Join us at River Cottage HQ for a day of baking bread.

ADD YOUR EVENT DETAILS TODAY! Not that anyone needs an excuse, but Lammas is a perfect opportunity to eat and celebrate locally produced Real Bread. Taking its name from hlafmaesse, the Old English for loaf mass, Lammas is an ancient harvest festival. A traditional highlight was eating bread baked using flour milled from the first grain of the year. In 2009 and 2010, bakers, millers and markets round the country joined in the fun with events and activities around the local loaf theme. This year, why not join them? For inspiration, visit the Local Loaves for Lammas page at www.realbreadcampaign.org (link below) and then add the details here on our events calendar.

A celebration of Lammas with Lammas loaves on sale to the public made with flour from Gilchesters Organics to a recipe by Andrew Whitley.

Breadshare Community Supported Bakery invites you to share the Longest Lamancha Lammas Loaf, including some local, organic wheat from Whitmuir farm. Join us from 11am to 12.30 for milling, story-telling by Mrs Mash, competitons, and get involved in this exciting social enterprise.

Artisan bread making and sourdough craft workshop with Robin Van Creveld and Paul Nicolson the gorgeous Plumpton Mill. The focus for our day is naturally fermented and enriched doughs. We will make a range of breads and baked goods using Plumpton Mill's organic wheat and rye flours. We will also prepare and share a delicious seasonal lunch. Cost £75. Advance booking essential. More information on www.communitychef.org.uk

Bread Baking Special at Lutterworth Farmers' Market. 9am-1:30pm Come and bake bread! Free children's activities. We'll be bringing cereal grains grown and harvested locally: rye and wheat, and you can thresh, mill grains, and make bread in the market place in a wood-fired oven. You can also get info on getting seeds to grow cereals in your garden next year. There's a fantastic mix of local stalls, with WI cakes, local organic vegetables from Cotesbach, cupcakes by Sabrina, Leicestershire rare-breed meats, organic meats, free range eggs at £1 for 6 eggs, plants for sale, jams, preserves and hot and cold food to eat at the market. You can meet the producers and have a lovely day out, buying value local food, baking bread, meeting and enjoying the atmosphere at the market. If you're a budding baker wishing to start a bread stall at the market please let market manager Sam Green know. Sam's email is sgreen@gardenorganic.org.uk There's always a table and chairs at the market for meeting, and enjoying the food. Toilets, cashpoint and parking is available nearby.

We are looking for Businesses and Foodies with a passion for REAL food and drink, with natural, local ingredients to make the most delicious goodies possible! Bread competitions for professional and home baker. Classes include traditional white, wholemeal, sourdoughs, innovative and bread machine loaves. Please contact the Festival office for more details.

An informal, hands on day to introduce new bakers to the delights of baking their own absolutely delicious summery bread. We will be making stuffed olive bread to eat with lunch, and at least 3 other varieties of dough, including yeast-free. The final summer event, more to come in the autumn so see www.breadworkshops.co.uk

We are going to harvest the wheat to be threshed, winnowed, milled and baked at the Feast down on Hophurst Farm on the Weald - the hard way - with scythe and sycle. Train from Victoria at 11:23am - short walk to farm from East Grinstead station - possible £5 travel subsidy for totally unemployed. Harvest supper on the farm in the evening.

Workshop dates: Wednesday 24th August at Randwick Village Hall 09.30-13.00 7-11yr olds £15.00 per child includes drink and scones, and sample of loaf or rolls and recipes to take home Bring an apron ! Places are limited so please telephone Claire asap on 01453 757348 to book your place Claire Griffiths will be running these workshops. She is a local resident in the community and works as a parent and child educator with the relevant enhanced CRB checks, First Aid certificate, and Child Protection. She is also passionate about bread and baking, making it her mission to introduce and educate as many people as possible, young and old, as to how easy and simple bread making can be, and how important it is to use good healthy ingredients in our every day eating! ~ ~ The difference really is in your hands, when it comes to taste and health ! For more information on other courses, please don't hesitate to call me for an informal chat :) or email me on chickpeas@hotmail.co.uk

At 4pm, Real Bread Campaign member and virtuousbread.com head honcho Jane Mason will be talking Real (and Virtuous) Bread at Start@Kew. Free with admission to the Kew Gardens (£13.90 for adults, £11.90 concessions, children go free).

The Great British Bake Off contestant and cob-it.co.uk founder Simon Blackwell is giving a talk at the King's Cross Hub feast. Chris from the Real Bread Campaign will be there, too - but don't let that put you off. Free - just bring a dish to share. RSVP to ruby.kvalheim@the-hub.net

Until we know more this may be the last community bread baking day at Upper Grange, though we certainly hope not. Bring your dough anyway and bake it in the wood-fired oven. There's an opportunity to chat and have a cuppa while the alchemy is unfolding.

Since Lammas Day (1 Aug) Tim Keates has been doing the Great British Food Cycle from John O'Groats to Land's End on a 1930's butcher's bike. One of the thing's he's carrying is a pot of Campaign co-founder Andrew Whitley's sourdough starter, passing this on to as many people along the way as possible. So - if you're in London over bank holiday weekend and fancy grabbing some starter (refreshing the pot as you do so - oh and a photo would be great) get in touch with Tim. gbfoodcycle@gmail.com twitter.com/@gbfoodcycle For details of the rest of the route (dates are a bit out), visit http://bit.ly/mR6CYA Perhaps you could use the starter to running a sourdough class for people locally, or even baking a loaf? Could be a great chance to get in the local paper.