Fourth Annual Heritage Food Festival

Join us this fall for Heritage Food Fest; November 6-9th (8 AM-10 AM) at Terrapin Hill Farm where we celebrate food and herbal medicine for personal, family, and community sovereignty. This is a festival bringing forward lessons from surviving in the mountains for centuries before the arrival of box stores.

Our keynote speaker this year will be Andrew Bentley who many of you met last year. His clinical expertise and wildcrafting skills are deep, gathered over decades from both oldtimer teachers and modern scientific tools and communities of practice. Also back by popular demand, we will learn the gardening technique of Susana Lein, who has turned Salamander Springs Farm from a hardpan clay thicket on a ridge in Rockcastle County to one of the most productive small acreage off-grid homesteads in North America. YouTube is great and all, but come see us in person where you can ask questions, catch the wisdom in an off-hand off-camera remark, and enjoy all that face to face time brings. Gather with people working through the same questions you are– ferment for health of the body and for the society, starting seeds of change and improving fertility of the soil we plant them in…

Expect opportunities to learn about growing, gathering, processing, preparing, preserving, and sharing food suited to our home lands. Then go home like past participants and make the cheese, start the hives! Whether you favor tamales, chicharrones and manteca– tamales prepared by our friend Irma whose instruction and delicious product delighted fest goers last year– or hoecakes, cracklins and lard; come fix some with us this Fall. Let’s each take the next step towards greater self-sufficiency, food sovereignty, and the recovery of lost know-how. May our community sprout like old time seeds: grown not for uniformity and long-term storage, but for taste, nutrition, and more. Planning for a Seed Swap Sunday morning. Hope to see you there.

Buy tickets today at http://heritagefoodfest.org. Thank you for doing that this month if you are able and want to support this continued project. Buying sooner helps us plan food; as usual, fest tickets include camping and two meals per day Friday-Sunday.