Food heroes
Over the past three years we ran a series of food workshops which allowed us to cook and share vegetables and fruit from our greenhouse. Local people were paid to teach about the food they know and love during:

• food hero sessions where people taught each other
• parents and young children cooked together at the Mulberry Centre during our breakfast family cook and eat sessions
• retired people enjoyed a weekly lunch
• children from Loughborough primary school picked our veg, cooked and ate it together at the depot
• parents taught people how to cook simple meals (see here for recipes and photographs)
• Cook Like a Caribbean: local people traced the history of Caribbean food . See here for the video of the sessions.

We are very grateful to the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food fund which paid for this programme. Thanks to this funding, we had three great years learning about different foods, making new friendships and meeting a lot of new people. 

Please visit our Myatt's Food Group blog to see recipes and descriptions of these sessions. Gary McQuiggin has made two short films: one about the Retired People's Lunch Club and another one about all other food sessions. 

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