How To Eat Homegrown Food All Year
This voucher offers a priority place on the course at a reduced price, a great way to secure one of the limited places for yourself or to give as a gift to a loved one.
Voucher holders will have first refusal on all 2023 course dates as soon as they are confirmed.
Weekend and weekday courses available 9.30am - 3.30pm
Join Lucy and Mike at Cedarwood Homestead for a day devoted to helping you learn how to plan your garden and cooking to eat homegrown food throughout the year and increase your self sufficiency.
The morning will be spent with Lucy in various locations around the homestead, looking at how you can plan your garden to give yourself the maximum amount of food across the longest period possible..
Topics covered will include:
- What to grow in summer for eating in winter
- The best crops for preserving
- Must-have heavy hitting crops
- Edible perennials for low maintenance year round food
- What to grow over winter and when to sow it
- Making the most of growing under cover and indoors
- A look at the root cellar for electricity free storage
After some light snacks it's into the kitchen for the afternoon with Mike to learn how to make the most of abundant summer harvests so you can enjoy the fruits of your labour all through the year.
Topics covered will include:
- Canning, water bath and pressure.
- Dehydration
- Pickling
- Fermenting
- Curing and smoking
The day will conclude with everyone sitting down in the homestead kitchen to enjoy a meal featuring some of the things you have just learned to make, a great chance to chat with Lucy and Mike and ask any questions that have come up through the day
Please contact us directly prior to purchase if you have any dietary requirements, allergies or accessibility concerns and we will do our best to accommodate you