Photographs from the Jersey Evening Post’s and the Société Jersiaise’s archives, as well as recordings of farmers reminiscing, feature in the exhibition, Farming Families.
Jersey Heritage curator Lucy Layton has chosen images that reflect more than 100 years of farming as part of the display.
These include scenes of people gathering seaweed for fertiliser (vraicing) in St Ouen’s Bay and children helping to harvest Jersey Royals in the early 20th century, when schools closed for the busiest time of the season.
The exhibition also features the JEP’s Keep Farming Campaign, which was started two years ago to raise the profile of Jersey’s agricultural industry and to encourage Islanders to buy local produce rather than imports.
The exhibition is sponsored by Albert Bartlett, the UK family-owned farming business, which exports and markets Jersey Royals for nine local farmers.
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