Discover the beneficial properties of many commonly available kitchen ingredients and learn how to use them to make your own winter warming digestive and immune system boosting tonic. This workshop will include a discussion of the history of fire cider tonics and apple cider vinegar tonics in general. We will run through the medicinal virtues of each of the chosen ingredients whilst covering other potential substitution ingredients.

You will learn to prepare the ingredients in this hands on workshop and how to preserve them. We will also cover health and safety as well as trouble shooting advice. Finally we will sample a variety of ways to incorporate the fire cider tonic into everyday meals.

Trainer Bio:

Naabi Methe is a degree qualified Naturopath and a registered member of the
Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA). She has
been a committee member of Vic Herbs since 2016 and has volunteered with
Hands on Health and the Fitzroy All Stars. As well as being a
clinician, Naabi manufactures small batch vegan botanical skin care,
medicinal teas and first aid products under the name of Common Garden
Health; runs fermenting and home remedy workshops and blogs about
herbal remedies and food as medicine. Her passion is the use of herbal
medicine and food as medicine to achieve affordable and sustainably
optimal health outcomes, and believes that knowledge is power, and
knowledge about sustainable health practices should be common knowledge
and should be shared. It's also really fun!

What you will learn

The history and beneficial properties of fire cider
How to prepare and preserve your ingredients
How to incorporate fire cider into other recipes

What you will get

Take home your own jar of fire cider

What to bring

Please bring your own jar, notebook and notepad
BYO apron

What to wear

Comfortable clothing.

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