The Outback Community Kitchen & Garden

02/09/2026

02/09/2026

🍞🌿 We’re excited to be part of the Calderdale Festival of Food 🌿🍎

From 7–20 September, Calderdale will be celebrating two weeks of eating, cooking, growing and exploring local food – and we’re delighted that The Outback Community Kitchen & Garden is part of it! 💚

As part of the festival, we’re hosting a special Introduction to Sourdough Making workshop, where you can discover the art of traditional sourdough baking in our beautiful community garden.

You’ll enjoy a sourdough tasting, learn the basics, prepare your own loaf to bake at home, take a tour of The Outback garden and even take home a jar of our homemade Outback jam, made with fruit grown right here! 🍓🍞

📅 Sunday 13 September
⏰ 10am–12pm
📍 The Outback Community Kitchen & Garden
💷 £40 per person

🎟️ Spaces are limited!

📞 Sarah: 07990 031075
📧 [email protected]

We can’t wait to celebrate local food, local growing and our brilliant food community as part of Calderdale Festival of Food! 🌱

28/08/2026

🍞 Fancy trying your hand at sourdough?

Join us at The Outback Community Kitchen & Garden for a relaxed, hands-on sourdough workshop delivered by Companyhfx as part of the Calderdale Festival of Food 🌿

📅 Sunday 13 September
⏰ 10am–12pm
📍 The Outback, Lightowler Road, Halifax
💷 £40 per person

You’ll enjoy a sourdough tasting, learn the basics, prepare your own loaf to bake at home, tour our community garden and take home a jar of homemade Outback jam! 🍓

🍞 Loaf tin included.

Spaces are limited, so book early!
📞 Sarah: 07990 031075
📧 [email protected]

https://www.visitcalderdale.com/event/introduction-to-sourdough-making-at-outback-community-kitchen/

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27/08/2026

We can't wait to taste Companyhfx's Asian pear chutney 👀 they'll be serving it up in their picnic plates at Sowerby Bridges's iconic festival next weekend.

Take a look at where you'll find them and let us know what you think of the outback Asian 🍐 chutney.

27/08/2026

We were lucky with the rain today for our family gardening session ☔ it didn't arrive until we'd just finished 🪏

We've been picking potatoes, plums and raspberries and we enjoyed getting creative and designing our own bunting 🐝🐞🦋🐛🪱

A lovely end to our summer activities. Next we're getting ready for the Calderdale Festival of Food sourdough workshop with RUSTIC SOURDOUGH BREAD AND BAKES and our stall at the Calderdale Food Gathering Halifax Borough Market

🫛🥔🍎🌽🍅🍇🥒

27/08/2026

🌱 What’s growing at The Outback? 🍅

Our garden is looking very productive at the moment, with a fantastic variety of fruit and vegetables growing across the plots! 🌿

We’ve got:
🥦 Brassicas
🥔 Potatoes
🌱 Leeks
🧄 Garlic
🍑 Plums
🍐 Asian pears
🍎 Apples
🥒 Courgette
🌽 Sweetcorn
🍅 Tomatoes
🍇 Grapes

All of our produce is organically grown, and we love sharing the harvest with our local community. 💚

🛒 Want to see what’s available? Pop into The Outback on Tuesday or Thursday mornings to see our latest produce for sale.

You can also regularly find our freshly harvested produce at the Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre reception – perfect for taking a little bit of The Outback home with you!

It’s brilliant to see all the hard work of our staff, volunteers and community coming together – and there’s nothing quite like food that’s grown locally, organically and with plenty of care. 🌱🥕🍅

26/08/2026

Very proud of our delicious honey 🍯 and our incredible Park Ward Pollinators who have been so busy collecting honey from our busy 🐝🐝🐝

We're really chuffed to be part of the Calderdale Festival of Food 🥳

25/08/2026

Allan is ringing the lunch bell at The Outback. Time for all our amazing volunteers to gather round the table and eat together ❤️

25/08/2026

🌱 What a wonderful four days at the Seeds of Hope Festival! 🌼

We loved being part of Seeds of Hope Festival at Stage at the Lake, celebrating nature, community and everything that makes growing together so special.

Over the four days, we had the pleasure of chatting with so many wonderful people about The Outback Community Kitchen & Garden – sharing what we do, meeting new faces and hopefully inspiring a few more people to get involved with community gardening. 🌿🐝

And one of the highlights? Meeting Jason Williams – aka Cloud Gardener UK ☁️🌱 It was fantastic to meet someone so passionate about gardening and growing.

A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by, chatted with us and showed an interest in The Outback. And of course, a massive thank you to our amazing volunteers and community who helped make our mini Outback show garden possible.

What a brilliant few days – we loved every minute! 💚

24/08/2026

We have lots of grapes on our vine in the Outback! If you could make use of them, please let us know or call into the Outback on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 11am and 1pm 🍇