Events in your region

School Cooks and Caterers Food Growing Workshop

21 Sep 2010 |

Offshoots Permaculture Project Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum Towneley Park, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 3RQ

The day will enable participants to understand when locally grown fruit and vegetables are in season; to be able to work with pupils to ensure food is successfully grown through to harvest; to explore how food waste from school can be reduced by making compost; and to engage the wider school and community in growing activities.

Roast dinner day

29 Sep 2010 |

North West, North West, , North West

The Food for Life Partnership is inviting every school in England to take part in a Roast Dinner Day on Wednesday 29 September, an event which could be a Guinness world record breaker. The aim of the Roast Dinner Day is to celebrate the launch of the Food for Life Partnership Cooks’ Network, a network of 16 pioneering school cooks, and the fantastic work schools across England are doing to transform their food culture. There’s also a chance that the event will achieve a new world record for the ‘most schools to serve the same school dinner on the same day’, or beat the existing Guinness World Record for the ‘largest simultaneous roast dinner’, currently standing at 1,362 people. To take part in the event, all schools have to do is serve a locally-sourced/organic roast dinner and invite parents and the local community into the school to enjoy the meal. Partcipating schools might like to have a go at serving a Bronze standard meal, which means that it should be seasonal and 75% freshly prepared. The dinner may even include produce from the school’s own garden. If you would like to take part in this record breaking attempt, email Natasha Moseley, our events officer, at fflp [at] foodforlife [dot] org [dot] uk. Alternatively, you can call her on 0117 987 4582.

From Plot to Pot- planning what to grow

12 Oct 2010 |

Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate Quarry Bank Road Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 4LA

From Plot to Pot- planning what to grow An opportunity to plan what to grow in a school garden, from seed sowing to harvest, including vegetables, fruit and herbs. Suitable for new school gardeners.

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