Giant Asparagus Spear Set to Tower Over The Shard Building will begin later this month on a 320 metre high Asparagus Spear which will be unveiled in Evesham in 2018 to celebrate the fact Worcestershire is now the world’s No 1 producer of asparagus. On completion, The Spear will be the tallest building in the […]
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Lack of asparagus leads to cancellation of festival
News has reached us that the British Asparagus Festival has been postponed, and possibly cancelled, because there is not enough asparagus actually available for the festival. Worcestershire normally has the festival at this time of year but the bad weather has meant that the festival has had to be cancelled as not enough asparagus has been grown […]
St Georges Day is also the start of the asparagus season
The vast majority of asparagus grown in the UK comes from the West Midlands, ans there is more than 3sq miles of the Worcestershire countryside dedicated to this crop. The UK consumer demand for asparagus is increasing by 12-14% per annum, and production in the UK is rising yearly by around 7%. None of the […]