Aligning food culture with environmental values
Foodscapes is a Birmingham based food & urbanism consultancy. We deliver food systems and placemaking projects in community and regeneration settings.
Through Ways of Eating, we offer networking and classes in food skills such as tastings, workshops and talks. we offer Artisan food products to make or buy.
Our story
Jayne Bradley, the founder of Foodscapes, started her career in arts & urban regeneration, programming arts in redevelopment projects. In 2009, after graduating with an MSc in Food Policy, she shifted her interests to food & urbanism and opened Edible Eastside in Digbeth.
Edible Eastside was a pioneering urban food garden established on a ½ acre former gas filling station, by the Grand Union canal. It invited people to grow their own food in rented plots and ran an arts and education programme within the garden.
The site was run as a social enterprise. It was an innovatory model for re-purposing land and captured the imagination for achieving a culture-led sustainable city.
Edible Eastside to Foodscapes via Kitchen School
Overlapping Edible Eastside, we started Kitchen School. Whilst we were teaching people to grow their own food, we quickly found out they didn’t know how to cook it. Thus Kitchen School started at Jayne’s home, then moved to Edible Eastside.
It was enormous fun. Teaching adults and children how to improve their culinary skills. Our strapline ran, reveal your inner chef.
Foodscapes in 2024
Foodscapes brings together our strategic thinking and planning in food & urbanism, with our interests in food system, our skills in teaching food skills, horticulture and promoting artisan producers.
Ways of Eating Events
Each Month we hold an evening event to explore our understanding of food
On Thursday evening you can join us at our studio for talks or classes about food.
We will host short cookery classes, such as cheese, fermenting or bread. We will lead masterclasses in tasting flavour development.
Food & drink producers will be invited to share their work.
We will seek out speakers to discuss their latest book, recipes or essay with us.
Or maybe you have a food project to share with the world? Ask for a spot in our programme.
At Ways of Eating, we teach you how to let the ingredients sing.
Check out our blog for articles, recipes, and reviews where we delve into current topics around the food system.
Launch of Ways of Eating
22/06/24
27/06/24
Fermenting for Health
25/07/24
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