Cider Making and Fermented Beverages

Tantallon Public Library 3646 Hammonds Plains Rd., Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Canada

Learn about pressing apples for cider using a smaller cider press, and which varieties of apples are best for different flavours and tartness.  You can also learn how to ferment fresh cider into 'hard cider,' as well as other types of fermented fruit beverages  This is a fun workshop packed with useful information. The workshop […]

Harvesting and Preparing Wild Staple Foods

Tantallon Public Library 3646 Hammonds Plains Road, Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Canada

For millennia humans have sought out wild staples: those foods that contain essential calories and protein. Fortunately these foods are all around us in Turtle Island. Learn about how to prepare acorns to make bread as well as starchy tubers: Apios americana (ground nut), Sunchokes and Cattail corms. Join us for this interesting and highly […]