Daily Archives: March 4, 2017

Saturday, March 18, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – 42nd Annual Gardeners’ Gathering

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The Trustees and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh present the 42nd Annual Gardeners’ Gathering on Saturday, March 18 from 11 – 4 at Northeaster University’s Shillman Hall.  Free and open to all, The Gardeners’ Gathering brings together over 400 gardeners to kick off Boston’s gardening season. The Gardeners’ Gathering is the city’s largest educational forum for urban gardeners, and an opportunity for people to share ideas, network, and learn.

**Special guest speaker LaDonna Redmond, food justice activist**

**Over 2 dozen skill building and community organizing workshops**

**Boston environmental, agricultural, and community exhibitors**

The Gardeners’ Gathering offers more than two-dozen skill-building workshops for both vegetable and ornamental gardeners, with an emphasis on healthy practices for urban gardens. Topics range from seed starting, composting, fermentation, and urban beekeeping to community and youth organizing. Attendees will also be able to interact with exhibitors from Boston-area agriculture, gardening, and environmental organizations.

Special guest speaker LaDonna Redmond will address “Food and Justice–feeding ourselves in uncertain times” during the noon plenary and will participate in a roundtable discussion during the workshop sessions about food justice as a movement toward liberation, and ending oppression in our food system and beyond.

For more information visit http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-29688.html

Monday, March 13, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Fermentation 101

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Jamaica Plain’s fabulous restaurant, Aurum Restaurant, 377 Centre Street, and Boston Ferments are teaming up for a night of fermentation. The workshop will include a fermented dinner & paired fermented drinks, a short lecture on the history & culture of fermentation, and a hands-on fermentation demo.

The evening kicks off with a fermentation-inspired vegetarian kimchi Lebanese pie (which can be vegan – please just let us know) plus a selection of sides. We are pairing this meal with unique fermented cocktails (served in handcrafted cups  which you will take home) by workshop leader Jeremy Ogusky.

Next, we will have a short discussion on the biological, political, and symbolic ‘culture’ of fermented foods around the world with Jeremy, a local fermenting enthusiast and JP studio potter. We will then learn to make one of the simplest lacto-fermented treats – sauerkraut. We will break into groups, chop veggies and everyone will go home with a jar full of fermenting cabbage.

All participants will finish the workshop with a healthy belly full of fermented foods as well as the knowledge & confidence to begin fermenting in their kitchen, and a jar full of fermenting kraut. This starter class will cover everything you need to start fermenting on your own: philosophy, preparation and problem-solving.

If you want to learn to ferment AND go home with a handcrafted fermentation crock to create your own sauerkraut, kimchi & pickles in, this is your chance. Our instructor, Jeremy, is a studio potter and creator of the crocks and he will bring a selection of colors to the workshop that you can choose from. Then you can prepare your own sauerkraut in the workshop in your own handmade crock.

$49 for dinner/ drink pairing & workshop; $100 for dinner/drink pairing, workshop & handcrafted fermentation crock.  Register online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fermentation-101-workshop-fermented-dinner-drinks-pairing-hosted-by-aurum-restaurant-tickets-31075746394?aff=es2