A Cuppa on King Street

Something’s Brewing at Bristol Old Vic

The Community Greenhouse has been a hive of activity over the summer, with the perfect weather helping the team to grow ingredients for the next stage of our project with ACH and some extraordinary women...

Homemade is a brand-new iced tea drink made by Bristol women, using ingredients from the local area and from produce grown in our community greenhouse!

This month we’re launching HOMEMADE - an iced tea syrup made from Bristol by Bristol women. Its ingredients and makers can be found locally but are from all over the world.

Holly Wallis, our Heritage Participation and Partnerships Manager, explains more…

"The Homemade team are originally from countries all over the world, now living in Bristol. The group got together with scholar and cook Fozia Ismail to share stories, associations, ingredients, and recipes from our respective food heritages. Our conversations took place in Bristol Old Vic’s event space Coopers’ Hall, which once stored and sold imported food that came through Bristol’s historic harbour.

Inspired by our stories of tea and medicinal plants, we played around with flavours from ingredients that we grew and foraged in the local area. We eventually landed on the perfect combination of Bramble, Lemon balm and Mint. All these ingredients grow naturally in Bristol, but have been used for centuries all over the world for their medicinal properties and exciting flavours.

Homemade is now on sale at our Kitchen + Bar, with all proceeds going back to its makers. Head down to Bristol Old Vic to grab your taste of Bristol."

See you soon for a taste!

Homemade is a National Lottery Heritage Funded project, which uses heritage as a tool to help foster integration and a greater understanding of Bristol between its newer and older inhabitants. The project is also aimed at developing opportunity, experience, and skills for employment for clients of migrant support and integration organisation, ACH.

Partners:

Fozia Ismail, Arawelo Eats (project designer)

ACH

This Greenhouse was built as part of the National Lottery Heritage Funded Project Unscripted: A Performative History of Bristol, Bristolians and Bristol Theatre

Unscripted Partners:

Brunelcare

Ashley Community Housing

University of Bristol Theatre Collection

Bristol Archives

As well as: schools, children's centres, arts. orgs., Bristol heritage sites and many more