We’ve all been there – as the temperature outside plummets, your body temperature shoots up. Your nose flows, you suddenly have a frog living in your throat, and it feels like you have a clamp on your head. Welcome to cold & flu season.
Avoid the agony this year with fire cider, a traditional remedy chock full of potent medicinal foods. Since this is a folk recipe, you can experiment with different combinations of ingredients to suit your unique constitution.
Sign the petition to stop the trademarking of this traditional recipe.
Learn more fermented recipes at our Wild Foods & Fermentation Immersion this spring!
Wild Food & Fermentation Workshop with Sandor Katz
May 24 – 30, 2015
This comprehensive workshop is led by the world renowned fermentation expert, and New York Times best selling author, Sandor Katz. He will lead participants in daily hands-on fermentation projects and classes. Along with Sandor, five of Asheville’s top wild food experts will take you on field excursions to discover, taste, and learn how to work with nutritional edibles you can find most anywhere. Demonstrations, lectures, food tastings, and community gatherings will all be included. In this workshop, you will learn how to nourish yourself and heal your body with fermented foods, as well as identify and prepare wild and medicinal edibles that you can integrate into your kitchen and daily diet. If you are a food connoisseur, aspiring naturalist, chef, health professional, urban homesteader, or hungry student, you will gain life-long wisdom from this week-long immersion.
Ashevillage is an organization in Asheville, NC, whose mission is to create community-based, on-the-ground programs, projects and people that foster a vibrant, just, and regenerative world. Their goal is to accelerate the design and implementation of local, nature-based, regenerative systems and thriving community-inspired culture. Their vision is of humanity living by the wisdom of nature in a way that honors and supports life in peaceful, thriving and celebratory cohabitation.
Ashevillage’s programs bring together leading teachers, practitioners, and innovators with participants who want to gain real life skills that can be put into practice in your own lives and communities. Their headquarters is the Ashevillage Sanctuary LLC, a transformed junkyard and crack house turned one-acre, eco-urban, demonstration site, living-learning laboratory and guest house.
Learn more about Ashevillage at ashevillage.org.
Regenerative design workshops worth the trip to Asheville, by Beth Tacular
“Last fall I had the privilege of taking a workshop on regenerative design with natural builder and activist, Janell Kapoor. With her organization, Kleiwerks International, Kapoor has traveled the world teaching people how to transform their homes, gathering spaces, and communities, by building beautiful human-scale spaces by hand, with local materials that are easily attainable and usually free.” Read more.
