All Things Fermentation, and Gut Health
Seminars and Workshops are offered at various locations in the Greater Prescott/Quad Cities area (see events page). In addition, I can come to you at your business, club, school, church or in-home sessions can be done by arrangement. Coming soon, will be on-line versions of these offerings.
Explore the alimentary system (aka, your gut) by learning about what occurs along the pathway your food takes as you eat and digest, learn about your microbiome and how probiotics help to keep your gut, and your health, at it’s best. Find out how fermented foods help edify your gut health and well-being.
Food preservation and how it can contribute to health and wellbeing: Learn about the basics of the fermentation process, how microbes perform transformations to preserve produce, and release nutrients that are beneficial to your health, and how to make and incorporate fermented foods into a healthy diet.
This foundational workshop is a series of three 2-hour sessions. In the first hour an in-depth presentation of the day’s topic on gut health and/or fermentation, including aspect of physiology, metabolism, historical perspectives, causes of ailments of the gut and how to prevent them, the contribution of fermented foods and how they benefit our health and how diet impacts our microbiome. During the second hour there will be a hands-on demonstration of the preparation of fermented foods/beverages, you may participate if desired and starters for some ferments will be provided.
Session 1: Probiotics, and how to make Kombucha
Session 2: Your Microbiome, and how to make Kimchi or Sauerkraut
Session 3: Fermentation, and how to make Sourdough bread.
Rates: $150 per person for the three sessions, materials (notebooks, information, recipes) and some starters will be provided. (Rates may vary slightly by location).
There In Wine Is Found The Great Generalization: All Life Is Fermentation.”
Feeding fermentation starters for sourdough bread, kefir or kombucha will become a rhythm in your life, consider that they are living cells, needing your care! Psychobiotics are probiotic strains, such as bifidobacterium that can module your behaviors!
Maintaining a healthy balance of microbes in your gut will contribute to having a more robust immune system, better digestion, better moods and generally better overall health !
Inside of you lives a powerhouse of allies, trillions of little cells known as your microbiota, the more you know how to care for them, the better they can be at helping you unleash robust health.