Posted by Erin Zimmer, July 22, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Photograph from Daily Mail.
To mark her 61st birthday, Camilla received an organic carrot cake, but the more interesting garden vegetable involved at her birthday: a giant, flowery Durham Early green cabbage.
As fervent green thumbs, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles of Wales spent the day touring the Dig For Victory allotment, a project between the Royal Parks and Cabinet War Rooms promoting gardens on public land, first inspired by Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food during World War II.
Probably not accustomed to receiving birthday cabbages, Camilla responded to the gift: "Oh my goodness me, look at that. It's a big one."
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Prince Charles Opens Highgrove Vegetable Shop to Public
Posted by Adam Kuban, March 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Prince Charles opened his organic vegetable market, Highgrove, this morning to the public. Located in Tetbury, near his royal estate—also named Highgrove—the shop is the latest venture in the prince's Duchy Originals organic products empire. From the Guardian:
At Highgrove shop, the prince is sticking to the formula that has served him so well; on offer will be everything from seasonal vegetables freshly pulled out of the ground from the prince's nearby estate—no extra charge for the royal mud still clinging to them—to apple juice from Camilla's orchards in Wiltshire.
There will be jams, jellies, honeys, chutneys, and mustards, as well as handmade biscuits and chocolates. But the coachloads of visitors, tourists and shoppers that will beat a path to his store should not come expecting a bargain.
To be fair, it's the spendy souvenirs at the shop that the Guardian knocks; the produce, it says, is reasonable.
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