


Pasture to Plate® Dinner: No Finer Life
Graham Harvey, Roberta Bellekom and Alastair Collingwood
Saturday, 30 March 2019
7:45pm
Evening
St Cross College
£95
FT Weekend Oxford Literary festival celebrates its new series of Pasture to Plate® events with a dinner with ingredients sourced from Whittington Lodge Farm in the Cotswolds and the performance of some short excerpts from the play, No Finer Life. The price includes dinner and wines. Dress code informal.
No Finer Life was written by Graham Harvey, a farming journalist and script writer for The Archers who has collaborated with the festival on Pasture to Plate. The play is based on the book, The Farming Ladder, by George Henderson, published in 1943 to show how people could set up a small and profitable farm. The 20-minute performance between courses will feature actress Roberta Bellekom and musician and composer of the original music Alastair Collingwood.
Many of the day’s speakers will be at the event, which will include locally sourced food prepared by St Cross chefs under the guidance of the festival’s consultant chef Paul Bloomfield. Bloomfield has worked with many top chefs including Ken Hom, Madhur Jaffrey, Giancarlo Caldesi and Claudia Roden.
Whittington Lodge Farm is a 700-acre farm near Bourton on the Water owned by farmer and wildlife photographer Ian Boyd and his wife Cathy. The whole farm has gone organic. Cattle are fed only on pastures and a mixture of grasses, legumes and herbs. The farm is a certified member of the Pasture for Life Association, which requires careful management to ensure animals always have something to eat out in the fields and that the health of soil structure is maintained.
This event is part of a series under the banner Pasture to Plate® that look at the environmental and health benefits of raising food on pasture and getting it to the consumer quickly through a short supply chain.
Acclaimed organic Provence wines presented by Chêne Bleu - La Verrière



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