Eel events

Real Bread Maker Week is time to give some love to the Real Bread maker: On your high street In your kitchen cupboard At the ends of your sleeves This is the only national week exclusively dedicated to celebrating artificial-additive-free loaves and the local bakers who make 'em! Click on other dates this week for events. Find special offers and more details about the week at http://bit.ly/9Sa3R0 Please add the details of your own event to this calendar using the 'add your event' link above.

Brixton Windmill opens for the summer season on Easter weekend. On 7 May 7 (bank holiday Monday) we are holding a parade from Brixton to our festival in Windmill Gardens. The theme is recycling. If you or your group want to design a poster, take a stall at the festival, decorate a float, create a dragonfly or bug to decorate the railings of the park, or make a fantastic costume out of recycled materials, you are welcome to do so. We hope May Day 2012 will be a great day for Brixton Windmill and a great day for Brixton. Come along and join the fun in Windmill Gardens on Monday 7 May!

A half-day workshop for festival and street-food caterers looking to learn more about building sustainable food principles into their dishes. Cost: £15, or £10 for London Food Link and SRA members, and Food Legacy pledge signatories

Learn how to make the perfect doughs to produce a white tin loaf, rustic brown bread and soda bread. Friendly expert Linda Dobbs will show you how. cost £75 includes lunch and a recipe/info pack to take home with your breads. Timing - 9.45 am - 3.30 pm

Highbury Builders Collective are once more holding their popular \"Introduction to Beekeeping\" short courses over the next couple of months at their customised apiary in Finsbury Park. There is now a greater awareness of how important honey bees are to the health of our environment but a declining number of people with the skills to take care of these very important creatures. So why not come along and learn the basics of what beekeeping is all about - you will get to handle live bees and it may inspire you to become a beekeeper yourself. The course costs £30 per person and places are limited so its first come, first served! If you are interested in booking one of these dates then e mail your name and what date you would like to attend to: info@highburybuilders.co.uk and we will get back to you with further information. Please note you pay cash on the day of attendance and we will only run a course with a minimum of four people. We shall also run an extra course on the same day if demand is exceptionally high. DATES: Saturday May 12th 11 - 1pm Saturday May 19th 11 - 1pm Saturday May 26th 2 - 4 pm

Geraint Roberts joins Maria Mayerhofer for a sourdough classat the baking lab for Real Bread Maker Week. SOLD OUT

A one-day course offering an understanding of the role of bees in supporting wildlife and agricultural production and a taster of what it is like to look after bees in the city. Cost £60. Long trousers and closed shoes essential.

This year's theme is Fairtrade Breakfast - 'the most important step of the day'. Your chance to buy - and promote - Fairtrade products. The Olympic Games catering outlets are doing their bit - tea, coffee, sugar, bananas - will be 100% Fairtrade.

Growing your own food and eating delicious,local and seasonal produce

Join Chiswick House and Gardens Trust in a celebration of spring! Fun for all the family from 11am - activities, games and entertainments as well as plants and vegetable seedlings on sale.

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution team says: 'We will be looking to everyone and anyone who cares about food to step up, get involved and join people around the world by hosting or attending local food events in their community. All funds raised during the campaign will go to impact local and national projects and help us launch a food education movement spearheaded by our annual day of action. ' The Real Bread Campaign would like all bakers to take this opportunity to teach Lessons in Loaf - that is a Real Bread making class for kids (and perhaps parents and teachers as well) in a local school. Register your interest in Food Revolution Day by signing up at www.foodrevolutionday.com to stay up to date You can also apply to be a Food Revolution Day Ambassador or submit an offer of your help for Food Revolution Day through the landing page. and find our more at http://bit.ly/zcOL6V

Featuring around 180 growers, RAW promises to be one of the most exciting collections of fine, organic and biodynamic wine artisans ever to come together in the capital. Features talks, tastings and artisan food stands. Trade day takes pace on May 21st.

This two hour walk explore Islington's Food history, from its days as a small village supplying London with milk, through to the pleasure gardens of the 18th century selling cakes and ale, to Italian cafes of the 1950s. Come and hear about, white pot, cream and cake boys, merry milkmaids and Islington Cheescake from a qualified Islington guide. Meet at Angel Tube Station 7pm Cost £10 or £7.50 concessions

Yes you can! You can make delicious rye/caraway and walnut breads using 100% wholemeal organic flour, freshly milled on the premises in our working watermill. Cost £85 includes lunch and recipe/info pack. course timing, 9.45 - 3.30.

Bakers, farmers, growers, allotment holders, scientists, beekeepers, and people who eat food are turning out to voice their opposition to GM crops coming back to the UK. Meet Sunday 27th May, at 12 noon, in Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts. Or take your own action in your own way, at your own time. Together we can stop this trial.

London’s Top Veggie restaurant competition The Jellied Eel magazine and Ethical Eats will be launching a competition to find the best veggie restaurant in London to tie in with National Vegetarian Week. We will be asking Londoners to tell us which is the best exclusively vegetarian eateries in the Greater London area. We’re looking at any kind of eatery, be it a café, restaurant or even a pub, but the premises has to be open to the public with catering as it’s main purpose. In the meantime we want you to tell us who we should be putting in our list before the voting starts on April 3rd. Please send your suggestions to thejelliedeel@gmail.com Not only will the winning entry get the credit they deserve, but if your choice is voted top, you have a chance of winning a meal for two at the winning restaurant. The competition is open until 27 May. A short-list of those with the most public votes will be put to an expert panel, with the winning restaurant being announced in early July. www.thejelliedeel.org

Public day of action against the Rothamsted genetically modified wheat trial. Bakers, farmers, growers, allotment holders, scientists, beekeepers, and people who eat food are turning out to voice their opposition to GM crops coming back to the UK. Meet Sunday 27th May, at 12 noon, in Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts. Or take your own action in your own way, at your own time. Together we can stop this trial. Cow genes on toast anyone? No thanks! What's up with the trial? It could be dangerous. This trial is testing a brand-new synthetically-constructed 'fake' gene that is 'most similar to one found in a cow'. This is a concerning use of synthetic genes and of animal genes in plants. It's not wanted. Even the USA has abandoned attempts to commercialise GM wheat because there is no market for it. Biotech company BASF recently backed out of Europe because no-one wanted to buy GM food. Once it flowers, it's here to stay. The trial is happening in the open air, meaning that when it starts to flower it can cross contaminate other wheat crops and wild grasses. This is a real threat. In Canada there is no organic oilseed rape left because all the farms have been cross-contaminated with GM rapeseed. For more info nearer the time, go to www.taketheflourback.org or contact us at info [AT] taketheflourback.org