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Firstly I’d like to take the opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year, thank you so much to everyone who came along to the Festive Market and helped make it such a fantastic success, I hope you all enjoyed the amazing food and gifts that were on offer, with Christmas done and dusted for another year I’m busy making plans for 2010.

 

The first event of the year will be a Valentines Day special, another day which lends itself spectacularly to celebrating our love for food. All the usual treats will be on offer with a focus on romantic and aphrodisiac foods and gifts. An extended therapy area will give the chance to pamper yourself and your loved ones and a fantastic art exhibition from Bristol’s new and exciting collective ‘Red Spot Art’ will give you plenty to feast your eyes upon. Delicious traditional High Tea will be served on fine vintage china. Afternoon tea as it should be. The very talented DearLove string quartet will provide the soundtrack for what promises to be a wonderfully elegant and sumptuous affair.

 

Plans are also well underway for "The Spring Festival" this exciting event will be held at Brunel’s old station at the end of March, please click on the link to find out all about it.

 

What it's all about

The aim of the festival is to get children (and adults) from Bristol, out into the countryside learning about how and where our food should come from, how to grow and cook their own food and generally try to spark an interest in the topic through various mediums including hands on experience, tasting, art, movement and storytelling.

 

Teachers from local schools will be invited along with local families, Countryside education agencies, chefs, farmers will all be brought together to learn what resources are available to us and how we can work together to best use and preserve our wonderful countryside.

 

I was lucky enough to grow up in the Dorset countryside having all these benefits from a young age. It has certainly filled me with a real passion and protectiveness for farming and for the land itself. Food really is so important in our daily lives and we have some how lost sight of the connection between our food and where it comes from. The aim of Love Food is to build and to encourage this link in every way possible for customers to learn from suppliers and for suppliers to learn from customers.