Discovering delicious ways to use locally grown food and reducing food waste
13 & 14 September 2025
St Paul’s Church, Coronation Road, Bristol, BS3 1AS
BS3 Jammin’ is an annual weekend event for the local community to donate their surplus homegrown foods, for us to all cook, press and preserve it, in order to reduce food waste and support our local food bank.
Volunteer chefs (which include Mark Chapman from Cor Restaurant, Elliott and Tessa Lidstone from Box - E Restaurant, Masterchef contestant Woei Lee and Bristol City College’s Bill Bennet Clark) cook all weekend as members of the public help with food prep and learn from the chefs.
Other activities include apple pressing, following our very own PYO Map around BS3 and finding out what’s growing in the area, a cooking competition (where the only rule is to use something from the harvest), an educational compost stall, arts and crafts and more!
Press and Media
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BBC News, Bristol, 15 September 2024
Jamming session: St Paul's Church in Southville hosted its annual BS3 Jammin' event last Sunday, with local residents bringing their fruit and vegetables which were turned into jams, chutneys and more on a day set up to reduce waste but also support the BS3 Community Foodban
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Bristol Good Food 2030, 17 September 2024
Cags Diep reports on the BS3 Jammin’ Community Harvest. Read on about the impact of this event and find out how to stay connected.
As I reflect on the incredible weekend of 7th and 8th September 2024, I can’t help but feel a surge of pride and joy. Our BS3 Jammin’ Community Harvest event wasn’t just a success — it was a testament to the power of community, creativity, and caring for our environment…
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Church Times, 17 January 2025
In the parish: How to run a community food project
The premise of BS3 Jammin’ is straightforward: gather surplus food and jars from the local community to create preserves, juices, and meals. The project was hosted by St Paul’s, Southville, in Bristol, and led by a member of the community, Cags Diep, who was inspired to create the project after witnessing the panic, greed, and food shortages during the Covid-19 pandemic. It became clear to her that many communities were overlooking the potential of untapped local food resources…
Photos from our Instagram
GET INVOLVED
We always need volunteers to help with our event, as without volunteers we would be running around like headless chickens! If you love: picking/foraging fruit and veg, have a passion for making freshly pressed apple juice, want to learn more about how to preserve/cook with locally grown foods, can help with stewarding, setting up and packing down - WE WANT YOUR HELP!
Also if you want to host any activities or have a stall and it’s in keeping with our ethos of locally grown foods and sustainability, please get in touch, we would love to hear your ideas!
DONATE YOUR HARVEST
WE WANT YOUR FOOD!
Anything you have lovingly grown from your homes, allotments, community gardens and anywhere in between so we can get BS3 Jammin’ ! We want to see all the incredible things that can be grown in Bristol, find out how creative our chefs can get by making as many delectable delights out of it AND most importantly we want to put the abundance of food into good use and reduce food waste!
Please contact us using the form above if you have any produce to share and need help harvesting it, we can coordinate volunteers to help pick the food!
SUPPORT FROM BUSINESSES
If your business would like to help, please get in touch as there are so many ways for you to support us.
What’s important is that our event is free and fully accessible to everyone, which can only be done by the kind donations from local businesses!