A host of top Manchester chefs are heading to Platt Fields park this weekend for a ‘Harvest Festival BBQ’ to raise money for those in food poverty across the city. The event is being hosted by Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) and chef Mary-Ellen McTague, and happens on Saturday and Sunday at the park’s ‘market garden’.
The Saturday (September 17) starts at 12pm, is free entry to all and will feature a host of family-friendly activities all day organised by MUD. There will be apple pressing, forest school activities, drop in crafts like pottery and wheat dollies, a bar, a farmers market, music and a harvest show that anyone can enter.
Mary-Ellen, who’s worked for the likes of Heston Blumenthal at the multi-Michelin-starred Fat Duck and at Manchester restaurants like Aumbry and The Creameries, will also be showing off her BBQ skills cooking over coals on the day.
