On Saturday 14th March, the Hoo Heddern will be set up at the Myatts of Mockbeggar Farm Shop.
From 1pm, everyone is invited to join artist Cherry Truluck for a relaxed workshop in which you will learn to make a fruity mixer called a ‘shrub’ using all local and seasonal ingredients from the farm. You can take a little bottle home with you or stay on to enjoy it at our community cocktail party from 2pm.
Low and no-alcohol cocktails will be available. No booking need, just turn up. All ages welcome to celebrate mothers and caregivers at this pre-mothers’ day event.
You are also invited to come and step inside Hoo Heddern, take a look around, and help shape what this travelling archive becomes.
Bring something to place on the shelves
Each stop along the peninsula adds another thread to the Heddern’s growing tapestry: a recipe rescued from a drawer, the smell of a childhood meal, a seed packet saved from a long‑gone allotment, a note about what once grew in the salt‑touched soil, or a catalogue that once lived in someone’s shed.
You’re welcome to share anything connected to food and the Hoo landscape:
- Stories of meals, marshes, gardens, and kitchens – written or just memories to share
- Favourite recipes — smudged, typed, or half‑remembered
- Ingredients grown, gathered, or simply loved
- Books, catalogues, clippings, foraging notes
- Memories of fishing, foraging, cooking, preserving, and feasting.
Every contribution will become part of a living, travelling portrait of what food means here and how it has shaped the peninsula, past and present.
Explore what the Heddern is carrying
Inside the Heddern, you’ll find a strange and beautiful mix of objects offered by neighbours across Hoo. You can open drawers, read the snippets people have left behind, browse recipes and notes, and trace patterns between the salt‑pans, gardens, mudflats, and kitchens that make this place unique.
The Hoo Heddern has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Medway Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).