IHME Helsinki 2024: Maaleipä Feast

Come and celebrate Maaleipä — a challenge that invited home bakers, bakeries, restaurants, schools, and communities in Finland to create bread recipes that combine the well-being of land, water and people’s guts.

IHME Helsinki Commission 2024 Cooking Sections’ Maaleipä Challenge culminates in a celebratory event on Saturday 21 September 2024, from 14:00 to 18:00 at the Teurastamo Kellohalli (Työpajankatu 2) in Helsinki.

In addition to the finalist breads that will be displayed and available to taste, expect a market featuring soil-nourishing products, a food security workshop, bread chants, music and other treats inspired by Maaleipä – bread for the soil. The event is open to all and free of charge.

Programme

14:00 Kiehinä choir and dj folk flore, hosted by Olivia din Belle

15:00 Food security workshop with Maaleipä jury members (in English)
Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, Cooking Sections
Galina Kallio, Researcher of sustainable food economies and an amateur gastronome
Eliisa Kuusela, Bread culture entrepreneur, Leipäpaja
Ruby Van Der Wekken, Producer Member, Oma maa food cooperative
Paula Toppila, Executive director and curator, IHME Helsinki

16:00 Music performances Päivi Hirvonen

17:00 Maaleipä awards and bread tasting
Prize givers: Challenge patron MP Pekka Haavisto (Greens), Cooking Sections, Research Professor Minna Kaljonen, Food influencer Gelawej Viyan / Ripaus kurkumaa

Market Sellers:

Oma maa -osuuskunta: bread and other delicacies made of the organic crops from Lassila and Kauko farms.
6 kerkkä: product from spruce sprout.
Möttönen: alcohol free wild wines.
One and a half: honey.
Malmgård: organic flour from land race varieties.
Råbäck Gård: appels.
Mörby Gård: organic flours from wheat, oat, rye, spelt and einkorn.
Leipätalo ja Loistavat Leipurit: rye and oat bread.
Jädelino: Maaleipä ice cream.
Nyby Gård and Viljasoppa-project

The language of the event is both Finnish and English.

Food security in the age of environmental crisis can also be explored before the Maaleipä Feast at the Climate Security Festival, organised in cooperation with the Safer Climate network on 19–20 September 2024.