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Women's Environmental Network
'Cycle of Life' feast for ethnic minority food-growing network
Brady Arts & Community Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Stret, Whitechapel, London E1
Food projects feast on cycle of life : Thursday 24 October 2002 : 12 noon to 5 pm
- 'Cycle of Life' is a celebratory feast by members of WEN's organic food
growing and composting groups.
- Women and children from across the country are bringing food, spices, herbs
and enthusiasm, for a great cook-in at the Brady Arts and Community Centre in
Whitechapel, East London.
- Members of ethnic-minority growing groups as far
apart as Glasgow, Bradford Luton, Croydon and Sussex are expected to attend,
as well as groups from Tower Hamlets and Kings Cross, London.
- While some chop and prepare food under the guidance of cuisinere Miche Fabre
Lewin, others will visit a nearby garden.
- Members have been encouraged to bring displays about their projects and after the feast there will be a workshop to share ideas and inspiration.
- The feast is a celebration of the cyclical nature of growing your own food
organically: composting kitchen and garden scraps feeds the earth for the
food we eat; growing organically works with the cycles of nature.
- Women's Environmental Network (WEN) is a national charity and membership
organisation which campaigns on environmental and health issues from a women
's perspective. It educates, informs and empowers women and men who care
about the environment.
- The 'Taste of a Better Future' Network was set up three years ago to help
ethnic minority women's groups develop organic food growing skills. It
recognises that such groups have little access to affordable organic food,
particularly traditional fruit and vegetable varieties, or to gardens of
their own. Over the last three years, the 30+ groups in the Network have
brought new life to some of the most unlikely spaces on housing estates and
disused inner city plots. As well as nutritious food, they have enjoyed
making new friends, sharing skills and bolstering their communities. The
current project, 'cultivating the future', is helping the groups share and
develop composting skills.
- Cultivating the Future is supported by the SEED Programme and the New
Opportunities Fund. The Feast is funded by St Katharine and Shadwell Trust
- Miche Fabre Lewin is a professional cuisinere, who draws on the healing
and nutritional traditions of Chinese, French and Zen cuisine.
- Photographers and reporters are welcome to attend. Contact: Caroline Fernandez - Local Food Project Coordinator
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