Join Dee for a live cook-along using seasonal veg from the Granville Community Kitchen's Good Food Box.

Dee will be guiding us step-by-step to creating a nourishing and delicious meal while she shares her passion for food, nature and community.

We will email you with a list of ingredients you will need using the email you provide when booking the workshop.

FACILITATOR BIO

Deirdre (Dee) Woods is a food and farming action-ist who advocates for good food for all and a just, equitable food system, challenging the systemic barriers that impact marginalised communities and food . Dee is also the co-founder of the Granville Community Kitchen. GCK is an ethical, sustainable, culturally diverse community food hub offering food-centred activities, services, education and training that is accessible, family-friendly and open to all. They place the most disaffected at the centre, co-creating a local response to social issues whilst building capacity and lifting voices to advocate for structural change at local, national and international levels.

THE BLOOM SERIES

In the context of the current global pandemic and the biggest civil rights movement in modern history, ‘Black Lives Matter,’ we know that many people in our local community and beyond are experiencing challenging times. Although everyone has a right to access nature and we know many people from lesser-heard communities do, we also know that many green spaces and community gardens aren’t always safe spaces for everyone and we want to start to address this. We have felt the benefits that nature and gardening can bring and understand that creating inclusive spaces will make the whole community physically, mentally, socially and politically healthier. After all, diversity is nature’s way!

The Bloom series connects with outstanding Black gardeners, herbalists and other nature facilitators to bring you a series of six online events that will focus on ways that nature can help us to connect with ourselves and each other and bring about a sense of community wellness in challenging times like these. We will be looking at ways to cultivate joy and stay well as the seasons change by exploring topics from wellness in nature to storytelling through food. We are so excited to introduce our programme of brilliant speakers and facilitators.

Series curated by Giselle Richelieu of Black Girls Bloom.