Living the Good Life Workshops

Home Grown Beauty

Saturday 19th May 2012

Learn how you can have fabulous ageless skin using herbs for both internal and external use. In this workshop you will learn how to grow, harvest and dry herbs to make nourishing herbal infusions and oils. You will learn how to create anti-aging facial oils, healing ointments, lip balm, a delicious body butter and beautiful coconut oil soap. At the end of this workshop you get to take home some plants and products to keep you looking and feeling amazing.

Mastering the Basics

Saturday 16th June 2012

Learn how to make your own bread (including sourdough) and pasta using all natural, organic or homegrown ingredients. Discover how easy it is to whip up your own wholesome nutritious foods - we will also be discussing gluten sensitivity, yeast vs sourdough fermentation, the glycaemic index and traditional nutrition.

An Introduction to Herbal Medicine the Wise Woman way

Saturday 3rd March 2012

Learn the ‘wise woman’ approach to herbal medicine and healing, how to identify and use common herbs and weeds that are easily grown in New Zealand, plus learn how to 'listen' to the plants and learn directly from them. We will be making basic herbal preparations - food, drinks and medicines for general health and well being.

Preserving your Summer Harvest

Saturday 17th March 2012

Learn many different methods of storing and preserving your abundant summer crops - pickling, preserving, bottling, sun drying, freezing and storing so you can have an abundant supply of high quality produce for the whole year.

Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

Saturday 21st April 2012

A fabulous day of brewing and pickling learning how to make everything from scratch in the most natural way we know, for the most benefit to your health and well being, and to make the most of resources available to you.

This workshop will be a fun filled day of brewing beer, ginger beer, fruit wine, and cider from whole raw ingredients (not kits). We will also make Kombucha tea, sauerkraut and lacto-fermented vegetables. This is a hands-on workshop where you will participate in all the different steps of the brewing and pickling process so you will leave confident to start your own.

Gardening Greenie-Style

New date TBA 2012

Start planning and sowing your summer vegetable garden now. We will be covering site and soil, planning, sowing seeds and caring for seedlings, companion planting, making your own natural fertilizers and sprays, how to make your own nutrient enriched compost, and working with nature using lunar planting and understanding natural weather cycles. You will have to opportunity to plant some seeds for yourself plus take home some vegetable seedlings and companion plants.

If you want to grow nutrient dense food for the health and wellbeing of yourself and your family, this workshop is essential.

The Home Creamery

Next workshop date 2012 TBA

An awesome hands-on workshop making natural yogurt and a selection of cheeses which may include feta, mozzarella, camembert, haloumi, parmesan and blue. We will also have a live demonstration of separating cream and making butter the old fashioned way. We will be working with raw organic cow’s milk from a local source. At the end of this fabulous workshop there will be some home made cheeses to sample plus goodies to take home.

Backyard Beekeeping for Everyone

Next date 2012 TBA

Come and learn how easy it is to keep bees in your back yard (or front garden as the case may be) for pollinating your fruit and vegetable crops and as a source of natural raw honey and beeswax. Bees are an extremely important part of our ecosystem for the continuation of our food crops, and their well being is currently threatened due to unsustainable beekeeping practices world wide. Learn what you can do to help turn this around.