Urban Outdoors is looking for volunteers who would be interested in learning how to plant and grow a living willow hedge. We are offering on a first come first served basis 3 places to anyone interested.

Learn how to make real bread with artisan baker Melanie Curran. During this 4 hr course, you will be introduced to traditional methods, taught how to mix, and mould the dough. After baking we will sit down to a cheese board lunch where you can eat your bread and discuss with other course members the day's events and ask questions! There will be an opportunity to purchase bread making materials. This course is suitable for individuals or small corporate groups. All materials are provided. Course costs £65, however members can book for £50.

An exciting one day workshop that includes: - Planting and Growing organically - Preserving and Storing - Using fresh produce in your Kitchen Learn all the basics for growing your own fruit and vegetables from seed. Hands on experience planting up your own fruit and veg to take home. There will also be a recipe demonstration on preserving. This workshop is suitable for people with or without gardens. All welcome and no experience needed. This course is only �20 Sunday 5th February 10.30am to 3pm Carshalton Community Allotment Westmead Allotment Site, Colston Avenue Carshalton, SM5 2PW. food@ecolocal.org.uk 020 8770 6611 http://www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk/home/food-growing-training/kitchen-gardening-\ 5th-february-2012/

The Food Co-ops & Buying Groups project presents its 2nd East Anglian conference: GROWING, SELLING, BUYING: IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY Linking up food co-ops, buying groups, allotment plotholders, community gardens, urban scrumpers, & small producers February 6th 10:00 - 4:00 Sproughton Tithe Barn near Ipswich, Suffolk www.sproughtontithebarn.org.uk Presentations & Workshops from: Abundance Harvesting & distributing fruit that would otherwise be left to rot Maria Lacou of Wivenhoe - Troubleshooting & diversifying session for wholefood buying groups Eloise Dey - London’s Capital Growth project supporting community gardens to sell surplus Meet the Local Foods Suffolk team Rebecca Tully - Cropshare stall selling allotmentholders’ surplus in Walthamstow Metfield Chicken Co-op & Suffolk’s Pig Clubs + Networking with local groups and Action Planning to help set up or improve your community food project + Delicious lunch of local seasonal produce This is a FREE event but booking is essential More information and a toolkit showing how to get started is available at www.foodcoops.org

We have a garden workday to complete some winter tasks. Sunday February 11-4pm – workday then bonfire and wasssaing till late: we will be having an early spring clean, planting the thousandth Tree in the garden, and enjoying the nice early spring flowers. Plus there will be green woodworking, some physical tasks of mulching , forest garden work and clearing weeds. Later relaxing with cider and soup around the fire and giving thanks for the coming years fruits. We will provide garden volunteers during the day with a home cooked lunch, so please let us know if you are coming and we can make sure there is enough for you.

Wallington Farmers Market runs 9am - 1pm on the 2nd Saturday of every month. Now in it's 13th year, the market hosts between 25 and 30 stalls selling a full range of delicious local produce.

Learn all you need to know to get going in your own kitchen as a home baker, making delicious breads in a way that fits into your life. Our one day Start It Up class is an informal, hands-on session, in a domestic-scale kitchen. · Understand the importance of the ingredients - from grain to loaf – sources, millers and traditions · See how the fermentation works, and talk through how it can fit into your life · Work from different starters, through mixing, shaping and proving doughs, to the bake - experiment and have somw fun

Hosted for the Real Bread Campaign by Square Food Foundation, Bristol, this workshop is for school teachers and public sector cooks. it aims to help schools and other public sector institutions get baking Real Bread in the classroom and put Real Bread on the Menu in canteens. 2-5pm Find full details and application form at http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/on_the_menu/#training

The Birkbeck Food Group William Rubel will be presenting his new book ‘Bread: A Global History’ 6pm Room 538 Birkbeck, University of London Malet St. London WC1E 7HX All welcome

Abundance London has been working hard organizing the Edible High Road to take place in Chiswick later this year to celebrate the first Chelsea Fringe, to coincide with the Chelsea Flower Show. We are planning to create a river of fruit trees in big pots along Chiswick High Road, Devonshire Road, Turnham Green Terrace. We are happy to say that we have just signed up our 30th tree – more to come. Although the Edible High Road is not happening until May, the trees need to be prepared now, while they are dormant. We have had such a great response from the businesses in Chiswick, including restaurants, shops, estate agents, dry cleaners, etc that we are going full steam ahead… The pots and the trees and the soil (hopefully) are all being delivered next week, and we need to get the trees potted up asap. So please join us next Saturday 25th February, from 11am, at Cultivate London’s plot to sort them out. Cultivate London, who are training up young people to be the growers of the future, and who can grow plants specially for you, have kindly agreed to let us store the trees at their premises until May, so we will be potting up there: East Street, off Commerce Road, Brentford TW8 8LR. Turn off Brentford High Road by the canal to go behind the Holiday Inn, then East Street looks like a car park, with Cultivate London’s polytunnels at the bottom. So wear some old clothes, bring a sandwich and a thermos if you like (or there is a café quite near), and come along for a couple of hours of tree potting. Please let us know you are coming, so we have a rough idea of numbers... Kids of course welcome, but your responsibility. The trees will be re-planted properly around the neighbourhood after the festival, and will go to school playgrounds, to swell the orchard up in Dukes Meadows or to other suitable locations around Chiswick. Email: Karen@abundancelondon.com to confirm your attendance

Learn to set up your own home baking business. Earn some money, do something meaningful, develop your local community and build relationships! Baking, sales and marketing, admin and logistics. 10 am to 4 pm saturday and sunday.

Rob is back giving you another chance to learn how to make amazing 100% organic bread, and delicious garlic naan. We don’t seem to be able to provide enough places on Beginners’ Bread to satisfy demand! The January session is already full and this one looks set to fill up soon too, so book while there are spaces! Example of feedback from previous sessions: “Very inspiring workshop!” – Sue Nzilaric “I really enjoyed this event. It was well organised with an inspiring teacher with a passion for bread. I have learned so much and would like to go on an intermediate bread course” – Beverley Jenkinson. “What a fantastic way to spend a few hours at the weekend. Rob was extremely informative and the co-ordinators always to hand to help – brilliant!” – Hawys Williams £35/£30 - Book and pay via our website

Make focaccia, chiabatta and chocolate stromboli with renound chef and baker Ian Dowding - £40/£30/£20

This is an exciting one day course that will teach you about a range of fruits including apples and pears, citrus fruit & figs, vines, cane fruit and berries. - Learn about feeding, planting, pruning & formative training of your fruit. - Information on how get a good crop and the best ways to store fruit. All welcome and no previous experience needed. This course is only £20 Saturday 25th February 10.30am to 3pm Carshalton Community Allotment Westmead Allotment Site, Colston Avenue Carshalton, SM5 2PW.

Make your own crusty, crackling, golden Sourdough using a wild yeast culture, with an impeccable pedigree – captured 16 years ago from grapes grown in the Hudson Valley, New York and fed organically for the last 9 years. Making breads using a wild yeast (aka sourdough starter) culture is deeply satisfying and can be addictive! Workshop includes a step by step basic schedule for preparing your culture for baking, general maintenance, storage and a little advice on trouble shooting. The cost of the course includes your own wild yeast culture to take home.

Potatoes! You don't need a lot of space for them, you can even grow potatoes in bin liners or on your balcony. The low down on the different potatoes: earlies, new, old, blue potatoes, heritage. Workshop and tea - £45. Starts at 1.30pm.

Discover 800 years of Islington's Food History in this ninety minute pre lunch stroll. Here about white pot, merry milkmaids, Webbs soda water and many more dishes and celebrate the people who have kept London fed over the years.

This year the Fairtrade Foundation is aiming for people to commit to 1.5 million ‘small steps to a fairer world’ by the end of 2012. Find out what is happening in London, a Fairtrade City; CHOOSE a step and register it on the ‘Take a Step’ website; ORDER some ‘Take a Step’ materials; ATTEND a Fairtrade event like 'Fair Enough? A conference on co-operative journey for fair trade', on 7 March; or ORGANISE your own event.

The next Soup Kitchen class is on Monday, 27 February at the Happy Kitchen Canteen. We will be preparing a simple, hearty Udon Noodle Soup from Scratch using homemade Vegetable Stock and Organic seasonal vegetables. An introduction to the delights of Japanese Kombu Dashi style broths, which are ridiculously quick and easy to make. Book yourself a place at the table! Contact Happy Kitchen on 020 8525 4994 or email booking@happykitchen.org.uk