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Wild Spring Edibles Cooking Class
May 15 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$35Have you ever wanted to learn more about how to eat foods from the natural world? Do you feel the woods and fields calling to you?
Join local chef, holistic health coach, and author Jessica Jean Weston for an evening of cooking with wild spring edibles.
We will chat about ethical & sustainable harvesting practices, strategies for avoiding environmental pollutants, and the correct identification of some common and nutritious wild plants.
We will also cover some of the basic medicinal attributes of these plants and the ways that they can be incorporated into home medicine chests.
We will prepare and TASTE lilac lemonade, wild green superfood gomasio (a delicious seasoning made with toasted sesame seeds and salt), and raw vegan wild green pesto (hoping for ramps depending on how this season goes, but may be a blend with nettles, dandelion, plantain, etc.).
Everything made in this class will be 100% organic, vegan, gluten-free, soy-free, peanut-free. The pesto does contain raw cashews, but can be made with sunflower seeds if there’s an allergy. The Superfresh! kitchen is not 100% nut-free.
Everyone leaves with a jar of wild green vegan pesto!
COST: $35 – Pre-registration required – space is limited.
To register, please visit: https://www.jessicajeanweston.com/events/2024/5/15/wild-spring-edibles-cooking-class/
MEET YOUR HOST:
Jessica Jean Weston is chef owner & founder of Superfresh! Organic Café, a 100% organic, vegan, gluten-free, allergen friendly restaurant based in Brattleboro, VT. Her debut cookbook Healing Tonics, Juices, and Smoothies: 100+ Elixirs to Nurture Body and Soul has sold over 20,000 copies internationally. She received her certification in holistic health coaching from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN) and was named one of the INN’s 30 Under 30 Health and Wellness Leaders in 2017.
Jessica has been featured in Forbes, AAA, and SOVT Arts & Living magazines. Her Superfresh! Organic Café has been awarded best vegan restaurant in Brattleboro, best vegan restaurant in Vermont in Yankee Magazine, and more.
Jessica speaks and teaches all over New England and beyond at vegan food festivals, food coops and wellness centers, leading retreats, and on her popular Youtube channel.
With a BA in Medical Anthropology from Ithaca College, Jessica has spent her career exploring the broad subject of food as medicine with Mayan healers in Belize, on organic farms, and with herbalists, shamanic practitioners, and more from the Finger Lakes to Vermont to Mexico to Italy.
Jessica’s passion for living a vibrant life through wellness and the plant world has led her to create, serve, and teach delicious plant-based cuisine, tend her permaculture inspired edible medicine home garden, forage for wild foods in her daily life and travels, as well as utilize and share the potent power of essential oils for emotional, physical, and spiritual support as a doTERRA Wellness Advocate.
Jessica’s personal journey to health navigating a series of food intolerances, as well as what made her feel most vibrant, led her to a non-GMO plant-based diet free of soy, gluten, dairy, eggs, and meat. Recognizing that everyone has their own path to explore with different physical, emotional and environmental needs, her goal is to simply share her experiences and knowledge through creating delicious, approachable cuisine, with understanding that no one being is alike (even the same on a different day with different circumstances).
Stay connected:
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