Kitchen Garden Workshop – Let Food be thy Medicine

Hippocrates, the founder of Western Medicine, was famous for saying, ‘Let food be thy
medicine and medicine be thy food’. In a world of fast food, processed food and obesity as an
epidemic, food as medicine is now more important than ever. But is eating ‘vegetables’
enough? How can we make sure that we are getting the most nutrition possible out of our
plants?

Join Jean Smith, social anthropologist and keen vegetable grower, for Let Food be thy Medicine.

On the course you will learn:

• Which vegetables provide the most antioxidants. You might already know that
  reddish hued lettuce is more nutritious than lighter coloured lettuce (The magenta
  leaved Ross di Chioggia has 10x more nutrients than green varieties of radicchio) but
  did you know that the leaf formation of a head of lettuce also affects its nutritional
  content? Or that two small onions have more nutrients than one large one?
• How to make a health tonic, brimming with antioxidants.
• How to utilise every aspect of a vegetable; the parts of the vegetables we normally
  discard usually provide the most nutrients. Jean will demonstrate a few recipes for
  you, using these underused parts. Yes, nettles can both sting you and be delicious.
• How to identify common weeds in your garden and see them as free, zero-effort,
  health-busting greens.

This course consists of many different facets, but they all have one thing in common: super-
charged nutrition for you!

Tea, coffee, snacks and a hearty lunch of soup, bread and kitchen garden salad will also be
provided.

Places are limited to 10, in order to maintain a quality experience for those attending the
workshop.

Please dress appropriately for the weather on the day with sturdy shoes or boots that don’t
mind getting muddy and be prepared to get your hands dirty.

Please do consider using public transport or bicycle to get here and if you’re coming by car,
please park in the tree-lined avenue nearby. More travel information here.

Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden is now working under the umbrella of the non-profit Asthall
Wild Community Interest Company (Asthall Wild CIC) with the aim of helping to create a
healthier, happier food system for all. We grow wildlife-friendly and people-friendly food
using Organic methods and Permaculture principles. We grow for a small, local box scheme,
for the occasional Potting Shed Café, for chefs and for the Manor kitchen. We do this while
providing a mixture of wild habitats such as ponds, log piles, flowering weeds, seed heads
and uncut margins for beneficial creatures to feed, hunt, sleep, bask, breed and hibernate in.

The funds raised from this workshop will go towards delivering the aims of Asthall Wild
CIC. For more information, see here.

The course will be delivered by Jean Smith, social anthropologist, landrace gardener,
seed saver and keen vegetable grower.

Photo: Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden © Tim Mitchell

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