Wholesome Introduction to Foraging, Sun Drying Workshop + Potluck + day of sustainable workshops!

Name: Wholesome Introduction to Foraging, Sun Drying Workshop + Potluck + day of sustainable workshops!
Start: 2025-02-01T11:00:00+13:00
End: 2025-02-02T21:00:00+13:00
Location: Wellington,Nz

Schedule

Sat, 01 Feb, 2025 at 11:00 am to Sun, 02 Feb, 2025 at 09:00 pm

UTC+13:00

Location

Wellington,Nz | Porirua, WG

Foraging Workshops coming to Wellington on the 1rst and 2nd of February, we need a few more people to proceed! We will be learning about more sustainable ways of living. NO NEED FOR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE WE’LL LEARN EVERYTHING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 3 workshops are planned for the first day and 2 for the second day with a healthy food potluck in between the workshops! Come for the whole day or 1 or two workshops! Registration is essential, 20$pp per workshop, there are few free places or koha/veg from the gardens for those who cannot afford or would want to simply opt to share some energy in this way. all good just let me know while registering in pm or by email: [email protected]
Let me know how many ppl are attending, what workshops are you after, your phone number.
Come for the whole day with the potluck or just one or two workshops.
Workshops of the day: FORAGING PART 1 (WHOLESOME INTRODUCTION), Sun Drying - ancient zero waste and cost way to preserve your food, Foraging part 2 (continuation of part 1).
+ please bring a healthy food platter for a potluck (wholefoods or food from your garden) to keep us going for the whole day and a cuppa, some water will be great too).
I'm hitchhiking all the way from Chch to Whangarei and back to Chch with a purpose to pass on knowledge, spread Natural Intelligence (NI:) around, I m doing that to meet you guys, hoping that it contributed ms a bit for a better world. who is with me willing to learn?
Workshops of day one are: FORAGING PART 1 (WHOLESOME INTRODUCTION), Sun Drying - ancient zero waste and cost way to preserve your food, Foraging part 2 (continuation of part 1).
+ please bring a healthy food platter for a potluck (wholefoods or food from your garden) to keep us going for the whole day and a cuppa, some water will be great too).
Workshops description:

Foraging part 1
Wholesome introduction to foraging
Duration: 3 hours
This is a very wholesome
introductory workshop that will give an in depth understandings about plants and why foraging can help to live a healthier life and help our planet to thrive when one adds it to a lifestyle.
We will talk about where plants come from and what their life purpose is. We will learn some tools to help us with identification and understanding when we could harvest what. We will start with the asteraceae family and then explore several different plants from different families.
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SUN DRYING WORKSHOP
While canning and preserving (including refrigeration & freezing) are extremely energy-consuming processes (relatively recent inventions of the industrial revolution time), sun drying is one of the oldest and most sustainable methods to preserve food dating back several thousands of years.
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FORAGING PART 2
In this part we do a quick recap of what we had learnt in the part 1 and continue to dive even further into the plant world with the help of the brassica family and then we will explore several different families.
______________________On Day two:
1rst workshop: Weaving water bottle/plant holders out of Harakeke/flax
2nd workshop of the day weaving arm/shoulder bracelets out of harakeke/flax
with a healthy potluck in between and after the workshops
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Feel free to come with your family,friends, neighbours and furry companions, please share this event.
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I encourage everyone to walk, cycle or bus to the event as part of the experience and help not to impact the environment. I will have some special gifts for the ones who do 🌻💚
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Please allow enough time to immerse into the workshop with no rush"
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REGISTRATION IS Essential for further details (I ll send you the adress, and exact timings for the workshops closer to the day)
20$ per person per workshop, children are free, animals welcome.
You are welcome to choose to share some veggies or produce from your garden, and If not possible just let me know via email when registering at [email protected]
Please provide your name, phone number, how many people are attending and which area you will be coming from.
all workshops will proceed from 10 people onwards
About your guide: Good day, my name is Inga and I travelled a good part of the world with no savings just supporting myself playing music when anxiety wasn’t taking the best of me. I was looking for some healthier lifestyle that would be truly contributing to a better world and foraging and growing seems to be truly bringing more balance, reconnection with nature , teaching resilience, independent thinking, ingenuity yet it also connects people with their authentic selves and other people too. I find both foraging and growing are like yin and yang - none is the answer yet both balance each other and complement when it's necessary. I believe adding bit by bit all the understandings from the workshops helps our world be a better place, helps with mental and physical health while reconnecting us with our true purpose. Hope you have a lovely day, looking forward to meeting you
Dates of the Natural Intelligence (NI:) tour 8th Jan to 8 Feb
List of places:
8th January Kaikoura
10 Picton
15 Taupo
16 Rotorua
18,19 Auckland
23/24 potentially Kawa Kawa, kerikeri, kaitaia
25,26 Whangarei
29th Hamilton
30th, 31 Palmerston North
1,2 Feb Wellington
3 Feb Picton, Feb Nelson, Feb Motueka, Feb Karamea
8 Feb Christchurch
Unless there is enthusiasm further down south? Make sure to let me know🌻