Good footing slow food walk in collaboration with Dining by Desave, Fanny’s wines and the Burnt hill herb co.

I got to shoot the first Slow Food Walk with Good Footing last week, and well, it was. HOT one! 35 degrees to be exact, I took three batteries incase my trusty Fuji couldn’t cope with the heat.

We walked out of the valley and up onto the golden fields that lead down to Burnt Hill Farm. It was one of those evenings where the heat makes everything feel slightly unreal, and by the time the farm came into view, nobody could quite believe it wasn’t a dream.

Jon, Chloe and Fanny met us with a cold glass of a summer spritzer and Jon took us round the farm himself. Listening to him talk about the balance between nature, sustainability and ethical farming, and how all of that turns into genuinely great produce, was the kind of thing that makes you want to slow right down.

Then Chloe laid out a spread that did the whole farm justice. Smoked trout. Rigatoni with homemade pesto and sundried tomato. Grilled courgettes with lemon, feta and mint. Simple food, done properly, which is somehow always the hardest kind to get right.

Fanny paired the natural wines and told the story behind each one as she poured, and that’s when the evening really opened up. We sat under the trees, ate, drank, talked. Nobody was in a rush to be anywhere else.

Eventually we had to leave, even Margot my 10 year old daughter didn’t want to leave behind the smoked trout pâté or Chloe’s Foccacia!

It was a proper treat of an evening, and I felt lucky to be the one behind the camera for it. Huge thanks to Danny, Jon, Chloe and Fanny for having me along.

Jo x