Workshops

WORKSHOPS Workshops on offer currently
  1. Feta, Halloumi and Mozzarella Workshop $75
Cheese glorious cheese!!!🧀 Stop spending good money on cheese when you can make your own. Mozzarella, Haloumi, and Feta are three fresh cheeses that you can learn how to make in your own kitchen without specialised equipment.   You don’t need your own cow to make cheese as shop-bought milk will work just as well. This workshop is aimed at the beginner, and you will soon see that it’s quite easy to make your own delicious cheese from shop-bought milk.  
  1. Sourdough Bread & Fermented Foods Workshop (vegan) hands on sourdough and sauerkraut $75
Learn how to make your own delicious sourdough bread, wraps, pasta, crackers, and fermented foods inc. sauerkraut, fermented bean pate, tomato sauce, fermented mango/ pineapple chutney and fermented fruit paste.   Most of these fermented foods are made on the spot with samples for taste testing for all attendees. Hands on participation from the class volunteers will show how to make sourdough bread and fermented foods from scratch.   Includes: E-Handouts with recipes, sourdough starter, bread dough to bake at home or bake on the day and taste testing.  
  1. Tropical Vegetables in a Food Forest Garden, one day course $90.00
Get ready for a hot summer! Our hot-dry wet summers are perfect for growing tropical vegetables in a food forest garden.   Learn how to grow tropical vegetables in a food forest garden in our hot summers.   Tropical vegetables are ideal in our hot dry/wet summers. We can grow many of our favourite vegetables through most of the year but when the summer heat strikes, most of our plants just seem to wilt away. But this is when we can have abundant yields from sweet potatoes, Cassava, Taro, Cocoyams and so many more!   This exciting way of gardening will give you much pleasure in yielding nutrient-dense food while at the same time creating a microclimate that is pleasant to be in.   Topics:  
  • Tropical vegetables
  • Support plants
  • Food forest gardening intro
  • Permaculture solutions for edible landscapes
  • and more…….
 
  • E-book for plant identification and recipes include
  • Propagate your own plants from the gardens to take home
  Growing Tropical Vegetables in a Food Forest Garden   We will begin with the theory at the hall then at 1 pm we will drive 10 minutes to my place at Black Mountain where we will explore the gardens for propagative material so you can bring plenty of plants how for your garden. Bring your secatuers!   Due to limited bookings, we request that you cancel at least 48 hours before a scheduled class. This gives us the opportunity to fill the class. You may cancel by phone or online here.   If you have to cancel your class, we offer you a credit to your account if you cancel but do not offer refunds. You may use these credits for any future class.   If Covid regulations change, then a full refund is given if the event can’t go-ahead   Morning tea provided.  
  1. Persian Feta, Camembert and Blue Vein Cheese
Cheese glorious cheese!!! Stop spending good money on cheese when you can make your own. Persian Feta, Camembert and Blue Vein Cheese you can learn to make in your own kitchen without specialised equipment. You don’t need your own cow to make cheese as shop-bought milk will work just as well. This workshop is aimed at the slightly advanced cheese maker, but you will soon see that it’s quite easy to make your own specialised cheese from shop-bought milk. Custom workshops 15 people or more
  1. Brie and Sourdough making workshop – hands on sourdough for all $75
Learn how to make your own delicious brie cheese from cow’s milk as well as easy to make scrumptious sourdough bread. Both fermented foods are made on the spot with samples for taste testing for all attendees. Hands on participation from the class volunteers will show how to make brie cheese, and sourdough bread from scratch. Everyone will have dough to knead so bring the aprons! Handouts, sourdough starter, bread dough to bake at home or bake on the day and cheese cultures, a home cheese making DVD and a book on fermentation will be for sale after class.  
  1. Mantecoso cheese, cultured butter, ghee, yoghurt, kefir and sour cream making workshop $75
In this three-hour workshop learn how to make a traditional cheese from Peru – Mantecoso and turn pasteurised milk and cream back into living probiotic foods. We will be making cultured butter, sample cultured buttermilk, and ghee. Yoghurt, kefir, and quark will also be covered as well as sour cream.   Participation is by volunteers in making the feta and the cultured dairy products and tasting of topics covered on the day will be available.   Handouts available and cheese cultures, home cheese making DVD and a book on Fermentation are for sale after class.  
  1. Brie, Camembert and Butterkase making workshop $75
Love soft ripe cheese? Learn how to make your own for very little cost in this 3-hour workshop Permaculture-Realfood. This workshop is aimed at the beginner, and you will soon see that it’s quite easy to make your own delicious cheese from shop bought milk.   All these foods will greatly increase the health of both you and your family as they taste the delicious creations you will soon be making for them. We will have samples for taste testing for all attendees. Hands on participation from the class volunteers will show how to make soft ripe cheese from scratch.   Includes: E-Handouts with recipes. Cheese cultures can also be bought on the day.  
  1. Feta cheese and an intro to fermented foods making workshop $75
Learn how to make your own feta cheese at home in this three-hour workshop as well as taste test fermented foods such as sourdough bread, sourdough pikelets, cultured butter, sauerkraut, fermented fruit paste, fermented bean paste, miso, tempeh, water kefir, beet kvass as well as the feta cheese!   Hands on participation from the class volunteers will show how to make feta cheese, quark, sourdough pikelets and fermented bean paste. Samples and handouts with recipes included.  
  1. Water kefir with Lactic fermentation of vegetables, fruits and beverages making workshop- hands on sauerkraut for all $75 (vegan)
Lactic or wild fermentation is a natural fermentation method that creates zillions of lactic bacteria that are a wonderful source of pro biotics for your inner health.   Learn how make these easy ferments for yourself using water kefir and see how versatile and varied these can be. Ferments such as sauerkraut, kimchi, fermented tomato sauce, fermented fruit paste, fermented carrots with ginger, fruit chutney, cucumber pickles, fermented polenta fingers, nuca doca, and water kefir soft drink.   Participants will be learning how to make these ferments through demonstration by participation from the group. All foods and beverages will be available for taste testing with handouts including all the recipes.  
  1. All Things Sourdough $75
Are you told to avoid grains because of the gluten doing damage to your gut health?   Gluten is a tough protein to digest and over the years it can cause our gut wall to become inflamed and damaged creating a permeable or leaky gut. Gluten can be a compromise for our health, and therefore there are so many glutens free products on the market today. But why not try your hand at making your own sourdough versions of bread, fruit loaf, cake, pasta, wraps, pizza base and crackers!   This three-hour workshop will create most of these sourdough goodies with participants volunteering to take the steps from A to Z. Everyone takes home some rising sourdough and a starter. Plenty of taste testing for all.it    
  1. VEGAN- Non-dairy cheese and dairy products $75
This exciting workshop will have you creating your own vegan versions of cheddar, havarti and brie cheese, almond milk, cashew cream, cultured butter, cream cheese, coco yo and buttermilk. No special equipment needed just a few ingredients from a health shop. You will be surprised how easy it is and not expensive to make, and sooo delicious! Handouts and taste testing included. These hard cheeses are based on almond milk and the sourcream and cream cheese are made on cashew nuts.  
  1. Cultured Vegan cheese $75
Halloumi, Meltable Cheddar, Blue vein, Camembert, Mozzarella, Rich creamy sauce for pasta. These cheeses are based on cashew nuts except for the meltable cheddar and taste and look so good! They are made with cultures and mature and become tastier with aging.   The course will be a mixture of demonstration by volunteer participation with tasting the cheese in the tea break. You will receive an e-handout with all the recipes so that you can get started and make vegan cheeses at home.  
  1. Miso and Tempeh Making Workshop $75
Making your own Miso and Tempeh will add to your health and wellbeing. When you make and eat your own then you know it will be organic and living food.   Learn about the healthy and not so healthy attributes of soy in this workshop. Participants will make the miso and tempeh on the day as well as make up a batch of shoyu sauce and ama koji.   Each participant will take home 2 varieties of miso plus a homemade miso starter. Taste testing of products made for all and handouts with full instructions included.  
  1. Full day of hard cheese making (5 ½ hours) $130
Cheddar, Feta, Camembert, Butter Kase, Neufchattel, and a Whey Cheese.   Learn how to make your own cheddar cheese, feta, camembert, butter kase and some spreading cheese Neufchatel and a whey cheese   Cheese making can be quite complex, but you can easily learn how to make your own hard cheese and let nature be your teacher as you embark on your cheese making journey.   Nothing compares to making your own cheese and the joy of it will be an eating pleasure you can share with your family and friends forever. Whey cheese will also be covered and enjoyed with the lunch. Morning tea and lunch will be provided as well as e- handouts with your cheese making recipes and    instructions.