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
Ways of Eating is a club for food-minded people.
You join our club by becoming a member, paying a monthly fee for access to our space and its facilities. Included in the membership is a space to work, study or hang out. You can use a desk for a day or an hour. For a small additional fee you can hire the space for your event, tasting workshop, private dinner.
As a member you can join in our monthly events including talks, tastings, suppers and workshops.
We will introduce you to broad food concepts to develop a deeper understanding and knowledge of food and its’ cultural and climate impacts.
Launch event Thursday 25th July at 6.30pm where you can find out more. RSVP here
As we programme events, we will be adding them to the website.
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.
06/07/24
19/06/24
Slow Food AGM, Kilo Ziro Digbeth
25/07/24
Launch of Ways of Eating