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WAPF Calendar 2008
November 9-15
Brasstown, NC: "Fermenting Foods:A Live Culture
Experience with Sandor Katz"
a one-week hands-on cooking class that includes fermenting techniques
and
recipes from cultures around the world and Sandor's extensive knowledge
of
the subject, Sandor Katz, instructor. Room, board and camping available.
More information at www.folkschool.org
.
November 12,
North Andover, MA: Andover area chapter meetings at North Parish
Church Chapel (downstairs, in the back) in North Andover, Mass. Topic:
Nourishing our kids: traditional foods tell us what kids need to thrive.
Presentation will cover some theory and some how-to, including recipes.
November 22, 2008
Viroqua, WI: Introduction to Home Cheese Making Join Herbalist,
cheese maker and whole food enthusiast Linda Conroy and find out how
simple it is to make cheese in your own kitchen. We will create and
sample several simple styles of cheese that you can easily replicate
at home. Includes samples, cheese to take home, recipes, a culture to
get you started and whole food lunch. Offered through the driftless
folk school. For more information see www.driftlessfolkschool.org
or call (608) 637-3550.
December 1, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Great Falls, VA: Have a Ho Ho-listic Holiday Workshop at The
Conscious Bean Café. Join us for a workshop, where Vandana Purohit,
Holistic Health Counselor
will discuss how to stay centered and healthy during the holidays. Learn
simple steps you can take to maximize fun and health for yourself and
your
family this holiday season, including how to nourish and sustain yourself
for holiday chores, parties, and family get-togethers, what to do when
you're surrounded by SAD (Standard American Diet) holiday foods, and
how to
enjoy holiday meals without feeling heavy and bloated afterwards.
Space is limited. For more information or to RSVP, please visit group
meetup
site: http://www.meetup.com/WholeNutrition/
Jan 9-11
Richmond, VA: The Oiling of American and Seminar on Traditional
Diets by Sally Fallon. Contact: (804) 314-9141,
.
January 10
Carrollton, GA: Rolling Hills Resource Conservation & Development
Council and the Carroll County Cooperative Extension Service are pleased
to announce a sustainable agriculture program being offered called the
Sustainable Growers School.
This program is designed to teach new and existing growers sustainable
farm and land conservation practices. This exciting program is taught
at the Carroll County Extension Service Office in Carrollton, Ga. and
on local farms that employ sustainable and organic practices. SGS utilizes
classroom, lab and field work as practical elements in educating its
students in sustainable and organic production management and marketing
practices.
The course consists of 4 core session and two 3 session elective tracks.
The class runs alternate Saturdays starting January 10th. Mentoring
opportunities will be available throughout the class.
For more information contact Mike Gilroy at 678-787-6227 or at
or visit the website at TheGrowersSchool.Org.
Scholarships for limited resource farmers are available.
January 14th, 21st, 28th and February 4th, 11th and 18th, 2009
Sheboygan, WI: Simple Living Series 2009 Traditional Food and
Herb ProgramThis series will offer participants the opportunity to learn
andenhance a variety of time honored skills. We will make cheese, fermented
foods and beverages, herbal soap and handcrafted herbal wares. You will
learn to cook with herbs as well as wild and whole foods and make soap
for your own use. Participants will leave with a notebook of recipes,
cultures for making cheese and fermented foods at home as well as herbal
soap that we craft together. There will be lots of samples for inspiration
and fun!! For more information see www.moonwiseherbs.com
Jan 30-Feb 1
Westford, MA: Westford Regency Inn and Conference Center. Fourfold
Path to Healing Conference featuring Tom Cowan, MD, Jaimen McMillan
and Sally
Fallon. Contact: (240) 379-7072. www.fourfoldhealing.com
Feb 27-Mar 1
Chapel Hill, NC: Real Food Real Medicine conference featuring
Joel Salatin and Sally Fallon. Contact: (919) 932-6262 ext 10,
, www.realfoodrealmedicine.com
Mar 20-22
Portland, OR: Second Annual NTP Conference-Thinking About Food:
Nutrition and Mental Health, sponsored by Nutritional Therapy ASsociation,
Inc., featuring Sally Fallon, Seminar on Traditional Diets and The Oiling
of
America. Contact: (800) 918-9798, www.nutritionaltherapy.com/SeminarsandEvents.htm.
July 8-29, 2009
Coon Valley, WI: Women’s 3 Week Herbal/Earthways Resdential
Apprenticeship Program. Some of what you will learn will be ways to
incorporate herbs and wild edibles into daily life, skills for Identifying,
harvesting and using local wild herbs,
techniques for growing herbs for food and medicine, how to create optimum,
nutrition with traditional food preparation, how to make and use herbal
remedies, herbs for particular body systems, approaches to connecting
with the natural world, apersonal materia medica, skills and confidence
in sorting through health care options and how to be an advocate for
healing, and an understanding of health with a focus on seasonal cycles
and patterns. For more information www.moonwiseherbs.com
or call (920) 457-9290.
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