Traditional Foodways
We seek to keep traditional foodways alive by helping people rediscover the skills of growing and preparing their own food. Through cooking classes and hands-on experiences, we share practical knowledge about cultivating food, working with seasonal ingredients, cooking from scratch, and preserving what the land provides. We hope to make nourishing food feel more accessible and inspire individuals and families to become more connected to where their food comes from and more capable of providing it for themselves.
Tenants of Our Classes + Experiences
Like a traditional folk school, our traditional foodways classes and experiences serve as a community-centered place for learning practical skills, traditional crafts, and cultural knowledge—not for earning degrees or certifications. The emphasis is on learning for life, not for credentials.
We offer:
Hands-on learning. You learn by practice; making, building, butchering, dreaming, birthing, singing, cooking, and cultivating ancient ecological skills.
No grades or tests. We are not performance or competition driven. We do not promote climbing ladders, hierarchy, credentialing or traditional licensing.
Community over competition. Everyone has knowledge to share and we honor the sharing of power between facilitator and student. We do not promote hierarchical models of learning and honor the vulnerability of students coming to learn.
Place-based. Our curriculum grows out of the local landscape, history, ecology, culture, knowledge, and people who are committed to ethical practices of place.