Honey Fermentation Workshop with Rachel de Thample / July 20

£65.00
sold out

Sunday 20th July
Time: 11.00 - 2.00

Just one teaspoonful of honey – a mere 5g measure – is the lifetime’s work of a dozen bees. Considering their daily forage during a short lifespan – each bee tapping nectar from hundred flowers across a vast and varied landscape and heaving it back to the hive to create those drops of gold – it’s possible we take honey for granted. The magic trick is to apply honey is a way that makes it matter more.

In this workshop Rachel de Thample celebrates this revered ingredient with an array of fermented delicacies. Using honey to trigger the fermentation process not only stretches it further and retains, if not enhances, it nutritive properties.

As well as honey, Rachel will also throw a fun and fruit ferment into the mix using another magical bee ingredient: bee’s wax. If you’ve never had strawberries or butter fermented in bees wax, you’re in a for a treat.

You’ll also learn lots of fascinating facts about bees. Did you know that they forage herbs and medicinal mushrooms to help protect themselves from disease? Rachel’s new book is the River Cottage Bees & Honey handbook and her previous book River Cottage Fermentation make her the prefect candidate to marry one of the most desired ingredients with one of the most popular and nutritious ways to preserve food.

Sunday 20th July
Time: 11.00 - 2.00

Just one teaspoonful of honey – a mere 5g measure – is the lifetime’s work of a dozen bees. Considering their daily forage during a short lifespan – each bee tapping nectar from hundred flowers across a vast and varied landscape and heaving it back to the hive to create those drops of gold – it’s possible we take honey for granted. The magic trick is to apply honey is a way that makes it matter more.

In this workshop Rachel de Thample celebrates this revered ingredient with an array of fermented delicacies. Using honey to trigger the fermentation process not only stretches it further and retains, if not enhances, it nutritive properties.

As well as honey, Rachel will also throw a fun and fruit ferment into the mix using another magical bee ingredient: bee’s wax. If you’ve never had strawberries or butter fermented in bees wax, you’re in a for a treat.

You’ll also learn lots of fascinating facts about bees. Did you know that they forage herbs and medicinal mushrooms to help protect themselves from disease? Rachel’s new book is the River Cottage Bees & Honey handbook and her previous book River Cottage Fermentation make her the prefect candidate to marry one of the most desired ingredients with one of the most popular and nutritious ways to preserve food.

  • A one off very special 3 workshop celebrating this revered ingredient with an array of fermented delicacies.

  • 3 hours

  • Come along to this wildly unique workshop where you’ll learn how to make:

    • A fermented jam featuring local honey and summer fruit

    • Honey fermented ketchup, barbecue sauce and chilli sauce – summer sauces sorted!

    • Homemade honey vinegar

    • A sparkling mead with wild yeasts

    • Bee’s wax ferments – including summer berries and butter

    • The workshop will also include a light lunch and you’ll get written guidance after the workshop with notes, measurements and recipe inspiration

    • • All equipment (aprons, jars) provided

  • Please note the following cancellation, refund and transfer fees apply.

    • 2 weeks notice: We can offer a full refund.
    • Up to 1 week’s notice: We can offer a transfer of date to a different workshop with a £5 admin fee.
    • 3 days or less before: Regrettably no refund or transfer of dates is possible.