Friends Meeting House, 4500 Kensington Ave.  (Kensington & Commonwealth Aves.)    

$3.00

7:00 p.m. program; 6:00 p.m. potluck

Emilie Tweardy of ShireFolk Farm and the Shenandoah Permaculture Institute is a farmer of Certified Naturally Grown produce and mushrooms. She also teaches Permaculture, a design science that patterns nature to create intentional, elegant, regenerative systems in the greater Richmond area and the Shenandoah Valley. She has been fermenting for health, flavor and fun for over 10 years. She focuses on vegetable fermentation, with experience that ranges from small batches at home in pint jars, to commercial batches in multiple 50-gallon drums. In teaching fermentation, she hopes to inspire and empower students to begin their fermentation journey.

Emilie will be teaching a 1-hr overview of how to make and tend to sauerkraut and other vegetables using a foolproof method of weighing and salting.  There will be a brief introduction to fermentation where she'll talk a bit about what fermentation actually is and does, demystify the term "lactofermentation", and touch on food sovereignty.  She'll go over her preferred, tried-and-true method of making krauts, and how to care for your ferment while it's in-process and once it's finished.  Attendees can expect to leave with the knowledge and confidence to go home and get started fermenting and eating their own krauts.

For information and reservations contact us here.

Please bring a VEGAN dish and your own place setting.