| Staff and students from Dundee College are hard at work preparing to make their mark at this weekend’s Flower and Food Festival in Camperdown Park.
The college will be represented in both aspects of the festival with the hospitality and catering teams working alongside the horticulture unit.
With the festival theme healthy living, staff and students will be showing what they can do at the City of Discovery Business Lunch.
Lecturer chef Walter McCrindle will be doing cookery demonstrations using the best of Scottish ingredients.
Said Walter, “I’ll be doing a tattie and leek soup incorporating Arbroath smokies and an oatmeal rarebit followed by a bramble liqueur mousse.”
The horticulture unit is working in partnership with their counterparts at the Craigmill Skillcentre, Strathmartine Hospital.
Team leader Gordon Croll, Eric Smith, senior instructor at Craigmill and lecturer Alastair Macqueen have come up with a design which puts fruit and vegetables squarely in the centre of things — making sure the healthy lifestyle theme is to the fore.
Other key features include dry-stone walls, a water feature, paving, glasshouse, garden shed and fencing.
The dry-stone element is expressed with an arched bridge incorporated in the water feature.
“The bridge, built to scale at the college, will be taken apart and re-assembled on site in Camperdown Park,” explained Alastair, who did much of the construction and reconstruction.” |
