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Foods of the Waltham Forest: Local food celebration
Saturday 8 September 2007, 10am-5pm

Taking place at the Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe Street E17, where Hoe Street meets Bakers Avenue. Nearest tube station Walthamstow Central, served well by buses coming to the Bakers Arms junction on Lea Bridge Road and many cycle routes.

* Particpate in workshops on food-y themes; taking you from the plot to the pot to the plate... timetable below or download the full programme here.

* Good food swap - 12.30-2pm: Swap your grown-produce for somebody elses pickles and bakes in a locally celebrated 'good food swap'... it's about sharing food you've made, grown, picked or found. It's a chance to show off your produce and share good food by swapping what you've brought with other people, without the need for money changing hands. Full guidelines below.

* Buy fresh food from the regular, organic fruit and veg stall, celebrating one year of providing quality fresh food in this corner of town.

* Savour tasty organic, fairtrade food with sumptious atmosphere at the Hornbeam's Saturday cafe... open and serving all day and into the evening.

Workshops (download the full programme here)

10.30 - 11.30    A talk on "Bach Flower Remedies"
10.30 - 11.30    The farm in your kitchen: Sprouting secrets

11.30 - 12.30    Food energetics: nutrition and your health
11.30 - 12.30    Info-share on "bee(zzzzz)-keeping"
11.30 - 12.30    Seedball making (children's activity)

12.30 - 2pm       Local Good Food Swap (guidelines below)

2.30 - 3.30        An introduction to Permaculture
2.30 - 3.30        Why are people campaigning against Tesco? The reasons and the struggle
2.30 - 3.30        Food-growing on housing estates

3.30 - 4.30        Setting up Food Co-ops and Buying Groups
3.30 - 4.30        Using kitchen herbs for health

5 - 6pm            Making your own wine from the hedgerows
5 - 6pm        A dab of Chutney-making to keep your taste-buds active


Tne Good Food Swap - how it works

What you can bring: please bring wholesome, naturally produced, vegetarian food. It could be vegetables you've grown, fruit you've picked from the hedgerow, jam or bread or cakes or pickles that you've made… we're excluding meat for food safety reasons, and in order to make it accessible to as many people as possible.

Before: please bring your food already packaged in swappable size portions, and provide some information about it on a label or card, eg. a list of the ingredients or where it was grown. If you have any questions about what you are planning to bring, please call 07712 652003.

On the day: There will be a food swap registration desk in the Forest Recycling Project next to the Hornbeam Centre (on Bakers Avenue). You can bring your produce to the registration any time between 10am and 1pm so you can then go off and take part in a workshop or have something to eat in the café.

The swap: Come back for the swap itself which will take place between 1.15 and 2pm. You get to choose something you like and someone else gets to enjoy the food you brought along!

If you can't be here at 1.15pm for the swap you are still welcome to donate produce earlier in the day, but it will be more fun to take part in the swap itself!

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