Sunday 2 November, 2-5pm – Rampton Village Hall
We’ve harvested the pumpkins we grew on the recreation ground wildflower meadow to denutrify the soil and enhance wildflower growth next year. Now it’s time to put the pumpkins to further use. Cambridge Sustainable Food (CSF) will be making them into delicious food to share at this community event. Magical!
Drop-in any time
As well as a ‘pay-as-you-feel’ café, providing a delicious pumpkin afternoon tea featuring pumpkin soup, pumpkin scones with pumpkin and apple jam and pumpkin chai latte provided by CSF, there will be stalls and children’s activities.
But don’t miss the cookery demo, 3-4pm
Michelin-trained chef, Rowen Halstead*, will be cooking up an autumnal storm of pumpkin-based dishes with tasters for you to try.
New weekly food waste collection
There will also be an opportunity to find out about a new weekly collection of food waste being introduced across the Greater Cambridge area in 2026. Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Services (GCSWS) staff will be on hand to talk to residents about the upcoming service and show people the new food bins.
All are welcome at this FREE event which will celebrate every bit of a pumpkin, making a feast of the pumpkins grown on the recreation ground’s wildflower meadow.
Waste not want not!
This event is a collaboration between GCSWS, CSF and Sustainable Rampton.
*You can also see Rowen at the Cambridge Central Library (3rd Floor) on Saturday 1st November from 11.30 – 1.00pm where he will be demonstrating how to cook every part of a pumpkin. For more information, and to book your place, see page 5 of Cambridge County Council’s Autumn 2025 Waste Education Service Newsletter. Rowen’s recipes for Pumpkin Cheesecake and Pumpkin Soup are on pages 4 & 5 of this issue.