Our new 2014 Spring Workshop Series is now posted and open for REGISTRATION HERE.
Improve your homesteading kitchen skills with topics such as cultured foods (sourdough, sauerkraut & kimchi, kombucha, and yogurt/kefir making); learn more about how to identify and use wild edible plants; work on a permaculture design for your yard! We look forward to hosting all these workshops again and hope to see you there. All workshops are held right here at our little homestead in the city Little City Farm, in Kitchener.
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SAT, MARCH 15 from 1-4 pm - INTRO TO TRADITIONAL SOAP MAKING
Cost: $50 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
With Karin Kliewer, from Little City Farm.
Learn to make beautiful all-natural healing soaps using
nourishing oils, organic botanicals, and pure essential oils. During
this popular busy hands-on workshop each participant will make their own
2 lb batch of cold process soap from scratch using recipe and
ingredients provided. We'll talk about various soap making techniques,
where to source ingredients, and the properties that various
ingredients such as clays, botanicals, oils and essential oils add to
your soap. Participants will need to bring a few simple supplies.
NEW THIS YEAR: Participants have the option to purchase a handcrafted wooden
soap mold from Little City Farm in advance. More details
about what to bring will be provided upon registration.
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SAT, MARCH 22 from 1-2:30 pm – CULTURED KITCHEN SERIES: SAUERKRAUT & KIMCHI
Cost: $35 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
Learn about the health benefits of making live-cultured ferments at
home. In this practical hands-on workshop we'll be making a batch of
sauerkraut and kimchi from scratch. You'll leave with all the knowledge
you need to make delicious successful cabbage ferments at home. Take
home jar of sauerkraut/kimchi – all supplies, instruction and recipes
provided. Please bring an apron, cutting board and knife.
SAT, APRIL 5 – from 1-3 pm - CULTURED KITCHEN SERIES: YOGURT MAKING
Cost: $35 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
Learn about the benefits of live-cultured foods, including homemade
yogurt. In this practical hands-on workshop we'll be making a batch of
yogurt, and yogurt cheese. Take home jar of live cultured yogurt and
bowl of yogurt cheese! Please bring apron, thick towel, stainless steel
bowl and colander. All supplies, instruction and recipes provided.
SAT, APRIL 12 - from 1-3 pm - CULTURED KITCHEN SERIES: SOURDOUGH STARTERS
Cost: $35 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
Make beautiful healthful sourdough bread from your own starter at
home! The sourdough process uses wild yeast and fermentation, and often
this type of bread is more digestable than bread made with commercial
yeast. Learn how to maintain a sourdough starter, benefits of eating
sourdough bread, and other ways to use your starter (e.g. pancakes,
muffins). Experience the sourdough bread making process from start to
finish, take home your own jar of sourdough starter and taste samples of
sourdough bread. All supplies, instruction and recipes provided.
Please bring along an apron.
SAT, APRIL 26 - from 10-11:30 am - FELTED SOAP!
Cost: $25 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
Felted soap combines soap with washcloth, all in one! Learn the art
of making beautiful felted soap with natural wool, dyed in colourful
shades. In this hands-on workshop participants will learn about wet
felting, and each make 2 small bars of felted soap to take home. All
supplies and instruction provided. Bring apron or old clothes.
Children aged 5+ welcome if accompanied by an adult (if you wish to
bring your child please notify us in at time of registering).
SAT, APRIL 26 - from 1-3 pm - INTRO TO PERMACULTURE
Cost: $25 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
With Tracie Seedhouse of Earthchild Design
Permaculture is a design system that incorporates agriculture,
culture and sustainability to create a self-sustaining, life enhancing
landscape/lifestyle. In this practical workshop you will be walked
through the basic principles of permaculture, look at some examples of
permaculture at Little City Farm, and have the opportunity to use these
concepts to work on design ideas for your own garden/yard. Supplies,
instruction and resources provided. Bring along a pencil/pen/marker and
coloured pencils for simple sketching. This is an outdoor workshop, so
please dress for the weather (we will move indoors in case of extreme
weather)
SAT, MAY 10 - from 1-3 pm - WILD SPRING EDIBLES
Cost: $25 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
With Jackie McMillan, local wild foods educator.
This popular annual workshop teaches you all about how to find,
safely identify, carefully harvest, and prepare wild spring edibles for
eating. We'll talk about wild foods such as wild leeks, dandelion,
fiddleheads, wood sorrel, violets, burdock root, and many other commonly
found edible greens, flowers, roots and herbs. Taste delicious samples
as part of this workshop. Please dress for the weather as this is an
outdoor workshop.
SAT, JUNE 15 - from 1-3 pm - CULTURED KITCHEN SERIES: KOMBUCHA
Cost: $35 - Limited space - pre-registration required.
With Jon Spee.
Kombucha is an ancient probiotic tea beverage
that is delicious and nourishing. Luckily it just takes a few ingredients
and supplies and can be made at home. Learn about the art of fermenting
Kombucha, taking care of a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast),
adding flavours, and bottling, as well as a few other naturally fermented
beverages that can be made at home. Workshop will be hands on and
attendees will leave with their own batch of Kombucha started and ready to
ferment at home. Instruction, recipes and supplies provided. Please bring an apron.
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