URBAN GREEN FAIR - Food and Garden Zone

 


There will be sections for both professional and amateur bakers with categories for sourdough, white, brown, non-wheat and speciality breads plus pastries and tarts, cakes and pies. Each category is being sponsored by one of the remaining water or wind powered flours mill of the British Isles (members of the Traditional Cormillers Guild and winners will receive samples of the mill's flours. After judging awards will be presented for each category in pro and amateur sections and an overall show award made. The recipes for winning entries will also be published online.

Chair of judges will be well known advocate for “real bread” Dan Leppard assisted by lay judge local activist Peter Tatchell, local artist and restaurateur Bridget Hugo and from Lincolnshire miller/baker couple Mervin and Marie-Christine Austin.

There will be a “Best in show” award of trophy + £75 sponsored by wind powered electricity company Ecotricity, “Best amateur loaf” awards of trophy + £40 sponsored by wholefood distributor Suma and Best pro loaf” sponsored by Brixton Sourdough wood-fired pizzeria Franco Manca plus a trophy and £20 and a signed copy of Dan’s book “The Handmade Loaf” for "Best young baker" (16 or under) sponsored by local health food shop Brixton Wholefoods. There will be accompanying talks by experts on sourdough baking and cob oven building as well as a panel discussion of the state of London baking.

To enter your bread at the 1st annual Brockwell Bake please complete the form at http://www.brockwell-bake.org.uk before August 23rd.

 









REAL BAKE OFF!

Trophy plus £75 for "Best in show"

Bread baking both at home and artisanal professional baking has undergone a steady revival in recent years in reaction to the tedium and additives issues of mass produced industrialised bread.

To encourage this revival locally, the 1st annual Brockwell Bake will be held in the Food and Garden Zone and will be your chance to put your best bread forward to the public in friendly competition.

 







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FOOD AND GARDEN ZONE
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The Food and Garden Zone focusses on the availability of space, and growing food locally. The emphasis is on peoples' gardens and why cars should never take precedence over them.

There are a variety of useful talks and demonstrations. Some are fun, others show how creativity and community are central to harmonious living. This year we have the finals of the Real Bake Off! Competition, a fruit and vegetable competition, apple pressing, bee's waz candle and chutney making. We have speakers from Zaytoun, Fairtrade and talk on Bees with a guided tour of the hives. If you like food, and want to learn more about it, this is the Zone for you!

The Passionfruit Front Garden will be built around a mock facade of a home featuring a front door behind a small porch with a green roof. To one side there will be a pergola car port shrouded with decorative plants. It is not Passionfruit's intention to encourage the use of the front garden as car park, rather to tackle the impacts where such a choice has already been made. The surface of the garden is made up of sections of reclaimed York Stone as stepping stones or tyre tracks set whithin a loose rain permeable layer of 10mm shingle and stones seived from garden soil. The garden will have two types of planting.

Permaculture is a system for sustainability. It is a very relevant tool in urban environments because cities are inhabited by up to 80% of the national population. Due to the concentration of wealth and power there, most decisions affect the availability of resources to the masses, including labour, energy and material needs. It is imperative that permaculture plays a major role in the fair distribution of wealth and equality of all individuals whilst holding at its core the needs of the earth. Its methodology is quite simple: Work with nature.

This should be a bumper year, but it only works with volunteers. Anybody wanting to get involved with the organisation should contact SLP on 0845 458 1734 or eight.merlyn@virgin.net. We are also looking for props, and hope to run some competitions including growing food in the small possible space. There will also be a design contest for schools of various age groups to enter. For further details on getting involved and offering workshops or demonstrations please contact us as soon as possible.