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Local Food Week at St Aidan's Church from 13th June
Visitors to an East Hull local food celebration will be in for culinary and musical treats this month. Gerard Baker, the food historian for the BBC’s Hairy Bikers, will be launching the celebration of local produce which has been organised by Probe’s Big Lottery Fund-backed Food 360 project and St Aidan’s Cafe, Southcoates Avenue. Gerard will be preparing special local and seasonal food dishes on Monday 13 June from 7.30pm. Tickets cost £3 from the Church.
Reverend Mick Fryer from St Aidan’s says: “Gerard cooked for a packed house when we hosted Probe’s first Food Week last year and it was so successful that we wanted to invite him back.”
Gerard has been a big ambassador of Food 360, the Big Lottery Fund-backed initiative to encourage East Hull people to grow and eat local food. He cooked at the project’s launch event a year ago and was among the chefs to stage a cookery demonstration at the first-ever national Edible Garden Show in March.
Youngsters at the Church’s Adults, Babies and Children’s (ABC) Group will sample a range of dishes during their normal sessions, and the Pre-School will be enjoying making pizzas during the week. There will also be a lunchtime barbecue on Tuesday outside the cafe from 11.30am until 1pm.
Singer and musician Antoine Robinson will be entertaining the audience during a special midweek social evening of food-tasting on the Wednesday. The 42-year-old father of two from Summergangs Road is forging a career as a musician after his IT job in local government ended in March. Antoine will be handing his playlist over to the guests to choose from. Tickets for this social evening are £3 but St Aidan’s is offering a combined ticket with the Gerard Baker event on the Monday for £5.
The Food 360 project has spent the last year promoting local food and encouraging East Hull residents to grow their own produce, and as a result enjoy the benefits of saving money and eating better-tasting.
Adrian Fisher, Food 360’s project co-ordinator, says: “We’re bringing in food from about a dozen suppliers in Hull and around East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The St Aidan’s event is the biggest of our local food weeks where we’ll be doing tasting sessions with groups of different ages, special cafe menus, a barbecue and the Gerard Baker cookery demonstration. We’ll also be displaying Probe’s new Square Metre Garden which makes food-growing more accessible.”
Details of the event can be found at www.staidans.org.uk or follow Food 360 on Twitter @food360hull.
Gerard has been a big ambassador of Food 360, the Big Lottery Fund-backed initiative to encourage East Hull people to grow and eat local food. He cooked at the project’s launch event a year ago and was among the chefs to stage a cookery demonstration at the first-ever national Edible Garden Show in March.
Youngsters at the Church’s Adults, Babies and Children’s (ABC) Group will sample a range of dishes during their normal sessions, and the Pre-School will be enjoying making pizzas during the week. There will also be a lunchtime barbecue on Tuesday outside the cafe from 11.30am until 1pm.
Singer and musician Antoine Robinson will be entertaining the audience during a special midweek social evening of food-tasting on the Wednesday. The 42-year-old father of two from Summergangs Road is forging a career as a musician after his IT job in local government ended in March. Antoine will be handing his playlist over to the guests to choose from. Tickets for this social evening are £3 but St Aidan’s is offering a combined ticket with the Gerard Baker event on the Monday for £5.
The Food 360 project has spent the last year promoting local food and encouraging East Hull residents to grow their own produce, and as a result enjoy the benefits of saving money and eating better-tasting.
Adrian Fisher, Food 360’s project co-ordinator, says: “We’re bringing in food from about a dozen suppliers in Hull and around East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The St Aidan’s event is the biggest of our local food weeks where we’ll be doing tasting sessions with groups of different ages, special cafe menus, a barbecue and the Gerard Baker cookery demonstration. We’ll also be displaying Probe’s new Square Metre Garden which makes food-growing more accessible.”
Details of the event can be found at www.staidans.org.uk or follow Food 360 on Twitter @food360hull.
Wansbeck Allotment Association - a growing community in East Hull.
Wansbeck Allotment Association, on the Longhill estate in east Hull, has enjoyed considerable funding success in recent years partly due to their vision for creating a community-focused site. Their latest success has been to attract National Lottery attention for their plans to create an environmentally friendly composting toilet for allotment holders and visitors. It is hoped that this cutting edge facility will be operational in the next few months.
Margaret Cranwell, the association's hard-working secretary, showed us around the secluded site on a fine and sunny morning, chatting with us about their successes and future plans.
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Margaret Cranwell, the association's hard-working secretary, showed us around the secluded site on a fine and sunny morning, chatting with us about their successes and future plans.
[11.05.2011]
East Hull Community Farm - Open Day Report
Mr Steve Alltoft, Chair of Trustees at East Hull Community Farm, gives his reaction to a successful Open Day held on 7th May.
775 people attended the day to learn more about the farm and its plans for the future.
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