A free all-ages day celebrating local food with a community preserve competition, tasting, live preservation demonstrations, children's crafts and local music.
The Great Pickle Jam-boree is coming to Union Street on Saturday 21 November, from 11am to 3pm. It's run by JarSquad, a Plymouth-based social-permaculture venture that works with food as a way to tackle food waste and social isolation. The whole day is built around preserving rescued or foraged food and sharing ingredients and know-how with anyone who wants to get involved.
The centrepiece is a community-judged preserve competition. Home cooks, allotment holders and fermenters enter their jars across a wide range of categories: jams, jellies, marmalades, chutneys and pickles, and even ferments. There's also a 'Pickle Poetry & Art' category for those whose preserving happens on paper rather than in a pot. Submissions close on 19 November, and the winners are announced on the day.
On the day, you can taste the entries and vote for your favourites, alongside free preserve tasters. There are live preservation demonstrations to pick up some new skills, children's arts and crafts to keep the smaller ones busy, and local music playing throughout. It's a day for anyone who likes the idea of taking something that might have gone to waste and turning it into something that lasts.
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Entry is free for all ages, and meal and drink tickets are available to buy on the day. You'll find it at c103, 103 Union St, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 3NB, from 11am to 3pm.
