Celebrating the Food from Bromyard
Foodscapes is a Food & Place consultancy.
We host events, tasting and markets with a focus on the best local food.
My 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 today
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.
