Brockwell Bake #2, the Food and Garden zone, URBAN GREEN FAIR Brockwell Park, London, September 20th 2009

BROCKWELL BAKE harvesting and harvesters' "BAKE IN"

11am - 7pm, Sunday, 5th September, Lambeth Urban Green Fair, Brockwell Park

Join the Brockwell Bake Association for our third annual real baking event. This year at Lambeth Urban Green Fair we will be starting the processing of our own Lambeth grown first hertiage wheat crop. With your help we will be threshing, winnowing, milling and baking. We invite you to bake something to bring along to feed the harvesters "BAKE IN" ENTRY FORM here - who will get a chance to score whose baking they most appreciated. Professional bakers and millers will also award a judge's best in show.

BROCKWELL BAKE @ the Feast on the Bridge

12pm - 8pm, Saturday, 11th September, Southwark Bridge

We continue processing our first local wheat harvest at the fabulous "Feast on the Bridge" event wich is part of the Mayor's Thames Festival on Saturday, September 11th. Southwark Bridge will be closed to traffic for the day and tables and chairs to seat over a 1,00 people at a time are set up and surrounded by local food creations and activities.

Local primary schools who have sown heritage spring wheat with us from the UK Small Cereals Collection, the John Innes Centre will be bringing their harvest to the bridge.

We will be inviting fellow feasters to help us thresh out, winnow, mill, seive and finally bake our wheat. The Rumpelstiltskin Thatching Company will be demonstrating thatching with our straw as well as corn dolly making and lip work.

Contact us if you would like to volunteer to help in our area of the Feast on the Bridge.

URBAN WHEAT ... harvesting now!

Spring 2010 sown crops gallery here
Winter 2009 sown crops gallery here

Traditional wheat from Madeira provided to Brockwell Bake by Rosendale allotment holder Antonio Luis

Wheat is being harvested in the Lambeth and Southwark area including samples of early cultivar and UK landraces of spring wheat from the BBSRC - Small Grain Cereal Collections at the following locations.
Community Gardens and Farms, Hyde Farm Community Garden SW12 Arden House, Lambeth Walk SE11 5QH, Community Garden Mayow Park Sydenham SE26, Brookwood House Council Estate Community Garden, Southwark SE1, Guinness Trust Estate Allotments Brixton SW9, The Onion Shed @ Roots and Shoots SE11 6DN, Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses SE24 9BJ, Vauxhall City Farm (with local Primary School) SE11 5HS, Cowley Estate Farm SW9 6LZ, Sutton Community Farm SM6 0SH, Myatt's Fields Park Project Group SE5
Schools and Colleges, Rosendale Primary School SE21 8LR, Friars Primary Foundation School SE1 0RF, Walnut Tree Walk Primary School SE11 6DS, Reay Primary School SW9 0EN, Streatham and Clapham High School SW16 1AW, Hackney Community College N1 6HQ, Sprouting 56 - Camberwell School of Arts SE5 8UF

Teacher's guidance notes for wheat sowing here (suitable for all Primary School ages)

Brockwell Bake Spring collection 2010

The following "heritage" spring wheats have been obtained from the John Innes Centre's BBSRC Small Grain Cereal Collections for demonstration sowings by Brockwell Bake on school and community garden projects. Click on images for larger versions.
Swedish version of "April Bearded" all of which are the most likely candidates to be true landraces within our 2010 spring collection - see also the English and the Welsh Les meilleurs blés URL here	Welsh version of "April Bearded" all of which are the most likely candidates to be true landraces within our 2010 spring selection. This one maybe the most landrace of the bunch (see also the English and the Swedish)	English version of "April Bearded" all of which are the most likely candidates to be true landraces within our 2010 spring selection	French origin found near Mont-Saint-Michel by Henry Vilmorin and introduced commercially in France 1892 Les meilleurs blés URL here
English release of Japhet, 1902	Introduced from Spain to the UK around 1830 by Colonel Couteur of Jersey, one of earliest English wheat breeders Les meilleurs blés URL here. Fine very light grain, abundant tiller.	Name would indicate a French Vilmorin/INRA accession to JIC collection but with an English origin, but then possibly derived Red Danzig according to Les meilleurs blés	Wheat much imported from the Baltic Hanseatic port of Danzig (now Gdansk) and therefore tried in UK a lot around the 1830s
Selection by Marsters of Norfolk from Vilmorin’s Ble des Allies - introduced 1921, some black point showing	the wheat that made the reputation of Canadian wheat for bread making, bred by David Fife in 1861 from grain from Eastern Galicia, Poland via Scotland via Germany, popular in Canada from 1860-1900 till Marquis. Brought back from collection status to be well known "heritage" wheat in Canada and commercially valuable again	a selection from Red Fife	A selection for Spring sowing from the wheat found in 1830 by a Mr Hickling of Carston in Norfolk Les meilleurs blés URL here
Big success for Vilmorin, cross from 1898 between Ble Gros Bleu and Autumn Chidham White Les meilleurs blés URL here	One of the corner stones of the French seed merchant firm of Vilmorin’s wheat breeding (and therefore modern wheat), reportedly introduced to France (Gers Region) around 1830 maybe from Odessa Les meilleurs blés URL here	Atle, Swedish cross Extra Kolben 2*Saxo popular in the UK in the 1960’s - good bread making	Cross of the old Spring wheat "April Bearded" and one of the most successful bread making varieties of the early 20th C "Yeoman"

Brockwell Bake events 2010

Sun. 5th September	Lambeth Urban Green Fair Our key established event with the annual baking competition and the start of processing of our first harvest and kids pizza making for full UGF programme see here		Brockwell Park, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PA
Sat. 11th September	Feast on the Bridge, The Mayor's Thames Festival New event for Brockwell Bake on Southwark Bridge (closed!) threshing, winnowing, milling and baking wheat harvest from schools and community gardens who we have worked with during the year. More about the Feast on the Bridge here		Southwark Bridge, closed for the day
Sat. 18th September	Cowley Estate Community Farm Brockwell Bake will assist		Brixton Road

Thanks to all who made Brockwell Bake 2009 such a good occasion.

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