Food at Treehouse Festival

‘If you really want to make a friend, go to someone ’ s house and eat with him’ (Cesar Chavez)

Meals at the Treehouse Festival are perhaps the most important way in which we come together as a community. We all take turns to prepare and cook two main meals a day: lunch and dinner (breakfast is provided too but that’s a much simpler affair with porridge, cereals, breads and spreads). Everyone gathers in one place to eat, catch-up and socialize.

All of you will be part of a team to either prepare and serve meals (lots of vegetable chopping is involved) or to wash up afterwards. It’s a great way to chat, laugh or even sing with other members of Treehouse.

Every meal is vegetarian and will often be vegan too. If it isn’t then there will always be a vegan option.

We know that some of the youngest members of our community get hungry some time before the evening meal is served. So we have an earlier ‘kids meal’ just for the under12s. Those meals start at 5.30 every evening.

Our head chefs for this year are Rob and Grace. Rob works for a Thai restaurant in London and has been bringing his creative culinary delights to Treehouse for several years. He's got plenty of new ideas simmering away for this year and will be joined by Grace who has been behind the stove at Treehouse since the very first pot was hoisted over the campfire. Grace has a passion for Indian food and has previously worked in catering in various places including a falafel stand in Cambridge where they learned a magical falafel recipe. They will both be joined by an additional team of cooks who will ensure that we all get hearty and tasty meals every day.

Times for meals are flexible. Generally it's about 8.00am for breakfast, 1.00pm for lunch and 6.30pm for dinner.

Other Things

Treehouse Festival Library

Pop along to the newly renovated Swamp Hut and you’ll find our new library of books all to do with crafts - both traditional and contemporary. You’re free to borrow them during the week so that if you fancy a bit of down-time you can relax with one of our books. Bring them back for next year though!

Root and Branch

This is the place where you can get information about workshops and other events as well as booking your place on any of those workshops. You’ll also find lots of Treehouserelated things you can take away. It's the brain hub of the festival.

Social Media

We love seeing your photos of Treehouse on your social media pages. Just two things to bear in mind. Please make sure that any pictures with children/young people are only shared with permission. Also remember to use #TF2023 as a hashtag.

We’ve also set up a Flickr group so that all of your photos can be shared with everyone else. There’s a QR code at Root and Branch so that you can sign up.