This 1.5 hr tour is perfect for anyone who wants to build a passive solar home & permaculture garden, includes a welcome platter & drinks. Join me! The ticket price is for two people. Purchase multiple tickets for larger groups. Call me on 0487, 063 745, to arrange a date. Ask us questions about how […]
This is a 100% hands on class for 7 people. You will make & take home two loaves of bread. Orto Loaf & Chocolate Savoury Bread. Extremely important to arrive at 8am & NO later :) Learn to make sourdough, it is easy to do. And you don’t need a perfect schedule to make one […]
I love these seasonal events! And I looove chestnuts! Join me & I will take you to harvest chestnuts & I'll show you how to easily prize them from their spiky burrs. We will meet here at ORTO Farm and then a drive to a property laden with chestnut trees. You must wear strong walking […]
Join me for an edible fungi adventure Let's spend a few hours sharing fungi foraging identification skills & fungi facts We will drink hot coffee and tea, and eat scrumptious cake as we talk all things fungi. Then let's cook together and feast on fungi with garlic, balsamic vinegar, oil, thyme and a little butter. […]
Soap making is a rare & very beautiful trade. Learn to make beautiful handmade soap, using readily available kitchen tools, and extract essential oil and hydrosol from oil rich botanicals.There is a strong history of soap making in our local area, and although soap has been made from as early as 3000BC, its relevance is […]
Australian wildflowers are very beautiful and I want you to meet one... it's called Blue Devil. And I want you to bring one, I want you to bring a wildflower of your own, in the form of a special human who you'd like to get to know better. We are going to meet and greet […]
Salami is an extraordinary food with extraordinary flavour and is a superbly clever way to 'preserve' meat. It is quite fascinating really that salami is a fermented food in the way that kimchi, yogurt and cheese are. Meat is minced, mixed with salt, pepper, spices and delicious wine, then emulsified. The mince is packed tightly […]
A stunning cooking class inspired by the work of Samin Nosrat , who has written a book with this title. I was so excited to see this publication. We will be a group of six and I will provide a nurturing environment from which to learn. I will show you how: the way we cut […]
What you will learn I love foraging, I love growing and I want to make the very most of what I find and what I grow. Preserving for beginners offers all the skills needed to preserve the taste of summer, the cool of winter and the red of autumn. This class is jam packed with […]
Garlic you make everything taste good. You are used to flavour krauts, stir fries, sauces, stews. You are rubbed on toast to create bruschetta, crushed into oil to make mayonnaise, stuffed into poultry to flavour chicken, or slow fermented to make black garlic. We love you! Let's harvest garlic together and I will teach you […]