The Cultural Food Project began in 2024 as a regular gathering space, created to celebrate the cultural foods we grow on the land together. Each session centred on a single plant, offering time to learn collectively through land cultivation, cooking, food preservation and mindful practices. Alongside hands-on growing, we shared readings, recipes, explored folklore and traditional growing knowledge, engaging with land ecologies through anti-colonial and non-Western perspectives.
Sessions were free with spaces prioritised for local Southwark residents.
The project continues as a workshop series, with the intention of culminating in a collectively produced booklet of food stories, recipes and shared readings. Iterations of the workshop have been hosted in spaces across London.
Artwork by Kieron Boothe
We’re continuing this work in new and evolving forms.
The first iteration, outside the garden, took place at Somerset House in April 2025 as part of the SOIL and Salt Cosmologies exhibition.
This session invited participants to reflect on the significance of food in their lives through writing, group discussion + seed exchange.
