Advent

DECK THE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF..... CAULI?

A cauliflower is not the first thing you would reach for when putting up your Christmas decorations.

And replacing the fairy on top of the tree, with a parsnip, could see you spending the festive season in your local hospital's more "secure" accommodation!

But the staff at Tulleys Farm in Crawley have other ideas.  Diane Simmonds and Sally Duguid from the West Sussex farm shop have created what they believe is a world’s first..... a nativity scene made entirely from fresh fruit and vegetables!

The Three Wise Men are in fact Wise turnips, onions and apples with lemon crowns. Mary and Joseph are made from butternut squash and the Little Baby Jesus is..... a carrot!

The sheep are made from cauliflowers and other animals made from potatoes, and other assorted vegetables.

There is a serious message behind the vegetable tableau. Stuart Beare from Tulleys says the nativity scene was created to encourage children to eat more vegetables.

Although eating Little Baby Jesus is probably not a very Christian thing to do....

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SEE THE SPUDS, VIEW THE VEG....

Take a closer look at the festive vegetable feast that is Tulley's Nativity scene!

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The vegetable nativity scene is on display in the Tulleys Farm shop until 24th December 2008. The farm shop is open daily from 9.00am to 5.00pm (closed 25th, 26th December & 1st January).

Farther Christmas (not made out of vegetables) will be in his log cabin at Tulleys Farm on the weekend of 6th & 7th December, then daily from 13th to the 24th December.

For details visit www.tulleyschristmas.co.uk or call 01342 718472