Toklas Bakery will host its inaugural Harvest Festival on 24 September, with an all-day market from some of the UK’s finest seasonal producers alongside a ticketed workshop, and brand new bakes from Head Bakery Janine Edwards and team.
Celebrating the return of autumn, the market will run from 10am until 3pm.
Throughout the day, visitors will find wares from Pyscis Conserves, which specialises in ‘vintage’ and heritage tinned fish; small-batch boxed wines from Bobo Wines; jarred beans and legumes from Bold Bean Co; Harvest flavour specials from The Social Drinking Company and contemporary, ethically-sourced Indian snacks from Biskut Bar.
The Harvest Festival is also a chance for the bakery to spotlight lesser known brands who are motivated by the want to do good, such as Different Kind, a usually-digital store who stock products from ex-offenders, female farmers and neuro-diverse young people.
Throughout the day, Shrub will be selling an array of fruit and vegetables at the height of their season. Toklas have enjoyed a long standing friendship with founders Sam and Harry, and having previously acted as sole importer of the yearly Todolí citrus harvest, recently passed the baton on to Shrub for wider distribution across the capital.
At 11am and 2pm respectively, fermentation educator Jeanne Kessira will host two ticketed workshops.
The one-hour-long lactic fermentation course will run through the fundamentals of this ancient, nourishing practice, alongside the health benefits and advantages of at-home ferments.
Each guest will make and take home sauerkrauts made during the session, with tickets available for £30 via the Toklas website.
Alongside the Harvest offering, Head of Toklas Bakery’s Janine Edwards and her team of skilled bakers will serve up brand new pastries throughout the day to eat in, or take away. Apple and blackberry hand pies will use the choice fruit of Autumn, alongside Apple spandauer, a Danish custard-based pastry, and Sour cherry swirl, the return of an original Toklas baskery favourite.
The market will be free to enter, although guests are encouraged to bring non-perishable goods along for donation to the Felix Project, who aim to redistribute food waste to over 900 frontline food charities across the UK.