The Haewai / Houghton Valley Seeds-to-Feeds Festival Community Dinner is happening again this year. We are hosting a COVID safe community meal that you can enjoy with us in the Houghton Valley School hall or take home to the comfort of your dining room.
You’ll be ordering a yummy dinner prepared by locals and Seeds to Feeds team. It will include vegetables and wild plants harvested from local mārakai or foraged from our ngāhere. The dinner is predominantly vegan, though we couldn’t resist honey cakes to share, specially prepared for a number of dietary restrictions.
Because of COVID, the last school fair was cancelled so all the funds raised will go towards school projects.
The tickets are koha, whatever you can afford. There are only 60 meals available, so be in quickly! If you know anyone in our community who might be isolating, sick, or unable to join us for any reason we encourage you to collect a meal to take to them so that they still get to enjoy some delicious local kai.
We will have limited spaces for indoor dining, or if the weather is fine you can collect your meal and gather with your family or friends to have a picnic on the school grounds. If the weather is not so good, we will serve from the school hall and you can scurry home and enjoy a Sunday dinner cooked by someone else.
We ask you to bring cutlery and cups as we are trying to reduce single-use items and to help minimise COVID contact points. If you are taking it away you will need to bring a flat-bottomed bag to carry the (compostable) food containers, whatever you wish to drink with your meal; and anything else you might need, such as something to sit on. However, there are lots of nice seating areas in the school grounds and the community gardens. Please take your rubbish away for composting or recycling.
We hope you can support this community venture and enjoy some great local food!
COVID SAFE PLAN :
So that we are staying safe we will begin outside, weather permitting, with a Karakia and welcome, following which we will check everyone in, and get you seated. Meals will be collected a bubble at a time from a contactless collection point for you to either take back to your table, your picnic spot or your home.
We will be scanning vaccine passes when you sign in.
Masks are to be worn at all times except for when seated and eating
All meals are lucky dip unless, catering to dietary requirements, from the following:
Starter
Green velvet soup (gf & vegan)
Main
Glamorgan sausages (vegan, contains miso and gluten) OR
Zucchini fritters (gf & vegan)
Kawakawa crisps (gf & vegan)
HV signature salad with grown and foraged greens and edible flowers (gf & vegan)
Dessert
Coconut panna cotta,
Olive oil honey cakes OR
Fruit crumble
all dietary requirements will be catered to (gf & vegan)
We can't wait to share beautiful kai from our ngāhere and local mārakai with you!