The Garden Museum Harvest Festival is a day of stalls, talks and workshops inviting visitors to learn, discover and connect over the role that growing and food has to play in the modern world.
From the soil beneath our feet to the people around our table, from cultural traditions to childhood memories, food helps connect us to nature, to community, and to ourselves. This year, in collaboration with felloe, the Harvest Festival is curated around the theme of ‘Common Ground’ — a celebration of the many meaningful ways food connects us. At the same time, we’ll explore how these vital connections are increasingly at risk, even as they become more important than ever.
Join us round the kitchen counter in our Learning Studio Kitchen for live interactive cooking demos including e5 Bakehouse milling heritage wheat and making sourdough crackers from the fresh flour, and a live biangbiang noodle-pulling demo with the star of Netflix’s Chef’s Table, Guirong Wei.
Gatherings and talks (bookings open soon!) in our Clore Learning Space will look at our shared food rituals of breaking bread, how top chefs design menus rooted in the rhythms of growing and shaped by the seasons, and how we might rekindle reciprocity with the land through our relationship with trees.
Producers, growers and makers setting up stalls in the Nave will include Natoora, Bold Bean Co, e5 bakehouse and The Ferm; alongside a live performance from the London Vegetable Orchestra, playing instruments crafted entirely from vegetables.
