Press Releases
Within the pink trail of more than 1500 runners and walkers around Trinity Park last week hoping to raise more than £105,000 for Cancer Research UK were a team of six from the SAA office who called themselves “Trinity Totties”, who completed the 5km Race for Life and raised almost £700 for the cancer charity
Vision, diversification, effective use of land and inspirational are just some of the words used by the judges and attributed to Suffolk farmers for their enterprises in the SAA Farm Business competition, which was judged last week.
Garden conference is talk of the town
Gardening was the talk of the town at Trinity Park, Ipswich, yesterday, (November 4) when three of the countries leading designers and landscape architects revealed some of their favourite gardening secrets and gave practical advise on how to maintain a garden to the standard it was created.
George Paul was today appointed President for this year’s Suffolk Show to be held on June 2nd and 3rd. The announcement was made at the Annual General Meeting of the Suffolk Agricultural Association held at the show’s site at Trinity Park.
The Suffolk Agricultural Association has appointed Mendlesham-based arable farmer and contractor David Nunn as the deputy director of the Suffolk Show 2010.
Farmers throughout Suffolk were recognised for their farm business skills last week at the annual “Oscars” of the county’s farming scene.
The first Student Food and Farming Day jointly run by the Suffolk Agricultural Association, Otley College, the Suffolk Education Business Partnership Ltd and Hollow Trees Farm, was hailed an outstanding success by the organisers.
President of the Suffolk Agricultural Association Mike Hollingsworth together with his wife Mary and daughter Angie Ashby-Hoare held a tea party to hand over £800, raised by guests attending the President’s lunches during this year’s Suffolk Show, to St Elizabeth Hospice his chosen charity for his year in the role.
Thousands of Suffolk schoolchildren got their hands dirty when they went back to the land to discover more about where their food comes from and the importance of the countryside to today’s living, at the School Farm and Country Fairheld on Thursday April 23, 2009 at Trinity Park.
The theme Combinable Crops has clearly stimulated the minds and imagination of many of the county’s school pupils, as once again the Suffolk Schools Competition has attracted a large number of entries across the seven classes.