Food Events and Conferences

Great British Food Festival

4th & 5th June 2012

In honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, this new event at Walton Hall, near Warrington will be a celebration and will take place over the Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday.

For more information, visit their website. 

Cheshire Food Festival

29th & 30th September 2012

Also held at Walton Hall, near Warrington, this annual event is a celebration of delicious local food as well as that from further afield.

For more information, visit their website.

Community Composting Network Seminars

 

The Community Composting Network are holding 9 seminars in March and early April to tell people more about their exciting project and how they can get involved. The seminars will run from 12pm - 4pm and are free of charge and include a complimentary locally sourced lunch! The seminars are aimed at local food growers and they promise to be jam packed with information and inspirational ideas.

When & Where:

Tuesday 13th March, Brighton, Earthship Brighton

Wednesday 14th March, London, Hackney City Farm

Tuesday 20th March, Exeter, Embercombe

Wednesday 21st March, Worcester, The Pumphouse

Thursday 22nd March, Nottingham, Arkwright Meadows Community Garden

Tuesday 27th March, Burnley, Offshoots

Wednesday 28th March, Darlington, Teesdale Conservation Volunteers

Thursday 29th March, Sheffield, Green Estates

Wednesday 4th April, Bury St Edmunds, The Quaker Meeting House

 For more information please visit their website or to reserve your place please complete this booking form and return to Hollie at hollie@communitycompost.org

Saltburn Farmers Market

Saturday, 10th March

26 great stalls including Skinningrove Wine, Freshly Squeezed Apple Juice, Game pies,Pork Pies, Spicy Bangers, Goat and Wild Boar Meats, Fresh Vegetables, Saltburns Homegrown Allotment Soup, Award Winning Cheeses, Cakes, Cupcakes and Handmade Fudge!.

Plus it wouldn't be Saltburn without a great range of art and craft from prints to pottery and all sorts in between!

Looks like we might also have special guests - The Bay of Bengal - running our hot food stall with a range of their curries to take away! - check out more details on our Facebook Page.

Real Bread workshops for local community food access projects

This March and April, the charity Sustain's Real Bread Campaign and Food Coops project team up with local Real Bread bakers to run a series of hands-on workshops in Bristol, Durham, London and Sheffield.

Each offers an introductory lesson in basic Real Bread making skills to give you the confidence to start baking, and inspiration for how and why to start making Real Bread (own-baked or bought in from a local bakery) available through your project. Places are available workshop for people representing:

  • food buying co-operatives registered at foodcoops.org 
  • other local community food access projects  - community-owned shops, veg box schemes, community cafes 

Sheffield 17 March 2012
Venue: Regather, Sheffield
Tutor: Chris Baldwin, Cat Lane Bakery
Time: 2-7pm
Price £TBC per person*

Bristol 28 March 2012
Venue: Square Food Foundation, Knowle West, Bristol
Tutor: a Square Food Foundation chef
Time: 6-9pm
Price: £25 per person* (including cake and a cuppa)

Durham 30 March 2012
Venue: St. Antony's Priory, Durham
Tutor: Lesley Suddes, The Bread Lady
Time: 5.30-8.30pm
Price £15 per person* (including soup, a cuppa and biscuits)

London 15 April 2012
Venue: The Hornbeam, E17
Tutor: The Hornbeam Bakers' Collective
Time: 11am - 4pm
Price £30 per person* (including cake, a cuppa and pizza)

*This cost will be covered by Food Coops for people representing a food buying cooperative registered with FoodCoops.org 

The application form and full details can be found here http://bit.ly/ouxqJz

For more information please email realbread@sustainweb.org

Calne Food & Drink Festival 2012

 

Date: Saturday 8th September 2012

Time: 10am – 4pm

Venue: Calne Town Centre

Cookery Demos, talks and workshops, beer & cider festival, food market, farmers market, food tastings, street stalls of all descriptions and much more.

UK's largest Edible Open Gardens Day

Date: Saturday 3rd September 2011, All day

Run by: Capital Growth

Location: Across London


Around 50 of London’s community food-growing gardens will be throwing open their gates to the public in September, resulting in the largest opening of food growing spaces on a single day for any one city in the UK.

On Saturday, 3 September 2011, the gardens are inviting Londoners to explore their neighbourhood growing spaces. The spaces are all members of the Capital Growth campaign to support 2012 community food-growing spaces by the end of 2012. Many are putting on activities such as garden tours, talks, and games, as well as selling garden produce, homemade food and barbeques.

A number of East End housing estates with vibrant food-growing spaces will also be part of a guided walking tour on the day, plus there are details of cycle routes available so people can hop on a bike to experience the incredible variety of spaces on show across the city.

For further information about the open day please contact Sarah Williams from Capital Growth on 07825056567, or at sarah@sustainweb.org

Find out more about this inspiring project and to see a list of the sites involved visit www.capitalgrowth.org/opengardens

 

You can also check out Capital Growth in 'Local Food's Big Review'.