London Food Link events calendar

Food Events in London for September 2012
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Sat 1	Organic September To inspire people to cook with seasonal, organic ingredients the Soil Association has collected mouth-watering recipes from renowned chefs and food writers. Find them and other fun, enjoyable ways to get involved on the website or follow them on twitter. Duration: 30 days Location: Nationwide Contact: https://twitter.com/soilassociation Organisers: Soil Association Website: http://www.soilassociation.org/organicseptember Waterloo Quarter Food Festival Now in its fourth year - get the full Festival programme from the website and order your free Gastro-Passport – a guide to all the events and special offers. Pop-ups, cooking demos, tastings, a street market and music. Duration: 30 days Location: Lower Marsh, the Cut, Blackfriars Road and Isabella Street Contact: info@waterlooquarter.org Organisers: Waterloo Quarter.org Website: http://www.waterlooquarter.org/foodfestival Foraging walk Foraging walk: 11am- 12pm Price £10 Explore the nature reserve’s rich plant life and find out what you can eat!! Location: East Ham Nature Reserve, East Ham E6 6HN.On the corner of High Street south and Norman Road. Please Contact: Contact Wendy Paton: 07957 929 504 or wendy_paton79@yahoo.co.uk Organisers: Wendy Paton in partnership with Community Links Farmers markets: Acton, Ealing, Notting Hill, Pimlico Road, Twickenham, Wimbledon Park Stoke Newington's Farmers' Market SunnySide Community Garden Organic Food Market
Sun 2	‘Coming Home’ rediscovering our connectedness to nature We live at a time when our experience of nature is mostly through a documentary on our TV screens or the view from a train window. As a result, we can feel separate from nature; it can seem dead to us, a legitimate resource for us to use as we please. Failing to deeply understand our intimate connection with it, we find ourselves living in a time of unprecedented ecological crisis. On this experiential workshop we will have a chance to rediscover our connectedness with nature and our place within it. Immersing ourselves in the wild surroundings of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, we will have space to explore our relationship to nature with the aim of developing a renewed vitality and sense of belonging in the more-than-human world. We will work individually, in pairs and as a whole group, with a focus on using our senses and inhabiting the environment mindfully. By gently contacting our childhood wonder and delight in our natural surroundings, we may discover that this whole planet is in fact, our home… Location: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Contact: jogoldsmid@yahoo.co.uk / 07966636155 Organisers: Jo Goldsmid Farmers markets: Blackheath, Clapham, Islington, Marylebone, Parsons Green, Queens Park, Walthamstow Weekly organic market, Waltham Forest The Chiswick Farmers and Fine Foods Market
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Wed 5	Butchery and Wine Master Class Butchery master class from our very own executive chef Tony Moyse. Tony will be butchering rare breed mutton to show you what under rated meat this is You will then get to taste the cuts along with a tutored Tasting of some great Spanish reds. All this will be for £45 per person, spaces are limited, so book early to save disappointment. Location: Charterhouse Street London, Greater London EC1M 6HJ Contact: bella@smithsofsmithfield.co.uk Organisers: Smith of Smithfields Website: http://www.simthofsmithfield.co.uk Swiss Cottage Farmers Market Spitalfields City Farm - Get Your Hands Dirty Growing Food
Thu 6	St. Hilda's Community Food Co-op Westminster Community Food Co-op
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Sat 8	Storing and Preserving Learn all about harvesting and storing your crops including hands on demonstrations of making jam and chutney. To book, please go to www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk or call 020 8770 6611 Location: Carshalton High School for Girls SM5 2QX Contact: 020 8770 6611 Organisers: EcoLocal Website: www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk 6 Week Beginners Food Growing Course Learn everything you need to know to start planning, growing and storing your own fruit and veg. AQA accredited. 10.30am-12.30pm To book, please go to www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk, call 020 8770 6611 or e-mail us at food@ecolocal.org.uk Location: Carshalton Community Allotment SM5 2PW Contact: 020 8770 6611 Organisers: EcoLocal Website: www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk Three London Brewery Crawl Three London breweries, Sambrook’s, Brew Wharf and Kernel, are opening their doors to auction bidders at this year’s Great British Beer Festival (7-11 August) for the chance to look around the breweries, meet the brewers and sample their wares. Location: starting at Sambrook’s Brewery Contact: to bid for brewery trip, send your postal bid to baustin@supanet.com Organisers: Sambrook’s, Brew Wharf and Kernel Breweries Website: http://www.londoncityofbeer.org.uk Seed to Bread at the Essex Country Show Seed to bread workshop. Take part in bread making, from grinding the seed and making flour to kneading the dough and enjoying the taste of the finished product. A fun way to understand the field to fork process of making this every day nourishing food. Two workshops daily. 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 a.m. and 2.30p.m. to 3.30p.m. Duration: 2 days Location: Barleylands Farm, Barleylands Road, Billericay, CM11 2UD Contact: karen@barleylands.co.uk Organisers: Barleylands Website: http://www.barleylands.co.uk/essex-country-show Introduction to Bushcraft One day Introduction to Bushcraft: Learn how to start a fire without a match, build an outdoor sauna, learn how to do basic woodcarving, how to look for foods in the forest and prepare a meal on the camp fire!! Lunch Included. Price: £70.00 Location: East Ham Nature Reserve, East Ham E6 6HN.On the corner of High Street south and Norman Road. Please Contact: Wendy Paton: 07957 929 504 or wendy_paton79@yahoo.co.uk Organisers: Wendy Paton on partnership with Community Links Farmers markets: Acton, Ealing, Notting Hill, Pimlico Road, Twickenham, Wimbledon Park Stoke Newington's Farmers' Market SunnySide Community Garden Organic Food Market
Sun 9	Farmers markets: Blackheath, Clapham, Islington, Marylebone, Parsons Green, Queens Park, Walthamstow Weekly organic market, Waltham Forest The Chiswick Farmers and Fine Foods Market
Mon 10	Urban Food Week This week will see ultra local produce from within the M25 served up throughout participating eateries in London. From golden honey to green leaves, Capital Growth, Ethical Eats and Capital Bee will be making this a feast to remember. Duration: 7 days Location: London-wide Contact: kelly@sustainweb.org Organisers: Capital Growth, Ethical Eats and Capital Bee Website: http://www.ethicaleats.org
Tue 11	The Good Food for London Conference - Putting sustainable food on the map London’s food is changing for the better; join us for this special conference to hear from some of the people that are making this happen, including 2012 London Mayoral candidate and GLA member Jenny Jones, and Tristram Stuart founder of Feeding the 5000 and author of Waste. We will be celebrating ten years of London Food Link, the network for those who care about ethical and sustainable food, and hearing from the initiatives that have helped improve London’s food over the last decade. The event will also see the launch of the 2012 Good Food for London report, which documents how boroughs are leading the way in putting better food on the Londoner’s plate. Hear from the campaigns involved and the standout boroughs. Plus, in this Olympic year we’ll hear from those involved in ensuring that the food for the games and beyond is fit for Olympians. Sustainable Food Soirée, 5pm until late (evening tickets available) Join us for an informal evening celebrating London’s food, including ten short talks from those that have worked on some of the most innovative initiatives to make London’s food more sustainable in the last decade. Come chat and mingle over some tasty grub and share your ideas for what the next ten years could look like. Book your place at http://bit.ly/wUPHdt Tickets are available for the full event or just the evening, and both include an evening buffet. For more information - Please contact Ross Compton at Sustain on 020 7837 1228 or email ross@sustainweb.org Location: Rich Mix 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Contact: ross@sustainweb.org / 0207 837 1228 Organisers: Sustain - London Food Link Website: http://bit.ly/wUPHdt
Wed 12	Swiss Cottage Farmers Market Spitalfields City Farm - Get Your Hands Dirty Growing Food
Thu 13	6 Week Beginners Food Growing Course Learn everything you need to know to start planning, growing and storing your own fruit and veg. AQA accredited. 5.30-7.30pm To book, please go to www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk, call 020 8770 6611 or e-mail us at food@ecolocal.org.uk Location: Carshalton Community Allotment SM5 2PW Contact: 020 8770 6611 Organisers: EcoLocal Website: www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk St. Hilda's Community Food Co-op Westminster Community Food Co-op
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Sat 15	Fruit Growing Apples, pears, Strawberries, figs, vines, canes, pruning and storing. Learn all about feeding, planting and formative training of your fruit and how fruit forms and why trees blossom. To book, please go to www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk, call 020 8770 6611 Location: Carshalton Community Allotment SM5 2PW Contact: 020 8770 6611 Organisers: EcoLocal Website: www.localfoodnetwork.org.uk Urban Foraging in a Day Combining a guided wild food walk in Stoke Newington with a wild food cookery demo including jellies and liquors and a delicious wild food lunch. This is an urban foraging course for serious foodies! Location: Stoke Newington & Culinary Anthropologist, Highbury Contact: 01728 621380 / polly@foodsafari.co.uk / Polly Robinson Organisers: Food Safari Website: http://www.foodsafari.co.uk/course/urban-foraging-in-a-day/ British Street Food Awards The British Street Food Awards are landing on London. Go and see the coolest exponents of the art battle it out for Best of the Best as part of an amazing East End knees-up. Duration: 2 days Location: East London Contact: http://twitter.com/richardjohnsonx Organisers: British Street Food Awards Website: http://britishstreetfood.co.uk/ Abundance Wimbledon Fruit Day A fruit press in action, jam-tasting, pie-making, fruit-growing and bee-keeping information, chutneys, fruit cakes, fruit sweets, games and live music from the International Ukelele Orchestra. Abundance Wimbledon - making the most of locally-grown fruit. Location: St Mark's Hall, St Mark's Place, Wimbledon SW19 7ND Contact: Joyce Pountain 020 8946 3750 abundancewimbledon@gmail.com Organisers: Abundance Wimbledon Website: http://abundancewimbledon.com Hips & Haws walk Our Autumn red berry walk in Alexandra Park, looking at hips, haws, crabs and sorbs, and figuring out how to tell them apart, and which ones are edible. Most interesting are the range of edible exotic hawthorn fruits. Meet 1pm, at entrance to Alexandra Park nr junction of Muswell Hill, Park Rd & Priory Rd. Buses 144, W3, W7. Then back to local venue for (locally picked) teas and berry sampling session. We'll have some books to look at for identification. Most won't be ripe yet - that way you've got all season to experiment! Timing vague. Depends on the weather and how much fun we're having Bring: Cup if you want tea Any fruit you would like to try to identify (please bring leaves with it) Relevant ideas, recipes, concoctions, books. We'll be wandering around, so if you're late it might be hard to find us Location: Alexandra Park N8 Contact: Gemma 078 06 87 05 05 Organisers: Urban Harvest Website: http://urbanharvest.wikispaces.com/hips%26haws Farmers markets: Acton, Ealing, Notting Hill, Pimlico Road, Twickenham, Wimbledon Park Stoke Newington's Farmers' Market SunnySide Community Garden Organic Food Market
Sun 16	A Taste of Beekeeping An introduction to the principles of beekeeping in an urban environment: what bees are, how to keep them, how to get started, and weather permitting, an inspection of bees. £50 per person, recommend booking online. Location: Roots and Shoots, Lambeth Contact: courses@lbka.org.uk Organisers: London Beekeepers Association Website: http://www.lbka.org.uk/index.php?page=Courses Sourdough Baking 1 with Simon and David 11am-4pm Cost £25 Booking essential (no one turned away for lack of funds) Using sourdough culture is an ancient way of making bread Come to learn the basics of this wonderful technique to bake incredibly nutritious and tasty loaves You will learn to make sourdough starters and sponges and experiment with different doughs By the end of the workshop your own handmade sourdough loaf will be ready to take home together with your own starter for future baking, recipes and a handfull of new skills Please book in advance to reserve a place at hornbeambakers@gmail.com Duration: 5 days Location: 458 Hoe St, Walthamstow, London, (UK) E17 9AH Organisers: Hornbeam Bakers Collective Website: http://hornbeambakers.wordpress.com/ Fruit drying and making fruit leathers Thinking of getting a dehydrator? Or got one and not sure how to get started? Informal demonstration and discussion on preserving your surplus fruit harvest in a dehydrator. Bring any fruit you'd like to contribute. We'll have an Excalibur (pricey) and a Westfalia (cheap) dehydrator to try. The workshop is free but there are only 10 places, so booking required - contact info@greenlenstudios.com Location: green lens studios, 4a Atterbury Road, N4 1SF Contact: info@greenlenstudios.com Organisers: Urban Harvest Website: http://urbanharvest.wikispaces.com/Drying+fruit Farmers markets: Blackheath, Clapham, Islington, Marylebone, Parsons Green, Queens Park, Walthamstow Weekly organic market, Waltham Forest The Chiswick Farmers and Fine Foods Market
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Wed 19	Swiss Cottage Farmers Market Spitalfields City Farm - Get Your Hands Dirty Growing Food
Thu 20	St. Hilda's Community Food Co-op Westminster Community Food Co-op
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Sat 22	The Cake & Bake Show 'The first live event dedicated to the world of cakes, breads and the art of baking' Amongst many respected bakers, the weekend’s line up so far boasts Real Bread Campaign ambassadors and members including Paul Barker, Richard Bertinet, Aidan Chapman, Duncan Glendinning, the e5 bakehouse crew, Anthony Kindred, Tom Herbert, Patrick Moore and Patrick Ryan, with more guests to be announced. The Campaign will have a stand, as will members Marriage's and Wessex Mill. Other special guests at the show include Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood, Edd kimber, Paul A Young, and Eric Lanlard. Find details of the Real Bread Campaign members' discount in the membership section of realbreadcampaign.org Duration: 2 days Location: Earl's Court, London Contact: info@thecakeandbakeshow.co.uk Organisers: The Cake & Bake Show Website: http://www.http://thecakeandbakeshow.co.uk City Harvest Festival This show brings together London's local community farms and gardens. A show for the whole family - animals, produce, crafts -Golden Guernsey goats from Newham, honey from Dagenham and blackcurrants from White City. Admission £5.50/£4.50/£2.50 Location: Capel Manor Gardens, Enfield Contact: Julie.Ryan@capel.ac.uk Organisers: Capel Manor and Federation of City Farms and Gardens Website: http://www.capelmanorgardens.co.uk/events/city-harvest-festival.html Farmers markets: Acton, Ealing, Notting Hill, Pimlico Road, Twickenham, Wimbledon Park Stoke Newington's Farmers' Market SunnySide Community Garden Organic Food Market
Sun 23	Regent's Park Allotment Garden Harvest Festival Harvest Festival:Sunday 23 September 2012, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm To celebrate a year of food growing, come to sample lovely food cooked fresh from the garden - we will have fresh Real Bread made on-site and you will have a chance to make your own Real Bread pizza! Expert from The Royal Parks Guild will also be one site to answer any question about food growing. Green man workshop, competition, plant sale, seed swap and activities for all ages will run throughout the day! So come and joi us, it's all free! Location: At the corner of Chester Road and the Inner Circle, next to the Park Office NW1 4NR Contact: 020 7837 1228 / julie@sustainweb.org/ Julie Riehl Organisers: Capital Growth and the Royal parks Website: http://www.capitalgrowth.org/events/regents_park_events/ Green Sunday Part of the Open House London Weekend, celebrating all that is best about the capital’s buildings, places and neighbourhoods. A unique opportunity to get under the skin of London’s amazing architecture, with over 700 buildings opening their doors. Location: Arcola Theatre, Dalston E8 Organisers: Green Arcola Website: http://www.arcolaenergy.com/contribute/green-sundays/ Harvest Festival Come to Capital Growth's Harvest Festival at the Allotment Garden to celebrate another year of food growing! We will have lovely food cooked fresh from the garden, wood-fired pizza and Real Bread making, apple press, Green Man building workshop and loads of activities for everyone throughout the day! Expert from The Royal Parks Guild will also be one site to answer any question about food growing. And it's all free! Location: Corner of Inner Circle and Chester Road, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4NR Contact: 020 7837 1228/ julie@sustainweb.org/ Julie Riehl Organisers: Capital Growth and the Royal Parks Website: http://www.capitalgrowth.org/events/regents_park_events/ Farmers markets: Blackheath, Clapham, Islington, Marylebone, Parsons Green, Queens Park, Walthamstow Weekly organic market, Waltham Forest The Chiswick Farmers and Fine Foods Market
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Wed 26	Swiss Cottage Farmers Market Spitalfields City Farm - Get Your Hands Dirty Growing Food
Thu 27	St. Hilda's Community Food Co-op Westminster Community Food Co-op
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Sat 29	Foraging walk Foraging walk 11am- 12pm Price £10 Explore the nature reserve’s rich plant life and find out what you can eat!! Location: East Ham Nature Reserve, East Ham E6 6HN.On the corner of High Street south and Norman Road. Please Contact: Wendy Paton: 07957 929 504 or wendy_paton79@yahoo.co.uk Organisers: Wendy Paton in Partnership with Communtiy Links Farmers markets: Acton, Ealing, Notting Hill, Pimlico Road, Twickenham, Wimbledon Park Stoke Newington's Farmers' Market SunnySide Community Garden Organic Food Market
Sun 30	Farmers markets: Blackheath, Clapham, Islington, Marylebone, Parsons Green, Queens Park, Walthamstow Weekly organic market, Waltham Forest The Chiswick Farmers and Fine Foods Market