Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Come and try some of the fine foods of Norfolk and learn, enjoy and participate in finding out more about our local producers. Story telling, art and craft activities for children as well as an opportunity to find out what food miles really mean for us all.

Food producers from all over Norfolk will be on hand to sell you their produce. There’s a chance to make an eel trap, meet a local eel fisherman and try some of our very own special recipe gruel! Watch a cookery demonstration and meet John Kenny, winner of ITV’s Britain’s Best Dish competition and take home some new ideas on how to make the best of Norfolk produce. Plus, don't miss:

Vegetable Voyages!
How Britain got to eat it's greens

Vegetable Voyages! will tell the history of how our plates went green and how we learned to live with the leek or care about the carrot.

In a specially written show for Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse, professional History-Performer Stephen Wisdom will 'spill the beans' on such burning issues as ...

• What would a Celt do with a courgette?
• Did Oliver Cromwell have the blues that his carrots were not orange?
• With Hitler waiting to invade were potatoes the answer - when the chips were down for Britain?


Stephen Wisdom is no stranger to telling stories with vegetables. You might remember him from the Sky One TV show 'Brainiac History Abuse' where he recreated 'epic veggie-battles' like Hastings or Waterloo with his armies made up from nothing more than the contents of any good greengrocers shelves. This show promises to be none less lively!

Wisdom says: Gressenhall and I have been developing this show to tell the story of the humble vegetable from long ago to WW2. We know that in the 18th century improvements were made in animal husbandry and the cattle we see today are bigger and healthier than their Medieval forebears. Not much though has been told to trace the humble vegetable's history from growing wild in prehistoric times to what we know and love today.

Vegetable Voyages will tell these stories, but remember to bring your sense of humour and tongue firmly in cheek! You may suddenly find your kids liking vegetables a whole lot more!

Gressenhall's Grounds & Collections

Gressenhall’s 50 acre site will be open for exploration, whether you want to meet Jimbo the new Suffolk Punch, play in the woodland playground, wander down by the river or mull over the collections in the museum.

There’s plenty to do whatever the weather!

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