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 1st April 10.30am to 3pm Carshalton Community Allotment Westmead Allotment Site, Colston Avenue Carshalton, SM5 2PW. http://www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk/home/?p=710

Grow Sunday FARM:shop, 20 Dalston Lane, E8 3AZ Sunday 1 April, from 12pm www.farmlondon.weebly.com Come along to the farm in a shop on Dalston Lane this Sunday and help us plant, crop, and tidy. The polytunnel beds need turning over, the floating salad rafts need planting and the bathroom needs a lick of fresh paint. We'll be frying up some of our famous FARM tilapia fish as a snack, and we're a friendly bunch. So come along to help grow more food, eat and drink and make new friends! All welcome. Please email farmshopdalston@gmail.com so we have an idea of numbers.

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

The Bread Diaries is an urban intervention in Bread Street. The event connects city workers to the community of artisan bakers. By recreating the 17th century marketplace on Bread Street, the event comments on the dissapearance of the baker from our urban landscape. Over four days, discover the history of bread street, the bakers story, and learn about the art of baking. On the final day meet a baker and sample some fresh bread! Be prepared to be transported magically to the 17th century and have a chance encounter!

Hot Cross Buns in the garden. Come and make your own bun and let the scent of spices and citrus welcome in Spring. Dough provided £1.00 per piece

The Real Bread Campaign has teamed up with Sustain's Food Coops to run a series of workshops during March and April 2012 for people representing: food buying co-operatives registered with Food Coops other local food access / community food charities/projects. Each workshop will be an introductory lesson in basic Real Bread making skills to give you the confidence to start baking and making Real Bread available through your project. We will be prioritising applications from people representing registered co-operative food buying groups (one person per group), but where space permits, we will welcome second representatives from co-ops and people representing other food access / community food charities and groups. Find more details and the application form at http://bit.ly/ydLd8i

Objective The objective of this complimentary webinar is to provide an overview of UTZ Certified for coffee, cocoa and tea. Agenda The 45-minute webinar aims to introduce you to UTZ Certified. Now, more than ever, we want to know where our food comes from. We want to know that it is being produced in a responsible way that does not harm the environment nor exploits the workforce. We want to know that is being produced safely to good agricultural practices. UTZ Certified is a worldwide certification program that sets standards for responsible agricultural production and sourcing of Tea, Coffee and Cocoa. One third of all coffee that is sustainably traded is UTZ Certified. The demand for UTZ Certified tea and cocoa is also growing rapidly with major organizations in the producing, manufacturing and retailing sectors choosing UTZ Certified. Learn more about the complimentary webinar.

Learn how to get your dough just right to make white, brown and sodabread loaves, with our friendly expert Linda Dobbs. 9.45 - 3.30 course includes home made lunch and recipe/info pack. Maximum of 7 on course ensures lots of personal attention. Quote from our last course 'Far exceeded my expectations, and good value for money..a lovely place' Cost £75

Eating stinging nettles?? Yes, they are actually pretty tasty, as well as being nutritious and free! The stinging nettle is one of nature’s wonder plants, with a long history of use as food and medicine. Come to Kentish Town City Farm and find out more. Tender-handed, stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains. Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains!

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.

For people who have done our Sourdough Baking 1 or have some experience in sourdough baking, this session will provide a deeper understanding of the technique, teach how to convert any recipe into a sourdough recipe and experiment further with different flours to make starters and loaves. You will take your own sourdough freshly baked bread with you, more recipes, tips and skills.. and the confidence to keep going!

This is a 2 day workshop - an introduction to the deeply satisfying, addictive, mysterious and artisan world of making breads with sour dough starter. Breads to be covered: Wild Yeast Baguette, Georgia Flatbreads filled with yoghurt, mint, and cheese, 2 day Sour Dough, Malted Wheat & Rye Loaf, Brioche and Sticky Toffee Pecan Buns 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

This 60-minute complimentary webinar jointly organized by SGS and the GFSI, features world-class players in the food industry. Each is sharing their experiences and knowledge of the success factors, challenges and cultural transformation an organization and its supplier network may face when managing food safety and sustainability criteria across diverse markets.

In announcing plans to change the VAT rules on freshly baked, hot pies, pasties and other savouries, the Chancellor, George Osborne, has angered craft bakers across the country who fear for the resulting loss of sales and the effects on their businesses. In response to the announcement and in support of their members, The National Association of Master Bakers (NAMB) has mounted a campaign to ensure that this proposal is dropped from ministerial plans before it can become law in October 2012. Read more about the tax, the NAMB petition and sign to join the march at http://www.masterbakers.co.uk/

Time: April 26, 2012 from 10:30am to 3pm Map: http://bit.ly/JLsGGm Interested in eating healthier? Growing your own vegetables, salads, herbs or fruits in Tower Hamlets, or want to get started? Bring the family for a free one-day networking event for food growers and gardeners in Tower Hamlets! When: Thursday 26 April 2012, 10.30am – 3.00pm Where: The Centre, Maha Building, Merchant Street, Bow Road/Mile End, London E3 4PZ Free: Entry, lunch, workshops, goody bags, seed swap*, food growing sessions, interactive stalls, gardening Q&A, and wild food foraging walk. *Please bring spare seeds to share/exchange if you have them! For more information or to reserve a place contact the WEN Local Food Team: Email: food@wen.org.uk, Tel: 0207 481 9004 (Mon-Thurs). WEN is the local lead organisation for Capital Growth in Tower Hamlets and is coordinating the Tower Hamlets Food Growing Network. This event is in partnership with Local Food, East End Homes, Tower Hamlets Homes, Capital Growth, and NHS East London and the City.

Irresistable - doughnuts, chelsea buns, chocolate chip buns. Friendly expert Linda Dobbs will show you how to make these divine sweet breads. Cost £85, duration, 9.45 - 3.30, course fee includes lovely home made lunch and recipe/info pack.

The perfect antidote to Easter over-indulgence; this class will use vibrant ingredients and introduce you to some simple culinary techniques to maximise nutrition and nourish the body, leaving you feeling energised and inspired to reboot your healthy eating plans. Example dishes: Superfood smoothies Nourishing nibbles for smarter snacking Wraps & rolls Vegetable based pasta & noodles Cost: £60

ncredible Edible Lambeth and London Borough of Lambeth bring you a co-production: The Great Clapham Common Compost Giveaway and Pumpkin Seed Sowing Event! Saturday 28th April 2012 11 – 3 in the by the bandstand cafe on Clapham Common (googlemaps) Bring a barrow, a bucket, a bag or a buggy and take away green waste compost made on Clapham Common. It’s free! Plant a pumpkin seed and find out about Incredibible Edible Lambeth’s harvest festival pumpkin competition in October. Free! Get gardening and compost advice from the South London Master Gardeners. Free! Tell IEL and LBL what you need for growing and give your views on recycling food waste for compost picture shows Victor, area parks officer Clapham Common: king of the heap with a few of the tonnes in the giveaway See our blog feed the earth We’ve got a training session for community growers too – see here IEL training and workshops 2012 If you’re from a community growing group, sign up now for a free series of five training sessions. The first will be on Sat 28th, 2pm – 3.30 at Great Clapham Common Compost Giveaway and Pumpkin Seed Sowing Event. Please RSVP c/o incredibleediblelambeth@gmail.com

A Seasonal Kitchen course at the Concord Institute, April 29 – May 5 led by Melanie Waxman, one of the world’s leading Macrobiotic cooks and teachers. In this class, Melanie’s focus will be on developing confidence, creativity and intuition in the kitchen, and serving up a selection of nourishing, seasonal dishes and meals.

A two-week celebration of nose-to-tail meat eating. Chefs participating include the Dock Kitchen’s Stevie Parle, offal expert Anissa Helou, and food designers Blanch and Shock, as well as the Cinnamon Club, Table Café, Manson, and Nopi restaurants. They will be joined by other restaurants, cafés and caterers across the capital in embracing offal and other unloved cuts of meat during Nose-to-Tail Fortnight, part of a campaign to encourage more thoughtful, less wasteful use of meat, organised by the Ethical Eats catering network. Diners should visit www.ethicaleats.org to find a participating restaurant.