Workshops at Wild Willow Farm
Got skills you want to share? Contact us about teaching a workshop!
 Austin Durant of the Fermenter's Club leading a fermentation workshop in October at the farm. Participants learned about a host of traditional techniques for fermenting vegetables. |
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Upcoming Workshops
Cooking with the Harvest
This wonderful vegetarian cooking class on the farm. Class includes instruction from a professional culinary instructor, is a totally fun demonstration, and everyone get to enjoy farm fresh produce (direct from the source) at its best!
For any other questions about this class or private classes, please contact Chef Jenn at (858) 212- 9054 or follow me on twitter Chef_Jenn www.chefjenncooks.blogspot.com
- Date: Saturday May 19th at 3p
- Cost: Suggested donation of $10-20 at the door.
- Instructor: Chef Jenn
- Details: You'll learn all steps of the cooking process from beginning to end, and recipes are provided for you to take home. Menus are to be determined, by Mother Nature! Classes will be held outdoors with organic produce supplied by WWF and Suzie's Farm. We will have a sample CSA box from Suzie's Farm on hand and be using ingredients from that week's box in our menu.
For any other questions about this class or private classes, please contact Chef Jenn at (858) 212- 9054 or follow me on twitter Chef_Jenn www.chefjenncooks.blogspot.com
Summer Fermentation Workshop
Fermentation is an age-old way to preserve food that's making a huge comeback! Besides preservation, fermentation offers many health benefits, both to you and to the earth! Come learn the basics of fermenting food, start your first batch yourself and take it home with you. You'll be hooked after the first taste!
Date: June 9th, 12-1:30p
Cost: Suggested Donation is $10-20 per person to attend the workshop. You can take a hands-on lesson in fermenting and take home your own 1-gallon jar of fermented veggies for an additional $12
Instructor: Austin Durant, Founder, Fermenters Club.
Details: During the workshop, you'll learn about the basics and benefits of food fermentation; what Fermenters Club is doing locally and globally to promote this lost art, and see a demo on starting a seasonal vegetable ferment. Then you’ll have a chance do it yourself! Stick around to roll up your sleeves and start your own ferment from fresh, local, vegetables, and you’ll have the opportunity to keep a one-gallon jar of pickles!
Date: June 9th, 12-1:30p
Cost: Suggested Donation is $10-20 per person to attend the workshop. You can take a hands-on lesson in fermenting and take home your own 1-gallon jar of fermented veggies for an additional $12
Instructor: Austin Durant, Founder, Fermenters Club.
Details: During the workshop, you'll learn about the basics and benefits of food fermentation; what Fermenters Club is doing locally and globally to promote this lost art, and see a demo on starting a seasonal vegetable ferment. Then you’ll have a chance do it yourself! Stick around to roll up your sleeves and start your own ferment from fresh, local, vegetables, and you’ll have the opportunity to keep a one-gallon jar of pickles!
Natural Building: Part 2
All structures start with a strong foundation: we have the frame up, and now it's time to finish the reinforcing and thatching!
Paul Maschka teaches organic agriculture at San Diego City college and is co-manager of the Seeds at City Urban Farm on campus. He is retired after seventeen years working at the San Diego Zoo Horticulture Department as Lead Organic Horticulturist. Paul is a passionate conservationist - he studies, practices and lectures on a number of environmental topics including organic urban food production (edible landscaping), biointensive gardening, mycology (cultivation of culinary mushrooms), water conservation (rain water harvesting), beekeeping and urban bee rescue, composting, vermiculture (worm farming), native habitat restoration, home grown, home made, and whole live foods (cheese, canning, kimchi, tempeh, honey).
- Date: Saturday, June 30th, 10a-2p
- Cost: $50, $45 for Friends of the Farm. Attendees of Part I in August 2011 receive half-off.
- Instructor: Paul Maschka
- Details: Join us for Part 2 of our natural building series (attendees are not required to have attended the previous workshop). At our previous workshop we used Arundo donax to frame the building of a new structure in the middle of our first field. Join us as we now work to finish off this beautiful structure. We'll do some lashing techniques for the framing and for the thatching. This type of experience is truly life changing. A number of the plants usable for natural building are non-native and abundant. Some examples are Mexican Fan Palms (Washingtonia robusta) good for roofing, Giant Reed (Arundo donax) it resembles a wild bamboo, Salt Cedar (Tamarix) long strait logs and many varieties of Eucalyptus with logs and branches of all sizes. Many of our native plants (such as willows) are fast growing and renewable and were use extensively by the local Native Americans. In this workshop we'll will construct a shade structure at Wild Willow Farm using de-barked round poles, woven willow branches, Arundo canes and fan palm fronds---All harvested right from the farm!. We will practice the art of cordage making by hand, lashing techniques , joinery using wooden dowels, preserving wood naturally and bracing.
- Please Bring: Water, Food for pot luck lunch Sun hat, Comfortable gloves, Close toed shoes
- Other things to bring if you have them: Machete, hand pruners, long handled pruners, pruning saw, saw horses, 6 foot and 8 foot step ladder, Hand operated auger with bits
Paul Maschka teaches organic agriculture at San Diego City college and is co-manager of the Seeds at City Urban Farm on campus. He is retired after seventeen years working at the San Diego Zoo Horticulture Department as Lead Organic Horticulturist. Paul is a passionate conservationist - he studies, practices and lectures on a number of environmental topics including organic urban food production (edible landscaping), biointensive gardening, mycology (cultivation of culinary mushrooms), water conservation (rain water harvesting), beekeeping and urban bee rescue, composting, vermiculture (worm farming), native habitat restoration, home grown, home made, and whole live foods (cheese, canning, kimchi, tempeh, honey).
Oyster Mushrooms Cultivation
Help us grow the farm and learn all you need to know to cultivate your own oyster mushrooms at home! You’ll even be able take home a 1lb bag of mushroom culture upon completion of the workshop!
SoCal Shrooms is one of the newest partners of Wild Willow Farm & Education Center. A portion of SoCal Shrooms’ profits will directly fund our educational programs, while also providing WWF interns valuable learning experience and employment opportunities.
- Dates: Saturday, July 7th 11a-2p.
- Cost: Cost is $30 per person ($25 for Friends of the Farm) to attend the workshop. You will make and take home your own starter kit of oyster mushrooms to grow at home!
- Instructor: Chris Young, Owner & Founder, SoCal Shrooms
- Details: During the workshop you'll learn all about the life cycle of oyster mushrooms - how long they take to grow and when to harvest them. Participants will also have a hands on experience of starting oyster mushrooms from the beginning to the end. Be prepared to prep the growing medium which includes breaking the straw down into smaller pieces and pasteurizing it. We will then dry it, seed it, and pack it for growing. By the time you are done with the workshop you'll be ready to start growing them at home. Make sure to bring your favorite oyster mushroom recipe to share!
SoCal Shrooms is one of the newest partners of Wild Willow Farm & Education Center. A portion of SoCal Shrooms’ profits will directly fund our educational programs, while also providing WWF interns valuable learning experience and employment opportunities.
Details coming soon for these workshops...
- June 24th, 10a-1p: Midieval Mead (honey wine), the world's first fermented libation with Paul Mashka. $55. Take away 1 gallon to ferment at home.
We're scheduling a WHOLE BUNCH of workshops for the Spring and Summer. Stay tuned for more details!
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