Plating the Seasons: A Creative Food Design Workshop
Join creative food artist Barney Pau for a hands-on workshop where food meets art. Explore cyclical gardening, seasonality, and ecological storytelling through edible elements inspired by the garden’s cultivation practices. Create your own edible masterpiece that reflects the seasonal rhythm of the natural world.
What to Expect
In this immersive plating workshop, you’ll work with seasonal elements inspired by OmVed gardens. Think fermented "mulch," fresh new shoots, edible "soil," and more! You’ll combine these elements to create a bespoke plate that captures the essence of nature’s cycles. After plating, you'll have the chance to style your creation and have it professionally photographed by Barney.
What You’ll Learn
The role of seasonal ingredients and cyclical gardening in sustainable cooking
How to plate and present food artistically, reflecting the natural world
Techniques for creating visually stunning edible art
The power of food as a medium for storytelling and ecological awareness
What’s Included
All ingredients and materials for plating
Styling props for your final creation
Professional food photography by Barney, with edited images sent to you after the workshop
Price includes entrance to explore our gardens and exhibition ‘Into the Seeds of Time’ with artist Vivienne Schandinsky
Who Can Take Part?
This workshop is open to anyone interested in food, art, and seasonality, no prior culinary skills required.
This workshop will have a maximum of 15 participants.
About the Host
Barney is a creative working across food, art, and writing, whose practice focuses on food futures, queering consumption, and foraging and fermenting as social resistance. He believes food, in its ubiquity, transcends language as a mode of communication, and by applying it as an artistic medium it can be used to impart new thinking. In his practice, he uses food both to communicate his thinking and as a point of departure for his research.
About OmVed Gardens:
OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.
As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.
We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.
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Subsidised Tickets: We encourage young people to take part in the group. Participants aged 16-25 can receive a 50% discount on the sessions. To apply, please email events@omvedgardens.com with the event name and a copy of your ID. Discounts are subject to availability.
Refund Policy: Tickets are non-refundable, except in cases where a waiting list exists for the session. If the event is sold out, a refund may be considered if requested up to 10 days prior to the session date. Please write to us for any refund inquiries.
Location
OmVed Gardens, N6 5JF