Growing & Cooking Food in The City – Conversations Around The Cookery School Table – Monday 29th April 2024

Urban Growing & Gardening – Cookery School at Little Portland Street Event for Plant & Share Month

We have teamed up with our friends at Cookery School at Little Portland Street to bring you discounted tickets to their brand new series of monthly events. Conversations Around The Cookery School Table is the place to enjoy lively discussions, networking with like-minded food lovers, and, as with all events and classes at Cookery School, the opportunity to taste some of their delicious food.

Cookery School’s next event takes place on April 29th 2024 from 6pm-8.30pm and this event is run with The Soil Association for Plant & Share Month. They have brought together a fascinating panel with a wide range of experience in greening in the very heart of the capital. The panel includes: Zoe McIntyre, General Manager at Hackney School of Food, Grace Dennis, Food for Life Programme Manager at  Soil Association,  Jack Wilson, Client Farm Operations Lead at Square Mile Farms, Peter Weeden, Chef Director at The Culpeper,  and Tom Butterworth, Nature Leader at Arup’s Wild West End.

Growing & Cooking Food in the City Agenda

6pm – 6.45pm: Enjoy welcome drinks, networking & seasonal canapes

6.45pm – 7pm: Demo of how to make Kuku Sabzi – a Persian herb laden omelette

7pm – 8pm: Panel Discussion with a Q&A

8pm – 8.30pm: Soil Association will bring along some small seedlings for people to pot in recycled cans, take home & grow, final goodbyes

Cookery School at Little Portland Street’s Urban Growing & Gardening Event will cover topics including:

* Is it possible to grow food in offices? What opportunities exist for vertical growing?

* How are city businesses making the most of their rooftops and using them for gardens?

* What can we grow if we only have a small flat or a windowsill at home?

* Can public spaces be used to grow food? How would one go about doing this?

* How are community gardens bringing together children, schools, parents, family and friends?

* Does growing your own food tackle some of the challenges we face with our food system?

HOW TO BOOK:

Visit Cookery School at Little Portland Street to book tickets  – Enter the discount code WIFIPLANT to get your tickets for only £10.  Remember to subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date with all of our offers and events.