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Fermenting Vegetable Pickles and Condiments
Learn to ferment vegetable pickles and delicious condiments in this hands-on fermenting workshop.
Find out more »Homemade Chevre Cheese
Learn to make chevre goat cheese, a soft and spreadable cheese, in this hands-on workshop.
Find out more »Make Your Own Green Cleaners
Detoxify your home and improve your indoor air quality through learning how to make your own green cleaning products and identifying brands that are truly ecologically and human health friendly.
Find out more »Natural Soap Making
Discover the differences and benefits of “real” natural soap vs the commercial brands through an interactive, hands on workshop, where you will learn the techniques, the ingredients and equipment needed to make your own sudsy bars.
Find out more »Homebrewing: Crafting Your Own Beer and Developing Your Own Recipes
Join us for a steamy, fragrant morning of steeping grains, boiling worts, bubbling hops, and delightful aromas—all in the 3536488_sname of making many people’s favourite beverage, beer! This two-part workshop will explore the process of brewing beer in the first session while the second session will be about sanitation and bottling. Participants will learn about using specialty malted grains, malt extract, and hops, and will leave the second session with bottles of the two styles of ales brewed in the first session.
Find out more »Sour Dough Bread Baking
Join us on a Sunday morning to explore one of the most ancient human activities: baking bread. We will make bread using the no-knead technique.
Find out more »Herbal Medicine and Wildcrafting – CANCELLED
Learn about the ancient art of Wildcrafting and Herbalism. In this 5 hour workshop, interactive and hands-on workshop, you'll learn about herbal medicine, identification, wildcrafting techniques, ethics and picking of herbs, tintures, oils and salves.
Find out more »The Art of Butchery – Pork
Have you ever wanted to learn the skills of butchery? Join us in the 101 hands-on class on how to butcher a pig. Your guide is Jamie Waldron and he has dedicated 15 years of his life to mastering the art & skills of a butcher; working, learning, researching and teaching an age old craft that has fallen out of step in current methods of purchasing and preparing food.
Find out more »DIY Homemade Chocolates
Join Rodrigo Goller on a Monday evening to explore the magic of raw chocolate making. We will make delicious chocolate from simple, raw ingredients, easily and without expensive equipment. You'll go home with knowledge and three trays of raw chocolate!
Find out more »Art of Butchery – Pig
Thepig_diagram Art of Butchery will leave you with a ton of knowledge on butchering an animal. Your guide, Jamie Waldron, has dedicated 15 years of his life to mastering the art and skills of butchery. Through working, learning, researching and teaching, he seeks to revive an age-old craft that has fallen out of step in current methods of purchasing and preparing food.
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