Many exciting ideas have already been put forward, a pop up farm, fancy dress, cafes and pop up photo shoots. Check out their Facebook page to catch the latest pops people are organising: The Pop Up Village and their main website thepopupvillage.com/.
I plan to hi-jack my friend Gemma's garden and have a homemade preserves and booze stall. While in the her kitchen Gem will be making delicious milkshakes in a pop up milkshake bar (I have been promised to be supplied throughout the day, yum!).
Now when I say booze, I recently bottled up some rhubarb wine that I made last year, my first attempt at a white wine. Well it wasn't a failure, but it also wasn't a wine. On tasting it was a most delicious dry white sherry! I am not the biggest sherry drinker (one glass at Christmas maybe?) so I though what better to do with it than sell it and make some money for charity. As it was home grown rhubarb there are no real costs to cover, all proceeds of the sherry can go to charity as profit! Over the next couple of weeks I also hope to make some elderflower fizzy wine, dependent on the rain, that can also be on the stand.
Preserve wise I intend on making two or three different things, firstly the chilli jelly I have mentioned previously in Christmas Preserve Swap as it is a very tasty and pretty jelly to make. Next is my favourite thing at the moment, red onion marmalade. In fact I eat it so much I have just made a fresh batch! I have made chilli ones and herb infused ones, but even just on its own it is the yummiest relish to have with gooey cheeses. I would also like to try and make a tomato and chilli jam just too really pull in the chilliphiles!Now with the content of the stall all planned out, I just need to think of a name that pops! Anyone have any good ideas???
