Ep 17- Georgina speaks to Flora Exmoor-based events catering business owner of Flora’s Food and Kitchen

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Flora owns Flora’s Food and Kitchen which is a catering business based in Exmoor on the border of Devon and Somerset. She caters for ‘lots of lovely celebrations’ weddings, dinners and parties as well as doing work for holiday let companies going in with her team to cater for guests. She is very passionate about her business and it’s clear she loves catering for people providing seasonal, local and sustainable meals and helping people to learn how to cook which she sees as a little gift she can share.

Ironically, Flora expanded the business in 2019 and had her best year so when the pandemic arrived she says ‘I was poleaxed I was in shock actually I had never not worked or been able to work in my life’. Once she got over the shock she realised she had to diversify and started providing vegan and vegetarian meals to The Blue Pantry a zero-waste shop. She also decided to upskill and did a digital marketing course with @TechPixies. This helped her to gain confidence online and she now gives 'live' cooking lessons on instagram @florafoodandkitchen and also gives group cooking lessons on Zoom where you get to learn how to make sushi and lots of other delicious meals.

Whilst doing these things helped the last year has been very hard. Christmas was particularly tough as Christmas celebrations were all called off a few days before. This left Flora with loads of food that had been prepared for guests but was no longer needed. Determined not to throw it away she found out about a food project called The Wivey Food Project and was able to give them meals which they could distribute. This is an ongoing food project which she now volunteers for providing meals to support the local community.

This past year has shown Flora she can do far more which means she now has an online presence and a space to provide 'live' lessons and group cooking classes. January 2022 also sees her hosting her first retreat at Berry House. The interview was recorded on Wednesday 9th June @ 10 am BST.

https://florasfoodandkitchen.com/

Flora’s retreat - the information will go live this week, ready for people to sign up…;) https://bit.ly/3hjNKIu

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