Warm Grain
Are you interested in food, cooking and it’s evolving future? Then become part of the food democracy revolution. We are on a future food journey and we’d love you to join us.
We all felt the heat last summer. Every second, an acre of soil turns to desert. Greggs have pioneered the vegan sausage roll. There’s now a company that PRINTS meat. And this is just the start.
Our food systems will transform over the next few years. The most marginalised will feel the most negative effects of this, and feel them first. The change is coming, and all people regardless of their background deserve to have a say in what the change will be.
Imagine a series of street-feasts and communal meals, where people explore, plan, and eat their possible food futures.
Through creative, democratic exploration of our food culture, systems, and new technologies, we can make that happen.
Warm Grain Programme
Small, local shared meals
Meals hosted at home by volunteers. They will invite a mix of local people, policymakers, and artists to eat and discuss food futures.
Community Feasts
Jubilee-style trestle tables in the middle of residential streets. Menus will be developed with local representatives of each street. Baked goods made from drought resistant grains, sharing plates of vertical-farmed veg, mushrooms grown in people’s homes. People from a huge range of backgrounds will explore heritage dishes, family recipes, and future foods reimagined for low-carbon.
Make Stuff
Art and the creative process helps us make sense of complicated and difficult ideas. Like what’s going to happen to our food systems. We embed artists in the creation and hosting of the meals. They make stuff, and share it. Readings, illustrations, music…the possibilities are endless, and are guided by our meal hosts.
Food Democracy
Local people will share in a possible food future alongside artists and climate scientists. Crucially, we will build facilitated citizens assemblies into the feast events, attended by local council representatives, policymakers, and MPs.
Host a warm grain gathering
We need volunteer hosts for small Warm Grain meal gatherings of 5 - 8 people.
We’ll introduce you to some interesting ideas and research around sustainable food, and help you plan a meal around it.
We’ll support you to invite people, and plan some discussion points.
If you like cooking / hosting, it’s an interesting way to be a good ancestor.
Interested?