Visit Jersey unveils ‘Restore Your Balance’ campaign
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With high demand for staycations, Visit Jersey has created a new marketing campaign titled ‘Restore Your Balance’, to raise awareness of the destination’s varied product.
Under the campaign, the tourism board has launched four itineraries focusing on nature, adventure, family and heritage, aiming to restore visitors’ balance and sense of wellbeing. After a series of lockdowns, the tourist board is encouraging visitors to get outdoors surrounded by nature, whether breathing in the fresh sea air strolling along one of the island’s many beautiful beaches or taking an alfresco sunset yoga class at St. Ouen’s Bay.
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Trending: Kestrel potatoes are one of the best British potato varieties to grow yourself. Credit: Terry Brooks / Getty
Mark Diacono runs through his go-to list of British potato varieties to grow and explains how to help them avoid the dreaded potato blight.
For a few years now, most of the potatoes I’ve grown have been nutty, early, French salad potatoes. I love them, but, delightful as this Continental affair has been, it has rather clouded my memory about the pleasure of potatoes from these islands. This year, my hand may be forced: the twin delights of Brexit and Covid-19 mean that no one knows if, when, or for how much they might be able to import and sell varieties from the EU. Like it or not, it may be only British varieties this year. And I like it.
Workers from the Philippines have been recruited to work on farms in Jersey to plug the gap left in the wake of Brexit.
Growers had feared that Jersey Royal potatoes would be left to rot in the fields after farm workers, many of whom were Polish, abandoned the island after the EU referendum.
Farmers say the void has finally been filled by Filipino workers who were keeping the farming industry going on the Channel Island.
Filipino workers at work on Manor Farm, which specialises in growing Jersey Potatoes
Christine Hellio, who runs Manor Farm farm, said she now employed four workers from the Philippines
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