A round-up of events and workshops. Get in touch to list your event.
Community Apple Pressing Day
5B Florence Road, Industrial Estate, Callington, PL17 8EX
Saturday September 19, 9.30am-1.30pm
Tamar Grow Local and Tamar Valley Food Hubs are hosting a community apple pressing event where local people can bring their apples along to be pressed for a donation, with a limit of 100kg per household to ensure everyone can be accommodated. Those with larger quantities are encouraged to contact the organisers to discuss other options. The final pressing will take place at 1.30pm, and attendees should remember to bring containers to take their fresh apple juice home. More information here.
How to Set Up a Resilient Community Orchard
Food Troops Community Kitchen and Garden, Victoria Park, Redruth, TR15 2JF
Saturday September 19, 10am-2pm
Learn how to set up and manage a community orchard, from choosing a suitable site and sourcing fruit trees to securing funding and involving the community. This workshop will explore how community orchards can bring people together, improve biodiversity and strengthen local food supplies. The session will combine discussion, group work and a visit to a community orchard. Facilitated by Meike Weiser and Michelle Lawson, who have extensive experience establishing and advising community orchards in Cornwall and beyond. Book a place here.
Truro Food Festival
Lemon Quay, TR1 2LW
September 23-27
Truro Food Festival returns, bringing together some of the best food and drink Cornwall has to offer. The festival will feature local producers, Cornish chefs and a programme of live music, creating a lively celebration of the county’s food and drink scene. The programme is here.
Derek v Derek screenings
Venues across Cornwall
Screenings thoughout the autumn
99p Films will be bringing the award winning documentary Derek vs Derek to venues across Cornwall this autumn. The film is about two neighbouring Devon farmers with very different visions for the future of the countryside. Dairy farmer Derek Banbury champions intensive food production, while Derek Gow is rewilding his farm and restoring wildlife. As their approaches collide, the film explores a bigger question facing rural Britain: can we farm for food while restoring nature? Funny, thought-provoking and heartwarming, it brings farmers and the wider community together to consider how we might shape the future of our land and food system. We’re delighted to share that some screenings will feature a snippet of our own short film about our Joining the Dots (for Nature) project focusing on agroecological growing in Cornwall. Buy tickets here.