Garden and Food National and Awareness Days
| There are a number of food awareness days and garden awareness days so here are a few to check out... |
| September 2020 | |
| Organic September For a month, and held to raise awareness of all things organic. Every small change makes a difference in supporting a system of farming that works with nature. | |
| 5-20 | Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight Starts on 31 August and runs to 15 September, celebrating and enjoying fantastic Scottish produce |
| 23 Sept - 23 Oct | Seed Gathering Week Since 1998, The Tree Council has been organising Seed Gathering Season, the autumn campaign to inspire everyone to gather seeds, fruits and nuts and grow the trees of the future. |
| 19 Sept - 4 Oct | British Food Fortnight |
| October 2020 | |
| 21 | Apple Day Celebrate our most versatile fruit and the beautiful orchards they come from. Visit PTES |
| November 2020 | |
| 1 | World Vegan Day World Vegan Month celebrates how far the vegan movement has come, to highlight beneficial a vegan lifestyle can be and to encourage the vegan-curious to adopt veganism by sharing advice, recipes and ideas. Plate up for the planet! Find out more |
| 23 Nov - 1 Dec | National Tree Week National Tree Week is the UK's largest tree celebration annually launching the start of the winter tree planting season. Root out more information |
| December 2020 | |
| 25 | Christmas Day! |
| January 2021 | |
| 6 | National Shortbread Day Mark the day by treating yourself to some traditional shortbread! |
| Late Jan TBC | Big Garden Birdwatch Spend a joyful hour watching the birds in your garden or local park and report your findings to the RSPB to help with the world's biggest birdwatch and help with nature conservation. Fly off for more information. |
| February 2021 | |
| 14-21 | National Nest Box Week NNBW aims to encourage everyone to put up nest boxes in their local area in order to promote and enhance biodiversity and conservation of our breeding birds and wildlife. Fly off for more information here |
| 22 Feb - 1 Mar | Read Bread Week The annual, international celebration of Real Bread and people who make it. #RealBreadWeek |
| March 2021 | |
| First week TBC | Time for a Cuppa Week Pop the kettle on and share your favourite bakes with family, friends and colleagues, while helping specialist dementia nurses support more families facing dementia? Go for more information from Dementia UK |
| April 2021 | |
| 4 | National Carrot Day The International Carrot Day or the Carrot Day celebrates the carrot through carrot parties and other carrot related festivities. Find out more |
| 29 Apr - 5 Mar | National Gardening Week The week was launched by the RHS is all about sharing your passion for plants. Find out more here |
| May 2021 | |
| TBC | Hedgehog Awareness Week Please do one thing in your garden to help hedgehogs - create a log pile, make sure there's a hole in your fence for hedgehogs to get through - find out more from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society |
| 21 TBC | British Tomatoes Fortnight Celebrate glorious British tomatoes! More info |
| Late May TBC | English & Welsh Wine Week Celebrate English & Welsh wines! |
| TBC | National Cucumber Day |
| TBC | National Vegetarian Week Join millions of others enjoying vegetarian food! |
| TBC | Look before you strim your hedge Asking people to watch for wildlife before they strim the hedge |
| TBC | National Sandwich Week Celebrating the British sandwich. Make your own, save yourself money and save packaging. More info |
| June 2021 | |
| 21-30 | National Picnic Week National Picnic Week aims to encourage people to take the ideal opportunity to get together over a picnic with advice, tips, recipes and information. Tuck into more information. |
| July 2021 | |
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| Aug 2021 | |
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