The next SFB event will be on 2 August.  This all-day event starts with a 10.30 pick-up from Castle Road.  It includes a visit to Edible Ornamentals (with tastings) and Villa Nurseries (with tour of the greenhouses).  The day finishes with a five-course meal on an asian theme using chillis from the farm.

Details: Asian Chill Event

Seeds of Change has initiated a new campaign, Dig Your Dinner, to encourage people to grow forgotten varieties of vegetables.  Seeds of Change is giving one per cent of sales to Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library.   Raymond Blanc and Kim Wilde are backing the campaign.

SFB members Joanna & Shaun of Edible Ornamentals will have a stall at Bedford’s Farmers’ Market on the 2nd Thursday of each month.  The next Farmers’ Market is on Thursday 10th July.

The 2nd Anniversary celebration will be held on 19th July at 19.30.  The Devonshire Arms will host the events as well.  The SFB Committee will be reporting on our Project 2008 events and activities for the new quarter.

This event is free for all members and will feature local producers, Ark of Taste and Presidia produce in an alfresco feast with a complimentary glass of wine make by Paul Miller from grapes donated to SFB by The Barford Hall Estate. 

SFB members should already have received the email invitation to this event.  Remember you need to reply to Sue by Monday 14th July. 

Event details: 2nd Anniversay & AGM

The Plough at Bolnhurst will be hosting a real ale week.  It starts on Tuesday 1 July and finishes on Sunday 6 July.  Beers from the Potton Brewery Company, Adnams Brewery (Suffolk) and Buntingford Brewery (Hertfordshire) will be available from the Ploughs hand pumps. 

As an additional special event, the Plough will be hosting a Pint & Clanger Night on Thursday 3rd July.  Entry costs £5.  The clangers will be homemade from a traditional recipe.

Slow Food Bedford had the great honour of hosting a meeting of minds at The Plough in Wavendon on 28 April.  The meal was organised to welcome the international delegates attending a two-day food seminar at the OU, including the Director of Gastronomique Sciences.  The menu included Ark of Taste cheeses, oysters from Mersea, Oakley lamb and Franklins’ chickens. 

The event was very successful and even attracted coverage in the Bedfordshire on Sunday. 

The SFB Committee is delighted to present the winner of the first SFB Project 2008 competition.  When Lower Brickhill School visited our allotment and the Parkwood Orchard, the children were asked to create a picture to summarise what ’slow food’ means. 

And the winner was Erika.  Click here to see her delightful picture.

SFUK gave bursaries to enable six producers who exemplify the ‘Good, Clean & Fair’ definition of quality to attend the summer BBC Good Food Show held at the NEC last week. 

Details: SF Winners

Here is a recent artcle from the Guardian’s business section.  It raises several interesting questions about defining ‘local’ food.

You are currently looking at the new Slow Food Bedford website, which is underdevelopment.  If you would like to look at the SFB web archive, please look at our old site.  (We will, hopefully, be able to transfer the content into this new site soon.)