Hyper-Local Brewing: Easy & delicious herbal beers from the yard!
Learn how to brew using any herbal or medicinal plant. Bring herbs or forage with the class, learning to identify edible and medicinal plants in the landscape. If you can make tea out of a plant, you can make a beer with it in this workshop. At one time, beer was one way that people took their herbs, before laws limited beer base ingredients to the few we’re familiar with today. No fancy brewery science or complicated chemistry necessary. We’ll rely on the surroundings and a few simple ingredients and supplies, all provided as part of the course fee.
Meet Your Instructor:
Leslie Rogers
Leslie is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Detroit and teaching Fiber, Sculpture, and Performance in Boston at the SMFA at Tufts University, with a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and MFA in Sculpture & Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work draws from quilt history, timeless forms of entertainment from streets and small stages, folklore, storytelling, and puppetry. Leslie works to blur and erase hierarchies between performers and objects, and in parallel, between art forms and social groups. Her work, whether quilting or theatrical history lessons about home brews made from naturalized weeds she recently pulled out of the ground next to your table, functions as a tool to reorient dialogue around technologies and how they can be deployed – for good and ill. Leslie works solo, in collaborative duos, or develop platforms for large groups to form around a creative endeavor. She also collaborates with non-human partners like plants, dirt, and fermenting slurries.
Class Details:
Location: Green Door Folk School – 2312 E Kasson Rd, Cedar, MI
Date/Time: July 19th @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Prerequisites/Skill Level/Age Requirements:
- No prior experience required.
- Ages 18+
Booking Information:
What happens after I book the class? After you book, we will send you a confirmation email that you are IN! A week out from the class, we will send you an email with more details about our meeting locations and some housekeeping items.
Where can I stay if I’m coming from out of town? If you’re traveling for a class, we highly recommend a stay at Cedar North, a cozy farm-stay just steps from the Green Door Schoolhouse. Nestled on a permaculture farm in Leelanau County, Cedar North offers peaceful garden views, the charm of a working goat farm, and room to roam and reflect. NOTE: Indicate you are a Green Door student at checkout for a discounted rate.
Policies:
Go for it! If you’ve been curious about food fermentation, love a local brew, or want to turn your backyard into your pantry, this is the class for you!