The art of infusing alcohol with herbs, spices, flowers and fruits has long been valued for both fun and for good health. And aren't they very much the same thing? In this class Anne Shea (award winning maker of wines, beers, liqueurs and more at @smallbatchbooze) will guide you through making infusions from scratch. You'll […]
Garlic you make everything taste good. You are used to flavour krauts, stir fries, sauces, stews. You are rubbed on toast to create bruschetta, crushed into oil to make mayonnaise, stuffed into poultry to flavour chicken, or slow fermented to make black garlic. We love you! Let's harvest garlic together and I will teach you […]
It is summer! Woooo hooooo! And the garden is bountiful once more! Soak yourself in its golden light as we harvest indigenous grasses, wildflowers and fragrant plant clippings to make a summer solstice wreath. You will take home a wreath made by you, using flowers and grasses of your choice grown here at ORTO Farm […]
It is summer! Woooo hooooo! And the garden is bountiful once more! Soak yourself in its golden light as we harvest indigenous grasses, wildflowers and fragrant plant clippings to make a summer solstice wreath. You will take home a wreath made by you, using flowers and grasses of your choice grown here at ORTO Farm […]
It is summer! Woooo hooooo! And the garden is bountiful once more! Soak yourself in its golden light as we harvest indigenous grasses, wildflowers and fragrant plant clippings to make a summer solstice wreath. You will take home a wreath made by you, using flowers and grasses of your choice grown here at ORTO Farm […]
I love foraging, I love growing and I want to make the very most of what I find and what I grow. Preserving for beginners offers all the skills needed to preserve the taste of summer, the cool of winter and the red of autumn. This class is jam packed with information and is focused […]
This is a Demonstration Class This is a demonstration class for up to 30 people with some hands on work for those of you who want to get involved. What you will learn Learn to make beautiful handmade soap at home using readily available kitchen tools. And learn to extract essential oil and hydrosol from […]
This is a demonstration class and we will learn how to make sourdough using tins in a small domestic oven. Free form sourdough loaves have become very popular as they challenge the sourdough bakers a little more and allow bakers to develop a very open crumb. However bread is incredibly delicious either way and tin […]
This is a 100% hands on class where each of you make two loaves of bread: Orto Loaf & Chocolate Savoury Bread. For this class it is Extremely important to arrive at 8am & no later :) Learn to make sourdough, it is easy to do. And you don’t need a perfect schedule to make […]
I love these seasonal events! And I looove chestnuts! Join me & I will take you to harvest chestnuts & I'll show you how to easily prize them from their spiky burrs. We will meet here at ORTO Farm and then a drive to a property laden with chestnut trees. You must wear strong walking […]