Looking forward to some good food and good conversation with the folk at WEC.

What: Harvest Supper.
Where: West End Chapel. Fareham. Hants.
What: Giving a short talk/epilogue.

Harvest is from the Anglo-Saxon word hærfest, “Autumn”.
Farmers celebrated the end of the harvest with a big meal called a harvest supper. Some churches and villages still have a Harvest Supper.

The modern British tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall. Victorian hymns such as “We plough the fields and scatter”, “Come ye thankful people, come” and “All things bright and beautiful” helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service.

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