Families and friends, please JOIN US to celebrate at the Noyo Food Forest’s Sixth Annual Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 21 from noon to 6 at the Learning Garden at Fort Bragg High School, located at 300 Dana Street. This is a FREE, all-ages event supporting the Organic garden and Farm to School program at Fort Bragg High School.
Discover how a community garden enriches all of our lives and take a little piece of Mother Earth home to your own garden and family from our much anticipated Spring Plant Sale. Enjoy live stage performances by Professor Niko Mumblemore, magician extraordinaire; Steven Bates, local guitar rocker; and DJ Ramos, who will be spinning lively tunes to accompany this family-friendly day. There will be face painting and other activities for children, a Community Art Mural Project with FLOCKworks; Culinary Showcase demonstrations and four (4) hands-on Sustainable Living Workshop stages: Gardening & Farming, featuring growing a compost garden; Food Preservation, featuring fermented beverages (kefir, kombucha & soda), kimchee, and Sauerkraut; Raising Farm Animals, featuring chicken tractors, and Survival Skills. Feed your soul with great local foods made available for purchase, such as savory Mendough’s Pizza, Pedal-powered Smoothies, an organic salad bar, barbecued local sausage, and sweet treats.
This is a smoke, drug and alcohol free event. Please, No dogs. Parking is limited, so please carpool, or, ride your bike and enjoy free valet bicycle parking!
This a not-to-be-missed event and a wonderful community tradition.
Our Truly Nourishing Traditional Foods workshop was a blast. 22 people came to learn about ways of preparing food in a way that maximizes nutrition; ways that our ancestors used to prepare food that we have lost knowledge of in our modern food age. Thank you Rachel Levesque for being a wonderful and to all who came to learn and enjoy the food!
Coming up in April we will have a crew of 8 AmeriCorps volunteers here working full time in the garden. We are so excited! They will work on an irrigation project, install a compost garden, install a wheelchair accessible bed, and more. Stay tuned!
Also- Our Earth Day Festival is coming up soon!! Join us on April 21st at The Learning Garden from 12-6pm. Music, local food for sale, plant sale, sustainable living workshops, kids activities, and more!
The second workshop in in our Sustainable Living Series, Truly Nourishing Traditional Foods will be held on Sunday, March 25th from 10-12:30pm. This hands-on workshop will show you how to prepare nutrient dense foods that will nurture and nourish your every cell. Rachel Levesque will cover topics of healing broths, soups and stews, probiotic beverages, soaking and sprouting grains and legumes as well as some very basic fun ways to ferment veggies and fruit.
This friendly class is perfect if you are interested in healthy eating, even if you are not familiar with these traditional ways of food preparation. The methods our ancestors used to prepare food increase absorption and unlock vital nutrients and enzymes as well as destroy anti nutrients that disrupt absorption of vitamins and minerals. Only recently have we lost this important knowledge. Learn how easy it can be to start making real nourishing foods and why it is so important.
Come hungry to snack on fermented veggies and other nutrient dense goodies and enjoy a nourishing soup in the end. Please bring a quart mason jar for making your own fermented vegetables. Kombucha cultures will also be given away so you can try making your own fermented probiotic teas at home.
Workshop cost is $20 and high school students attend free. Please RSVP at 964-0218. The workshop is held at The Learning Garden at Fort Bragg High School, 300 Dana Street in Fort Bragg. From Main St., go East on either Chestnut St. or Oak St. From Chestnut St. go a mile down and turn left onto Dana Street, or from Oak St. go a mile down and right onto Dana St. There is a stop sign in the middle of Dana St., there you will see our sign and turn East down the driveway. Park at the end of the driveway and you will see the garden. Just keep walking a little further down the driveway and you will find the entrance.
