The Big Dig Day will be taking place on Saturday 16th March 2013 and will involve approximately 200 community food-growing gardens across 22 cities/towns in the UK. This is a great opportunity for people to get down to their local garden and get their hands dirty, learn something new and hopefully decide to continue to help throughout the growing season.
Cafe Weymouth is a small, family-run cafe on the edge of Weymouth town centre, within a minutes walk from the seafront. Serving beautiful handmade coffees, mochas, hot chocolates and Clipper teas, they also use a large proportion of locally sourced food for their breakfasts and lunch.
Fairtrade Fortnight, which this year runs from 25th February to the 10th March 2013, will call on the British public to "Go Further for Fairtrade in 2013" - to look after the food we love and the people who grow it. Without our support now, farmers in developing countries face a difficult and uncertain future, the Fairtrade Foundation will warn.
Ever wondered whether your homemade marmalade is a cut above the rest? Enter the Marmalade Awards and they'll tell you! That's the call from organisers of the prestigious preserves contest, held at Dalemain in Cumbria, which attracts thousands of entries from all over the world. The World's Original Marmalade Awards and Festival on the 2nd and 3rd March kicks off National Marmalade Week 2nd - 9th March 2013.
RAW, the artisan wine fair, is returning to London in 2013, taking place at the Old Truman Brewery on 19th - 20th May. RAW is one of the most exciting, and certainly the largest, collection of fine, natural, organic and biodynamic wine artisans ever to come together in the capital. The two-day celebration of some of the best wine talent in the world offers visitors the chance to sample over 800 different wines from more than 200 growers.
The renowned Ambrette restaurants in Margate and Rye have announced the return of their popular gourmet wine tasting evenings, in conjunction with the Cranbrook-based wine and cheese merchants, Perfect Partners. Wine and food connoisseurs have three dates to chose from, all Sundays: 27th January, 12th May and Sunday 8th September 2013, beginning at 7pm.
