Radical Bakers Summer Gathering

Radical Bakers Summer Gathering 2022 will be 7-10th July at Crabapple.

Radical Bakers Summer Gathering is our main event of the year, held at Crabapple Community, Shrewsbury, one of the oldest housing co-ops in the UK. There are full days of activities along with a couple of great bands each night on the Green Dragon Solar Stage. We run a café bar and offer fully catered tickets. Book tickets now for 2022 at the bottom of this page.

Workshops 2022

So far we have: Edwina Hodgekinson – Wild Plant Cordage and a Herb Walk, Steve Reed – Cutlery Upcycling, Sara SMPtree – Paper Weaving, Simon Pool – Protest Rights, Zee-Zee Heine – Home Heating and Insulation Retrofit, Tammi Dallaston – Intro to Permaculture, Julie Henderson – Textiles (lots of stuff on in the textiles tent), Mike Craig and Neil Hopkinson – Green Woodworking, Hamilton Banana – Basket Weaving, Yoga, Baking, Singing, Herbalism. Many more to be added in the coming months.

As well as a full timetable of scheduled workshops, we have the Baking Area, Camp Market, Green Woodworking and Textiles, Wild Plant Walks and tours of the Crabapple grounds and gardens. For children we have 2 sessions of organised activities each day and a Kid’s Baking Session. Our workshops involve practical tasks we can do together to achieve a concrete goal, or are there to give you information you can use to improve your life and the lives of those around you. Check out our workshops archive.

Music at Radical Bakers 2022

The fabulous Weirdstring Band are our Friday Night Headliners supported by Birds and Beasts who are also running an Animal-Themed Quiz on the Saturday. The Clay Bottom Jug Busters headline on Saturday Evening (support TBA).

The Green Dragon Solar Stage uses top-quality modern PA equipment and is powered from the sun. There is a quiet camping area and the amplified music ends at midnight.

Check out our music archive.

Radical Bakers Timetable

A detailed Timetable will be available before the event. This is inevitably subject to change and an updated timetable will be kept on the chalk board outside the Café.

You can arrive from Thursday midday and the café is open Thursday night with music and pizza.

Radical Bakers workshops start at 5pm on Friday with crafts and a few scheduled sessions including a tour of Crabapple. The Gathering Introduction is at Friday 8pm with live music and a bar. It would be great if you could make it to this opening session.

Saturday workshops start at 9am with a few early morning baking and yoga sessions before this. They finish at 6pm with live music from 8, a bar until midnight, a communal fire and acoustic music til 1am.

The workshops on Sunday start at 9am and finish at 4pm with wood-fired pizza from 6pm, a bar and music on Sunday evening. You are welcome to stay until midday Monday.

Buy tickets for Radical Bakers Summer Gathering 2022.

Radical Bakers Summer Gathering, 7-10th July 2022 Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Pay securely with credit or debit cards through Paypal. Ticket prices include booking fees, car parking, camping and access to all the workshops and entertainment. Contact us by email: hello@radicalbakers.org if you have any questions not covered on our Info page. Unfortunately, we can’t ensure that everyone will be a responsible dog owner and so we can’t have dogs at our events. Details of the fully catered option Here. Please read the Terms and Conditions, Covid Response & Safer Spaces policies before buying tickets and be sure you can agree to them.

There are only 100 adult places in 2022. There are no day tickets or tickets on the gate. If the ticket you require is not shown below, it is sold out or not yet on sale. Click ‘add to basket’ once for each ticket required and then click ‘view basket‘ to checkout.