1. Picnic for 1,000 people will be home-grown

A vast home-grown lunch for more than 1,000 people is being planned in Reading by community gardeners and students.

2. Wargrave Food fair has TASTE! of the pros

Get ready for a feast on Saturday at TASTE! — the Wargrave Food Fair where local artisans will showcase the very best of their produce.

3. Gardening: Smoker undeterred by hebe bee-jees

My youngest son complains from time to time about the garden.

4. Go Organic: Longest day on the way

Tuesday is the longest day of the year. It happens at the same time every year but it always catches me by surprise.

5. Rural Reading: too much mowing damages meadows

The dry weather might have come to a dramatic end with what feel like April showers. I got caught out several times last week in rain and sleet, which rather enlivened a few walks.

6. Tea-time treat launches at Wokingham food festival

There is nothing more British than sitting down with a steaming cup of tea and a hefty slab of Victoria sponge cake.

7. Russell Grant’s Horoscopes 20th-26th June

8. Help make Reading bloom

A nine-year-old primary school pupil has really put her art into her gardening.

9. Family butcher is a cut above

A family butchers that prides itself on the quality of its ingredients and service over a quarter of a century now wears the ultimate crown.

10. Travel: Lovely Lithuania...

The question on most people’s lips when I announced I was off to Lithuania was ‘where on earth is it?’