Fran Pickering - Cooking the Food We Grow & Preserving the Harvest

Fran describes herself as a premaculture desginer specialising in food. She has been her own boss since 2002,working in many areanas with a variety of ethical groups, most predominatly with Brighton Permaculture trust, through whom she cooks for many groups and situations. She was born into a foodie household where she was spoiled with diverse culinary expreinces. Her parents loved to travel the world particularily he father who spent his adult life compiling a database from traditional recipes he had tasted enroute. 

Fran's son was born ith a "tree nut" allergy which led her to explore and specialise in restricted diets. In her 30s she was a vegan for 3 years but now classifies herself as a "permaculture vegetarian." Her cooking skills lean towards Mediterrean and Chinese/Asian fusion but she is also passionate about fermentation, raw foods jams, pcikles, pestos and vegetable dips. She also loves to eat and cook wild food and regional, seasonal variarions. Amongst her permaculture skills are the design she did for how to feed 2000 people apple crumble in a field and her "make no waste" wartime wisdom of creating new things from "left overs." As a passionate person  about all things food, Fran is more than happy to share her learning with others either formally or round a dinner table.