Friday 16th November
The Stove Café, Midsteeple Quarter, High Street, Dumfries
Our final event of the year was a Christmas cracker! We invited you to reimagine a more sustainable Christmas, and we invited along local businesses, crafters and organisations that can help us celebrate a more climate-conscious Christmas.
Have you considered buying your Christmas dinner from our local food partnership Galloway Food Hub, for example? The Food Hub connect local producers, growers and farmers with their community. Like the idea of an organic, low food-miles, Christmas spread that supports regenerative farmers throughout the region? Orders are open from Friday until Tuesday for delivery the following Friday, every week until Christmas! Order with ease at https://gallowayfoodhub.org.uk/ and collect from one of several destinations across the region.
What about your Christmas cake? Lean Bean in Thornhill have been putting together a ‘zero-waste’ Christmas cake – but we like to think of it as zero-hassle too – all the ingredients are weighed out for you, just like when Nigella Lawson cooks, meaning no more almost-empty packets of currants festering in the back of your cupboard for the next few months! Poppy from Lean Bean was taking orders and giving out free tasters of this dangerously moreish delight!
And did you spare a thought for what your Christmas tree will do beyond December? Two cheeky elves at Kilnford Barns have the perfect solution – a Christmas tree that grows up with your family, and is cared for at Kilnford between January and November each year. You get the same tree back each year, nourished and re-potted, until it’s too big for your house, after which time it will be planted for you to visit whenever you wish. Head to Kilnford Barns to choose your tree for delivery early December!
For all your glow-up needs (and your dog’s too!) at Christmas we were joined by the Kitchen Witch, and we had a specially curated stall of artisan gifts with sustainability at their core, courtesy of Leah at Flourish.
Finally, we had a Climate Conscious Christmas all wrapped up using the art of scarf-tying gifts, or furoshiki as it’s known in Japan, and an opportunity to reflect on the real meaning of Christmas, a time for togetherness, remembrance and sharing, as well as look forward to the year ahead.
If you joined us, hopefully you found the event a “gentle challenge to the unrestrained consumer blowout which has come to define the close of our year”, as a very kind commentator put it!
As usual, we have NO Climate Kitchen event in December, but we look forward to opening our doors again in January for more idea sharing, inspiration and activism with you!
Happy holidays, from the Climate Kitchen Team x