Acid Seasons Autumn: Apple Cider Vinegar Making Workshop

Vinegars are health tonics in themselves, supporting your digestive health, blood glucose and blood levels amongst many other things!

Raw vinegar (with the mother) ususally comes with a high price tag in shops, but once you get to know how to make it, it can be a really lovely and simple practice.

So for the second workshop in our Acid Seasons series we will learn to make Apple Cider Vinegar using the season's bounty of locally scrumped Sheffield apples, contributing to a communal pot as well as making your own to take home with you. We will learn about the double fermentation process, different methods you can use, as well as an insight into our creative production practice.

We will bake together using apples and there will also be tasters of a variety of foraged flavoured vinegar infusions for you to try, as well as other vinegar based refreshments.

PAYMENT INFO:

As with everything we do, we would like this workshop to be accessible to everyone, so will be offering tickets on a sliding scale:

Unwaged: £10
(This will contribute towards the facilitator fee)

Waged: £20
(This will cover all the costs of your place on the workshop)

Pay-it-forward: £30
(This covers costs for the workshop and pays forward to contribute towards the cost of those on a lower or no wage)

How our pay-what-you-can ethos works:
We’ve always been a volunteer-run organisation, and none of our directors currently get paid for everything that goes on behind the scenes. We do, however, like to pay our artists, workshop facilitators, and any other bits of work that are project based or more skills specific. This means that while we’re not grant funded, we rely on ticket and product sales to be able to fund paying people fairly for the work that they do for us, to be able to keep what we do going sustainably and fund future activity!

That being said, nobody will be turned away for a lack of funds, so please get in touch if this is a barrier.

Here’s a link to a useful guide from Andro and Eve about what to think about when you’re working out how much you should pay!

ACCESSIBILITY

There is paid street parking around the location but it does get busy and so walking/public transport is recommended. All city centre busses will stop close to the venue.

ABOUT ACID SEASONS:

As the year spins, different plants and flowers take their turn in the performance. Each season has a unique flavour and herbal offering. Our needs shift and change each season too and the power of the plants available seem to correlate. No matter what the need, being nurtured by our collective mother (of vinegar) always seems to help.

We invite you to warp time with us, partly by slowing down to really notice what’s growing. Partly by preserving each season’s plants in vinegar extractions. Infused vinegars capture a moment in time and the distinct flavours of a specific place - the terroir. Together we will explore the herbal properties of our city’s flora and how they work with us humans. Whilst also going back in time with the flavours of simply-made vinegars like our ancestors have been making for thousands of years. When life turns sour, we embrace it with vinegar.

“In the end, your vinegar becomes more than just a vinegar. You will have established a personal spiritual connection and a sense of place. This is how real food should be” - Pascal Baudar

FAQs:

Q: Are children allowed to come?
A: Yes! Children are very welcome, but must be accompanied by an adult who will be responsible for them, additional donations would be greatly accepted but not compulsary. Please do get in touch if you would like to bring a child as we will only have a limited number of spaces due to the venue capacity
Q: Dietary requirments?
A: We will aim not to include any of the main allergens in the food and will have everything clearly noted if we do, but please do let us know if you have any dietary requirements, we will include this in the info email prior to the event.

Can't wait to get stuck into apple season with you all!

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