmers bring their surplus to share, to sell, seasonal produce from their gardens, plots and farms nearby. Fresh eggs and milk, yoghurts and cheeses, sausages and hams. Think of the typical lively village market scene, a bustling marché in France, a mercato in Italy, a mercado in Spain. Here in Hungary, the piac, and in the Tokaj Wine Region, we still have four thriving original markets (Abaújszűntó, Sárospatak, Sátoraljaújhely, Szerencs) plus a number of small town/village market days celebrated throughout the region. And then we have the new farmers's markets, where modern farmers and artisans bring their wares direct to the customer. Direct contact. Communication. Often with higher levels of animal welfare, environmentally friendly philosophies, artisan closer to nature. Slower. Reinventions of the original markets. Let's discover them.
handdrawn map / plan of Comenius school training garden and nursery

Gardens, nursery and orchards of the Comenius Teacher Training College in 1895

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Map detailing the teacher training plots - nursery and orchards - around the original and still existing historic teacher training college in Sárospatak, 1857. Plots include a large area of asparagus and seedlings, a variety of fruit and nut trees from apple, pear and cherry, almond and peach and a botanical garden for good measure. Plus plots for the servants.
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Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region – Presentations

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Incredible Edible Tokaj Wine Region presented at: Slow Food - Terra Madre Day, Sárospatak; Winemakers' tasting - Tarcal Research Institute; I Furmint Summit; tasting in Tállya. On 15 April 2023 we will transform a large empty bed in front of the Sárospataki Képtár into a herb garden for all to discover and share – the first step of a wider project to bring more edible, medicinal and wildlife-friendly plants to the Tokaj Wine Region. Fruit and nut trees and bushes, herbs and vegetables, insect and bird-friendly plants in public spaces that strengthen our link to food, nature and our environment, reinforce and develop our communities and boost the local economy.
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Garden Tours in the Tokaj Wine Region – work in progress

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Did you know how many interesting gardens and plant collections already exist in the Tokaj Wine Region? An incredible number already - watch this space as we discover them, collect them and bring them here so you can find them and plan your perfect garden tour! Most are private but many can be visited by prior arrangement.Here are a few places you can visit to find small patches of interesting and unusual plants, from rose and lavender gardens to collections of old grape varieties, local almond varieties and herb gardens. Plants with poems and prose next to them, immortalised in the written word. Permaculture gardens where plants live in symbiosis with their neighbours and the natural world. The list is sure to extend in coming years. As we move towards vegetable and fruit tourism!