Feast Bowland 2024: Celebrating Local Food and Heritage

A festival of food heritage and local produce during a week of Feast Bowland events

The annual Feast Bowland week returns from September 21 to 27, offering a week-long celebration of the rich culinary heritage and local produce found across the Forest of Bowland.

This year’s events promise a variety of activities, including guided walks, foraging, picnics, dark sky explorations and food tours, providing participants with a unique opportunity to engage with Bowland’s outstanding food culture.

Elderberries and seasonal, foraged fruits

Event Highlights:

  • Picnic & Play in the Park: Kick off the festivities on September 21 with a family-friendly picnic and outdoor games at Dunsop Bridge.
  • Foraging and Wellbeing Wander: Join us September 23 for a foraging wander in Barley, exploring the benefits and uses of local plants, trees, and mushrooms.
  • Herbal Medicine Walk: On September 24, learn about herbalism and wild foods during a guided walk and workshop at Barrowford Heritage Centre.
  • Bowland and Bay Food Tours: Experience the best of Bowland produce with artisan food tours on September 25, featuring cheese tasting, craft gin, and more starting in Clitheroe.
  • Elderberry Jam Making: Join the Lovely Cow Shed on Jeffrey Hill for an elderberry forage around the farm on September 25,  followed by a jam-making session using your foraged goods.
  • Foraging for All in Gisburn Forest: On September 25, discover the edible treasures of Gisburn Forest and reconnect with nature on our Foraging for All and wellbeing wander.
Pendle Peat Pie
Pendle Peat Pie
  • Pendle Skies and Peat Pie: An exciting evening of dark sky discovery on September 26 with a talk by local astro-photographer, Lee Hunt.  He’ll take us on a virtual journey through the night skies of Pendle, accompanied by the delectable Bowland Peat Pie!
  • Autumn Foraging at Middlewood: We wrap up the week on September 27 and discover all there is on offer across organic meadows and temperate rainforest in the beautiful Roeburndale woodlands. 

Hetty Byrne, Forest of Bowland Sustainable Tourism Officer said:

‘We’re excited to be linking with some excellent providers once again to celebrate the wonderful local produce and wild foods found across Bowland.  We want to make our events accessible and inclusive to all, which is why some are free, or low-cost,  and, where possible, subsidised to make external events more affordable.  Hopefully, there will be something of interest for everyone’.

For further information and booking details visit: www.forestofbowland.com/feast-bowland-2024

Pendle Peat Pie

Posted
22nd August 2024
in News