9.30 - 9.45

Registration

9.45 - 10.00

Welcome and Introduction

10.00 - 11.00

Session 1

Why Humans Share Food
Professor Martin Jones  (Archaeology, Cambridge)

Growing Food Plants with School Children
Dr Judy Fox (Botanic Garden, Cambridge)

Coffee/Tea Break

11.30 - 1.00

Session 2

Fungal Historiography
Professor Nick Jardine (HPS, Cambridge)

Plotting for Food Feet and Food Security
Dave Fox  (Trumpington Allotment Society)

I See:  Food Plants
Jane Frost (Artist)

1.00 - 2.15

Lunch (& Vegetable Carving)

2.15 - 3.15

Session 3

Cool Fruits and Hot Beds: The Unnatural Cultivation of the Eighteenth-Century Cucumber
Dr Anne Secord (HPS, Cambridge)

Ancient Crops Today
Dr Sally Francis (Economic Botanist and Agricultural Journalist)

3.15 - 3.45

Coffee/Tea Break

3.45 - 4.45

Session 4

What Defines a 'Crop' Plant and What Drives Farmers’ Cultivation Choices
Dr Lydia Smith (Novel Crops Manager, National Institute of Agricultural Botany

The Plant’s View of Edibility
Professor John Parker (Botanic Garden, Cambridge)

4.45 

Concluding Remarks

Followed by a wine reception at CRASSH