Fermentation, Food Culturing and Medicine Making

  Canada

• Ottawa: 
Ottawa

Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Dates: Fall of 2010: September 26-October 1

Description: This is the time of bounty when we prepare for winter, harvesting and storing food to get us through the lean months. Learn about our honey bees; Forage for roots, collect seeds and participate in food and medicine preservation; canning, fermenting and dehydrating. Make beer and wine, vinegar, kombucha, kimchi and sauerkraut, many other fermented products; Learn about drying, storing and processing of different herbs, and how to make salves and tinctures for your winter stock. We like to share the preserves and herb products we make, as well as our live cultures of keifer, and sourdough bread starter, so you'll leave richer then you came. Please bring mason jars, and tinted glass containers if you can.

Highlights: One of the most unique aspects of the workshops is that they are small scale and take place at The Algonquin Tea Co. farm, where Steven, Megan, their son Oscar, and the seasonal interns live. As a participant you get to experience 'a day in the life' at the farm, directly seeing hundreds of details about 'living off the land'. And this is on top of the intensive learning and immersion into the world of that weeks workshop. Participants are not isolated is a sterile room and rushed from one isolated teaching to another, but rather are immersed into the flow of the day, into different aspects of the living world in a integrated way, and then given time and space to reflect and replenish before the next experience.

Cost in US$: 380 USD

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Canada Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Phone Interview

Earth Wisdom Centre's Mission Statement: The dream of Little Black Bear is to help people reconnect with the Earth, and learn through hands on experience how to live with her in a harmonious and sustainable way. The workshops are facilitated by leading and internationally recognized teachers.

Year Founded: 2005