2024 Ongoing
PENT FARM
The Locavore Growing Project has expanded! We’ve newly moved into a plot of land at Pent Farm, Postling, and are eager to get growing. Find out more by subscribing to our newsletter.
THE LOCAVORE GROWING PROJECT
A community growing project created by Custom Food Lab, primarily based at Martello Primary School in Folkestone, Kent.
2020-2021
FOOD ART RESEARCH NETWORK
An international network of food artists and researchers, convened and hosted through its formative stages by Custom Food Lab and now operating independently.
2020-2021
SPECULATIVE LANDSCAPES
A collective art research project emerging from that explored the potential for being otherwise in landscapes.
October 2019
SOMETHING HELD IN THE MOUTH
A four day festival at Custom Folkestone bringing together artists and creative practitioners to present a diverse programme of art, events, workshops and talks about the poetics of food, the politics of its migrations and the ways in which our bodies hold these stories:
- East End Jam
- Gleaning Trip to No Man’s Orchard
- Picnic Poetico
- (Be)Longing
- Urban Farming, Local Conversations
- Mouthings Symposium
- Mouthfeel and the Toothache Disco
- Building Alternative Food Systems
- 50 Farmers’ Tales
- Folkestone Garden Tour
- ZIMBABWE: Community Feast
September 2019
GARDEN TO TABLE COOKERY CLUB
January – August 2019
THE HARBOUR LINE
Custom once dreamt of transitioning onto the derelict space of the Harbour Line Spur, a tranche of derelict land that connected the mainline trains to the Harbour and it’s ferries to Europe. The line seems to represent a juncture in our collective imaginings for Folkestone – a link between land and sea, a line of division with the potential to unite:
September 2019
SUSTAINABLE FOOD LONG TABLE (part of SALT Festival)
August 2019
BRAZIL: Community Feast
June 2019
EAT YOUR WORDS
A month long celebration of food in translation and transcription at Custom Folkestone:
- Fireside Storytelling
- Solstice Party
- Food Was Her Country
- Delfina Politics of Food Visit
- ERITREA: Community Feast
December 2018
LOCAVORE FESTIVE FEAST
September – November 2018
VESSEL
A programme of experimental work at Custom Folkestone, looking at alternative modes of production and woman (Meta) as producer/re-producer:
September 2018
LOCAVORE COMMUNITY FEAST AND FORUM (part of SALT Festival)
Ongoing
COMMUNITY FEASTS