Harvest Brighton Events and Upcoming Courses
15/05/2012

http://www.harvest-bh.org.uk

From window boxes to community allotments, there are opportunities for everyone to join in. Harvest has brought together lots of different organisations interested in food who will help you learn to grow your own, make use of surplus produce and eat more tasty local food.

What Harvest aims to achieve:

• Increase the space available to grow food
• Help people have better access to local food
• Increase the skills and confidence of local people in growing their own food
• Increase awareness of the benefits of growing, buying and eating local produce
• Help develop strategies and guidance that support growing food within the city. Other cities and towns will be able to use these documents as a model for their own work.

We are working with our partners to increase the amount of food grown in the city: on windowsills, in back gardens, in allotments, and in community spaces like parks and around housing estates. We’ll be scrumping apples from trees around the city to prevent waste and make delicious juices and chutneys. And we’ll be running a programme to redistribute surplus allotment produce to community food projects like lunch clubs and cookery sessions. There will be plenty of opportunities to get involved: through volunteering at a project, coming on a training course, or attending one of our community food events.

If you want to learn how to grow some of your own food or already do, or if you want to eat more local food, then Harvest is for you!

Upcoming Events and Training 2012

Harvest Training

North Portslade Community Allotment Open DayDate: 19 May, 2012
Mile Oak allotments, Between Gorse Close and Overdown Rise, Portslade BN41 2YX(UK)Free

Scything Course (with Beth Tilston) Date: 20 May, 2012
Whitehouse Farm, Station Road, Plumpton BN7 3BT (UK) Free

Spring Seedling Swap Date: 20 May, 2012
behind the Rotunda Cafe, Preston Park, Brighton BN1 6HN (uk)Free

Networking event for food projects Date: 22 May, 2012
Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, Brighton BN2 9UD (UK)Free

Volunteer workday at the vegetable garden in Preston Park Date: 25 May, 2012
behind the Rotunda Cafe, Preston Park, Brighton BN1 6HN (uk)Free

Urban beekeeping (at the Coachhouse )Date: 27 May, 2012
The Coach House, 22 Walpole Road, Brighton BN2 0EA (UK)£ 30.00

Volunteer workday at the vegetable garden in Preston Park Date: 28 May, 2012
behind the Rotunda Cafe, Preston Park, Brighton BN1 6HN (uk)Free

Horticulture courses at Plumpton College Date: 31 May, 2012
Stanmer Park, Brighton BN1 9PZ (UK)Free

The science of bees (LASI outreach workshops) Start: 08 Jun, 2012 16 Jun, 2012, Brighton (UK)Free

Beekeeping workshop (Garden House event) Date: 09 Jun, 2012
The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT (UK)£ 60.00

School gardens meeting Date: 12 Jun, 2012
Somerhill Junior School, Somerhill Road, Hove BN3 1RP (UK)Free

Foraging and brewing workshop with Andy Hamilton Date: 16 Jun, 2012
Stanmer Park, Brighton BN1 9PZ (UK)£ 30.00

Wild Fermenting Date: 19 Jun, 2012
Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF (UK)£ 10.00

Garden Gadabout Start: 23 Jun, 2012 10:00
End: 24 Jun, 2012 16:00Various, Brighton (UK)£ 2.00

City in Bloom competition deadline 2012 Date: 29 Jun, 2012 Brighton (UK)Free

http://www.harvest-bh.org.uk

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