Earth Café Program

Celebrate the beauty of the world we eat!

Earth Cafe – Spring Series 2010

Offered: April 3, May 1 & June 5 – 9:30am to 5:30pm
Location: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, California
Instructors: Carin McKay, K. Ruby Blume, and Savrah Kramer

Eating for the well-being of ourselves and the planet

• Deepen your connection with nature
• Celebrate the bounty of homegrown and local food
• Create healthier eating habits

Eating may be the most intimate relationship we have with the natural world.  When we make conscious and well-informed choices about the food we eat, we can create health and well-being for ourselves and for the planet.  

For many of us, simply creating healthy eating habits is overwhelming.  How do we create eating habits that give nourishment back to the earth, as well? 

The Earth Café is a practical, interactive, personalized program that will empower you to build a healthier lifestyle, for yourself and for the planet, through the exploration of food.  The program weaves together hands on gardening, culinary and food-crafting skills, nutritional education, as well as nature based personal wellness practice. The program will inspire you to deepen your relationship with food, strengthen your personal health, and develop a deeper connection to the natural world.

Key elements of the Earth Café Program include:

• Seed to Table:  Want to begin growing some of your own food?  We will explore basic techniques of home-scale vegetable gardens, urban homesteading, honey cultivation, caring for goats and chickens, and more. 

• Regenerative Kitchen:  Discover traditional food culture integrated with modern nutrition. Participants will harvest directly from our gardens, as well as forage wild foods. You will learn to choose the highest quality cultivated foods for your health needs. There will be cooking demonstrations and hands on skill building – from meal planning to food preparation.

• Traditional Food crafting:  Prepare delicious high quality products like sourdough bread, cheese, pickles, preserves, and other traditional, naturally processed foods easily at home.

• Inner Ecology:  Learn nature-based practices to strengthen your health and overcome common ailments at home.  Design a regenerative health plan for yourself, and receive support in paired sharing exercises to help you implement your food and wellness plan during each three-month program. Explore plant medicine, simple remedies and home care, healing with the seasons, movement and energy practices skills to understand and balance your health.

• Study:  There will be a list of recommended books that you can read along as you take the course to help inspire your food adventures.

Check out Carin McKay making Nettle Goat Cheese Quiche on the Hippy Gourmet!

Location

The course takes place at Commonweal Garden, our 17-acre permaculture demonstration site in Bolinas, on the northern California coast. Nestled into its own quiet valley, the site features multiple grey water systems, production green house, ponds, seasonal stream, springs, a yurt classroom, goats, sheep, and chickens, and a Registered Organic production garden.

What To Know

Our What To Know page has information on things you will need to know for your time at Commonweal Garden, including directions.

Course Fees

All fees must be paid in full prior to the start of class.

$375 for three part series

Early bird discount: 
$325 for three part series, paid in full by February 26

Registration

Register on-line and pay via credit card or check.
Registration closes March 19.

Regenerative Design Institute
P.O. Box 923
Bolinas, CA 94924

For questions or additional information, contact:
415·868 9681 voicemail or email us

Refund Policy
Cancellations up to 2 weeks before the workshop will be refunded, excluding a $50 processing fee.