Workshops at Bluebunch Farm
knowledge sharing is a big part of our community culture, we would love to host you for one of our classes
Croissant & Laminated Pastry
Learn how to laminate croissants with just a rolling pin and bench. We will talk the importance of butter temperature, make a variety of fillings, enjoy some freshly baked fare right from the oven and teach you how to make these at home for your friends and family without having to get up at the crack of dawn in the morning.
Sourdough Bread Workshop
One more date to go down the sourdough rabbit hole. We talk water temperature, bread bakers formula (so you can create your own recipes), mixing technology , overnight fermentation strategies and baking with freshly milled grains.
Croissant & Laminated Pastry
Learn how to laminate croissants using simple a rolling pin and a bench. Enjoy some fresh pastry right out of the oven and make some delicious and creative fillings to go with your pastries.
Wild Fermentation
Have you always felt intimidated by fermenting your own food? Let us take you through the steps of Kimchi, Kraut & Ginger beer. Bring your Jars fill them and enjoy the freshly fermented joy of taking care of your own gut health.
Locavore Cookery Club
Two more Wednesdays of getting together to share tips and tricks of cooking with the veggies of the season - the Root Cellar Vegetables. Join us if you want to switch up your usual dinner menu and add a little spark of local fare.
Locavore Cookery Club
Three more weeks of the Locavore Cookery Club. We are digging through the winter root cellar and black boxing delicious meals. No recipes, just basic ingredients and methods. Join us on Wednesday evenings, a guaranteed good time.
Lokavore Cookery Club
Cooking with local ingredients is better for the environment, better for the community and most of all so delicious, even in the winter months. Learn tricks on how to get the most flavour out of your Winter Pantry, join us for four Wednesdays or just one, to cook a nutritious seasonally inspired meal.
Lokavore Cookery Club (4 sessions)
Get a deal of one free class if you book all four Wednesday evening sessions learning to cook locally and getting the best out of your Winter Pantry.
Sourdough Workshop
Join us for an in depth workshop on sourdough fermentation. How to start and upkeep a culture and mix, shape & bake fresh crusty loaves in this class.
Blue Bunch Farm Retreat
Join us for a weekend of diving into the rabbit hole of “optimal functioning”. In this retreat we will set aside time to cook together, regulate our nervous system via somatic meditation, have group discussions on the challenges of modern life as well as enjoy the company of guest speakers joining us to share insights on how to navigate this modern world to stay mentally, physically and spiritually grounded. Ticket includes workshops and meals from Friday evening until mid day Sunday. Please book your own accommodation or bring your camping gear and set up on the Farm.
Somatic Meditation
Session two of our Somatic Meditation adventures. Mind cannot control mind, but the body has access to flip the switch to a Calm space via our motor pathways. Join me for six weeks of mapping the body, exploring habitual patterns and creating novel experiences. Join us in person here on the farm or via zoom from the comfort of your own home.
Somatic Meditation Zoom Version
Session two of our Somatic Meditation adventures. Mind cannot control mind, but the body has access to flip the switch to a Calm space via our motor pathways. Join me for six weeks of mapping the body, exploring habitual patterns and creating novel experiences. Join us in person here on the farm or via zoom from the comfort of your own home.
Modern Homesteading
Did you always want to more sustainably feed yourself and your family? Tips and tricks on how to live more in harmony with our natural way of being, understanding the beauty of simple ingredients and how to use them. Insights into functioning more optimally in our current environment and how to cultivate happiness growing a garden, processing food and cooking for each other.
Mothers Day Picnic
Join us on Mothers Day here on the Farm for an outdoor picnic extravaganza. Bring your sun hat, blankets, pillows or chairs and enjoy delicious Farm Bruschetta, a Pastry and Beverage. Relax and unwind in the company of friends, horses and community.
Farm Work Party
Feel like you’d like to get out of the city to soak in some fresh air, listen to the birds and hang out with a herd of horses while getting your heart pumping with a bit of physical labour? Join us for one of our work parties. Come for and hour or all four, we trade you for dinner the same evening. This is a FREE event, please register so we know how many to cook for!
Sourdough Workshop
Learn about the rabbit hole of how to make sourdough bread consistently by mixing, shaping and baking bread using a wild yeast starter in this class.
Croissant & Puff Pastry Workshop
Learn how to turn butter, flour, water and yeast into a flaky amazing pastry. We will be laminating croissants using simply a rolling pin.
Croissant Workshop
Learn how to laminate croissant and puff pastry dough by hand using a rolling pin and a bench.
Sourdough Workshop (zoom version)
Learn how to take care and make bread using a sourdough culture. We will mix, shape and show you how to bake your loaf at home in this class.
Lokavore Cookery
Getting the most out of your Root Cellar Vegetables! In this workshop we cook three courses with primarily locally sourced ingredients and enjoying these as a meal at the end of the class.
Wild Fermentation
Celebrate the Cabbage Head with us here on the Farm collaborating with Steve from Ikigai Farms. In this workshop we will be talking and making kraut, kimchi and ginger beer! Gut health is so important in our daily function. To take away the intimidation of fermenting your own food, whilst enjoying delicious farm snacks and good company.
Blue Bunch Farm Christmas Party
This free potluck style gathering (bring something that goes with bread;) is an open house to anyone who has not been to the farm and would like to join us for some Christmas Cheer. Bring your kids, grandma and your own wine. There will be sweets, sugar cookie to decorate and plenty of good dialogue to be had. Please register here
Somatic Mediation
Mind cannot controll mind. The body however knows how flip the switch from one nervous system state to another, using your senses. If you’d like to join us for the remaining six weeks of somatic meditation, we will be hosting this workshop for free (or by donation) at 7pm Mondays via zoom.
Somatic Mediation
Mind cannot control mind, finding a calm space within is not accessible via thought. The body however knows how to flip the switch from one nervous system state to another, using your senses. If you’d like to join us for 8 weeks of somatic meditation, we will be hosting on Mondays starting October 28th at 7pm, via zoom or in person on the farm. This workshop is free or by donation.
Somatic meditation
The mind can not control mind. We can not think our way into a calm space, however we can sense our way to it. The reason for this is we have direct access to our nervous system via our motor pathways aka sensing into our body. This brings us to the present moment and flips the switch to your parasympathetic nervous system. Join us for 8 weeks of somatic meditation, this workshop is free or by donation, you can come and join us on the farm in person or join in via zoom.
Work Party
Better Together! The end of season can use a many hands to finish up the last of harvest, pack away irrigation supplies and get the farm ready for winter. If you’d like to enjoy a couple hours of fresh air and physical movement and join us for dinner in exchange for your efforts join us next Thursday. This is a FREE Event - please register so we know how many to cook for!
Wild Fermentation
Get the ins and outs on how to take care of your gut microbiome health by making your own fermented kraut, kimchi and ginger beer.
Sourdough Level 1
Learn how to make artisan bread using a wild yeast sourdough culture. We will mix, shape and bake bread together in this class.
Sound & Movement
Learn the basic workings of somatic movement meditation, how to flip the switch to your parasympathetic nervous system and find a Calm space within. This guided meditation is followed by a crystal bowl sound bath and farm to table meal. We look forward to have you join us for a relaxing and nurturing evening.
Sound & Movement
Learn tools on how to find a calm space via gentle somatic movement practice. This grounding workshop includes an hour long meditation practice enhanced with crystal singing bowls and a mindful meal to follow.