Medicinal Oxymels & Vinegars

Medicinal Vinegars and Oxymels

Especially if you cannot take alcoholic tinctures, this workshop will show you how to extract and preserve the many and varied beneficial medicinal qualities of plants. Recipes for delicate, yet potent home made medicinal vinegars and oxymels will lend you their power and confidence to support your and your family's health. You'll go away with two gorgeous jars of precious herbal gifts you will have manifested during the workshop.

Coming from a long line of Greek medicine women, Elle has treasured the traditions handed down from her own great grandmother, rediscovered in long-forgotten, dog-eared, time-stained journal pages. Elle is an experienced Naturopath with additional specialist IBS/FODMAP training from Monash University, and a certified GAPS™ practitioner, trained with Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride, founder of GAPS™.

Limited places, by prior paid booking only - please book early!

Why not gift this bubbling experience to a friend? Purchase an extra ticket for a buddy or a gift voucher for a loved one.

This workshop is suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

(Note: the workshop takes place in a farm kitchen where dairy, meat and poultry food items are prepared).

Workshop starts at 10am and finishes at 1pm – 3hrs duration

• Come to the farm kitchen around 10mins before we are due to start to register, settle and have a drink
• Tickets limited to 8 adult participants, no children. If you are interested in a children’s workshop, we can organise these - please let us know so we can notify you when these are scheduled.
• Teas, coffee and filtered water will be available for the participants

What's included in the workshop cost:

• Fresh organic/biodynamic herbs and spices and raw apple cider vinegar
• Recipe sheets
• One each of 500ml herbal vinegar and one oxymel you will have made during the workshop to take away in your jars (or in fermentation-grade, clip-top jars you can purchase at the workshop)
• Refreshments (teas, coffee and filtered water)

Participants need to bring their own:

• Apron
• A hairband, bandana or other means of keeping hair out of the way
• Sharp knife
• Chopping board*
• 2 x 300ml jars to take away the herbal gifts you will have made (or purchase jars at the workshop**)
• Optional: Your own favourite herbs and spices to flavour your vinegar and oxymel. Please check the allergens list further down this page to make sure you do not bring any potential allergens to the workshop
• A jar of your favourite runny honey (or you can preorder honey - see below)

What you can purchase at the workshop (please pre-order via email):

• (*) Acacia hardwood chopping blocks beautifully crafted and sturdy will last you for years (email to pre-order) £48 each
• (**) Kilner clip-top jars (email to pre-order) £6 each
• Fermentation weights (soda lime glass, food-safe weights) (email to pre-order) £10 each
• Raw honey (runny honey from local beekeepers) (email to pre-order) 

We accept cash on the day.

PLEASE NOTE:

The Tablehurst Farm Kitchen does not have level/wheelchair access.

The Tablehurst Farm Shop and Café are closed on Sundays.

Tablehurst is a working farm with livestock. We ask that, if you have a dog and take it for a walk around the farm, it is always kept on a lead and not allowed near livestock. In addition, please make sure you dispose of any dog waste safely and away from farm land. Dog waste may harbour infectious and parasitic agents harmful (and potentially deadly) to livestock.

Please read:

Notice on allergens: the workshop takes place in a farm kitchen where gluten, dairy, nuts, meat, and poultry food items are prepared. However, the fizzy drinks workshop does not include any of the major allergens as listed in Annex II (1169/2011) of the EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation:

Cereals containing gluten (wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, Kamut and their hybridised strains); Crustaceans (e.g. crab, lobster, crayfish, shrimp, prawn); Eggs; Fish; Peanuts; Soyabeans; Milk; Tree Nuts (e.g. Almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, brazils, pistachios, macadamias); Celery & Celeriac; Mustard; Sesame seeds; Sulphites (at concentrations of 10ppm); Lupin; Molluscs (e.g. mussels, oysters, squid).

Refund & Cancellations Policy: No refunds given with less than 5 working days’ notice because all fresh produce needs to be ordered in advance. If you cannot make the day due to unforeseen circumstances, a future workshop spot may be made available, as long as we have notice from you before or on the day of the workshop you were due to attend. Please get in touch as a matter of priority to let us know. If you have any questions or if you need to get in touch before the workshop, you can email or call Elle on 07490 950972. In the unlikely event we have to cancel the workshop, a full refund will be given.

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