West Hampstead Local Food Festival 2006

This year's event was even bigger and better than last year's inaugural event. Being held over a fortnight from 14th to 27th June, the Festival was launched with a Local Food Fair on West End Green on Wed 14th June, and there a second fair on Sat 24th. Both events were very well supported, with locals enjoying the fine fare from the local farmers market, live jazz, cookery demonstrations, fun and games for the kids and lots, lots more!

During the fortnight nine local restaurants featured specials on their menus using fresh produce from the local farmers market, which yet again turned out to be tremendously popular.

And on Thurs 22nd we held a sell-out screening of the film McLibel, which was followed by a Q&A with the film's director and Camden resident Franny Armstrong.

Here are some photos from the launch event.

The Camden FoE stall was a centre for discussion and debate

Event organiser Nikki prays that the farmers will deliver the goods ...
Steve goes quietly...for a change!
The tomatoes were very popular
Would you buy a raffle ticket from these two?
Local jazz, nice ...
The produce was far better quality than the photography; me and my shadow...

Camden FoE soak up the sun at Camden Green Fair

Summer arrived just in time for the Camden Green Fair and the Camden FoE team were there in force to promote the upcoming West Hampstead Local Food Festival, and sign people up to the Friends of the Earth Big Ask and Company Law Reform (CORE) campaigns. Final scores on the doors:-

• CORE - 268 postcards
• Big Ask - 285 postcards

We also collected plenty of sunburn ...

And here's a picture of our lovely local food hamper used to publicise the upcoming West Hampstead Local Food Festival ...