By Blake Jackson
Mt. Folly Farm, a sustainable farm in Kentucky, will host its first annual Heritage Food Festival on October 12-15, 2023. The festival will offer a variety of workshops on traditional food preparation techniques, including humane animal processing, foraging, cheesemaking, and breadmaking. There will also be live music, a community feast, and camping.
The festival is open to people of all ages and skill levels. Tickets are available for the full festival, the workshops only, or the live music only.
Workshops
The following workshops will be offered at the Heritage Food Festival:
- Hunter, Gatherer
- Animal Processing
- Effective Outdoor Living
- Using Herbs in Everyday Life
- Kitchen Confidence
- Traditional Diets for Health
- Milling Grains
- Somatic Movement
- Poultry Breakdown & Broth
- Open Pit Roasting
- Soil Health 101
- Cyclical Living & Eating
- Squash 101
- Grandma’s Chicken & Noodles
- Fermentation
- Cheese Making
- Children’s Nature Crafts
- Distilling 101
- Dutch Oven Cooking
- Seeds for the Future
- Food Systems for the Future
- Purpose of the Festival
The Heritage Food Festival is designed to help people learn about and reconnect with traditional food preparation techniques. The organizers of the festival believe that these techniques are essential for a healthy and sustainable food system.
About Mt. Folly Farm
Mt. Folly Farm is a sustainable farm that produces beef, hemp, and whiskey. The farm is committed to using climate-smart farming practices. In 2023, Mt. Folly Enterprises, which owns Mt. Folly Farm, was awarded a USDA Climate-Smart Commodities grant to implement climate-smart farming practices in the Ohio River Valley region.
More information about Mt. Folly Farm’s approach to climate-smart farming is available here.
More information about Mt. Folly Farm’s first annual Heritage Food Festival, including background information about all workshop leaders, is available here.
Photo Credit: Mt. Folly farm
Categories: Kentucky, Business