This year sees the launch of our fabulous new area, Love Book. Come and sit in our library and read some books, swap recipes, cooking and gardening tips or buy some uniquely signed cookery books from the bookshop.
There will be a series of educational talks on a variety of current and environmental issues as well as Love Food's much loved soap box for anyone to have a rant about global issues close to their heart. With opportunities to chat to and question chefs fresh from the cookery school's stage, Love Book will create a fresh and relaxing way to interact and be inspired into trying out new cookery styles and techniques by talking to chefs and environmentalists in a non-intimidating atmosphere.
With story-telling and workshops for the younger ages our new Love Book section will provide everything needed to educate and inspire genuine change.
Here's a taster of what you can expect in this fantastic new area.
(from BBC2s 'It's Not Easy Being Green) writes, talks and campaigns to raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity and other environmental and ethical issues. She is especially passionate about our native bees and spends much of her time observing the symbiotic relationship between bees and flowers in her 'pollinators garden' - and on the Malvern Hills, where she lives.
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The Bristol branch of Waterstones will be on hand with a fab array of cookery books, gardening books, childrens stories, books about the environment, great walks to do, nature books, preserving and much more. They will have a stock of all the books by our cookery school chefs so you can get a signed copy to treasure forever. Long live the book!
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Tom and Henry will be signing copies of their fab new book and answering your baking questions in the Love Book area, come along and meet them.
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We are very excited that Robin will be sharing his enourmous passion and wealth of knowledge on Wild Food.
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Max Drake. The paleolithic diet. For several years I have co-ordinated groups of people engaged in various elimination diet programmes, usually to try and identify hidden allergies, or to simply observe the effects that different foods have on one's sense of physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. As a practising Medical Herbalist, I noticed how difficult it is for people to change their dietary habits, and to really engage with self-observation in order to glean any meaningful information.
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Resource Futures. Resource Futures is a not for profit environmental company supporting May Gurney (waste contractors for Bristol City Council) in the roll out of their improved waste and recycling scheme in Bristol. The new services will bring mixed plastic and Tetra Pak collections to all of Bristol’s households, as well as helping to reduce the amount of waste we throw away. Our role is to promote the service and help residents with any queries they may have regarding the improvement. |
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Enlightened Eating - The way we source, prepare and consume food, defines the interest we have in our body/life, afterall chances are, some part of the food we consume, becomes an element of our system forever!
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Multi award winning chef Rachel Demuth will be signing copies of her book and answering your questions, come and meet this fantastic lady! |
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Real money made for Bristol. It is designed to support independent businesses in and around Bristol, retaining and multiplying the benefit of every pound spent for ordinary people and businesses.
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Bristol is the first city to have it's own Food Policy Council. Come along and find out about all the great work they are doing. |
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A registered charity which is independent of any political party or movement.We rely on donations, fees and subscriptions to carry out our work. Our aim is to educate children and young people about food and farming in a sustainable countryside. |
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Explore. Imagine. Create. Connect. Give Back. That's what Barefoot Books is all about. It's exploring other cultures, our planet, ourselves. It's making time for make-believe and letting imaginations run wild and free. Most of all, it's about using the power of stories to nourish the creative spark in everyone and strengthen connections with family, the global community, and the earth. |
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The Bristol Pound 
The Bristol Food Policy Council.
Barefoot Books.
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