Sonja, Sarah-Jane and Becky (with moral support from Tom) ran a series of demos and tastings today by the LIFF ‘Indoor Allotment’ in the Food Hall; on flavoured teas and waters, how to dress a salad, and seed sowing into paper pots. We created a recipe leaflet with info on Feed leeds and partners Season Well, Leeds Food Partnership – as part of the Leeds Indie Food Festival.
This was not quite as well-attended as we’d hoped, due to some family occasion in Windsor, but the display was most impressive, with hot flasks and pots of nettle, mint and lemon balm teas, strawberry/blueberry, mint/cucumber and ginger/rhubarb waters, seed-pot-making with newspapers and formers, salads tossing with edible flowers and more – and we met dozens of Leeds folks who sipped and tasted, told us about their growing successes, failures and ambitions – and some we were able to suggest community projects or allotment sites they could approach to help them get started on growing and making lovely fresh healthy food at home.
A very worthwhile exercise and one we aim to repeat often!
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