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Fermentation Master Class - 5 December West Cork

Wild Fermentation Master Class

5th December 2016

If you really want to know what life is all about, you've got to learn how to ferment your food! We all require living, real and clean food now more than ever. On offer is a little more in-depth class for the more serious foodie....if you are ready to take your life (inside & out) to the next level, this class is for you.

We will begin with a fermented food lunch....then cover all the basic fermentation techniques including sourdough bread, kombucha, apple cider vinegar & sauerkraut while going into detail on nutrition, probiotics, recipes, equipment, health and nature. We might even get some time to discuss wild fermented wine & beer....either way, it will be a wild time!

Time: 1pm to 4:45 ish

When: 5 December (Monday)

Where: near Drimoleague West Cork

Cost: €85.00

To book your place text 0872361616, email info@aprildanann.com or stop by my market stall in Clonakilty, Skibbereen or Herbert Park in Dublin.

  

Healing with Herbs - 30th October 2016 at 2pm

Healing with Herbs

30^th October 2016 at 2pm starting in the herb garden!!

We need to know about herbs

Learn to make a herbal tonic, the benefits of fresh herb tea & how easy they are to use every day

You can find more ways to use these gentle living foods in every part of your life and should be drinking them, eating them, cooking them, growing them, rinsing your hair with them, taking them for coughs, colds, aches, tonics and overall balance.

We need to be foraging & finding them in the hedgerows and fields, creating space for them in our gardens and on the windowsills  – Herbs for everything that is right or wrong with us and for everyone in the family including the pets.

If you want to know more (and you should) come out and spend an afternoon with April Danann – let’s talk, taste, wander and wonder our way through some of the best herbs to use in everyday life, for every day stuff.

Will be another fun & exciting afternoon listening, learning, using our intuition and being one with our true nature! We will be making a herbal tonic, fresh herbal tea and discovering more about the deep cellular healing properties of nature's garden....

When: 30^th October 2016

Where: Caheragh, Drimoleague West Cork

Time: 2pm to 5pm

Cost: €59

Includes: Notes, tastes, drinks & organic snacks

Booking essential: info@aprildanann.com ring or text 0872361616

Herbs have changed my life......it's nearly been a couple of decades now of devoting my attention to them, but it never ceases to amaze me how much something like the weeds from the garden can alter, affect, assist & heal. 

Everything

The most wonderful thing I love about using herbs as my food, deep nutrition & gentle medicine is how they work across all parts of me (body, mind, spirit) as if there are no boundaries. How they work quickly, without negative side effects, how they pull me up as they work with me and communicate with the deepest parts of me.

In fact, I've gone from being a person who feared and didn't trust my body, which was shut down and closed up, to one who has watched her life literally unfold in layers of deeper meaning, passion and purpose. 

Our true nature is;   NATURE

Workshops, Market Stall, Nature & Me

 We are approaching the harvest time of year, the special gifts of nature are being presented for those of us willing to wander into streams, trudge through hedgerows, follow the honey bee trail and listen to the hum of magic on the wind.

The only thing asked of us is to be ourselves.

This has become my motto over the years, if I can only get back to myself, I will find who I have always been, waiting for me there. 

Nature knows the way, shares her secrets and guides those who are pure of heart. 

❤️

If you can, come out for one of my workshops, classes or talks over the next little while. Or get one of my books, these books are very special and important. Stop by my market stall for a browse and a chat, ask me a question. I will try to answer from my heart and the wisdom nature has been teaching me. 

We are often walking this journey by ourselves, but we are not alone.

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Taste of West Cork week - special offerings at my Wild Food Lab in Caheragh, Drimoleague West Cork.

Fermentation Workshop with Food Scientist April Danann

Fermentation Workshop 12 September, 6:30 pm to 9:45 or so, we will cover all main areas of fermentation, plus the nature of nutrition, food creation and alchemy. You will taste, stir, discuss, write and together take your food experience to the next level. This is an important food group for us all, please make time to learn all you can about starting your own ferments. Your body will flourish and your health will recover. €65 includes extensive notes, tastings, snacks, drinks & sourdough Mother starter to take home. email info@aprildanann.com or ring/text 0872361616

  

http://www.atasteofwestcork.com/programme/2016/9/12/wild-fermentation-workshop

Sourdough Bread - Malted Grain

Nettle Beer

Natural Bee Keeping Workshop & Slide Show

Natural Bee Keeping 13 September 5pm to 7pm, in our Wild Food Lab with Trevor Danann, April & Max Danann - lots to talk about, on this evening event, we have our slides, our bees, some honey and our medicinal herb garden as the setting. As custodians of the bees, it is our duty to learn all we can in order to ensure we have thriving natural colonies of bees. Everywhere. We will look at costs, equipment, habitat, natural treatments, housing, specific issues and much more! Great slide show, view some of our hives.....honey tasting and a special discussion on April's Medicinal Herb studies....€25 - bargain price, no excuses, caring for the bees benefits us all. Email info@aprildanann.com or ring/text 0872361616

http://www.atasteofwestcork.com/programme/2016/8/13/beekeeping-the-natural-way 

Fermentation Workshop 4th July in Rosscarbery West Cork

My next workshop in West Cork 4th July! A full on evening of fermenting fun for wild foodies......we will cover the entire range of fermented foods to get you started on your journey to great gut health! Contact www.flavour.ie to book your space.....Looking forward to seeing you there  

text or ring Kate on 0862059360

Fermentation Workshop 25th & 26th January 2016 in The Happy Pear & Skibbereen

Upcoming Workshops and Courses

Wild Fermentation – Living Water 25th at The Happy Pear & 
26th in Skibbereen West Cork

Fermentation of food & drink is an ancient art and a necessary skill to maintain a healthy, balanced gut – turning ordinary vegetables, fruit and water into a healthy, tasty & probiotic food is the ultimate quest for the Food Alchemist.

Join April Danann, Food Scientist, Clinical Naturopathic Nutritionist and an expert in Living Water wild fermentation techniques, for an evening in nature reconnecting to the finer points of nourishing your soul.

During this evening practical workshop you will be introduced to several methods of fermenting foods, various means of increasing nutritional content and bioavailability of nutrients as well as how to create exquisite tasting high vibration tonics.

Included in the evening are complete notes, your own sourdough starter to take home, loads of tastings and samples of food that is Alive!

Come out and join Rebel Foods Market Stall’s own Intuitive Rebel Nutritionist in the stunning setting of Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen West Cork for Wild Fermentation – Living Water!

25th at The Happy Pear (contact The Happy Pear to register)
26^th January 2016 evening class at 6:30pm 

€65 for workshop, includes your very own sourdough starter Mother culture with complete notes

on sale on the night - April’s Triple Goddess Mother Cultures, fermenting jar, books, recipes & notes

Contact April Danann on mobile 087 236 1616 or email: info@aprildanann.com to book your place, 50% deposit required to hold a seat...booking essential, spaces limited to the kitchen in the Lake Lodge.

November Fermentation Workshop - West Cork

Wild Fermentation Workshop 

 Living Water – Food Alchemy

16th November 2015 at Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen

Fermentation of food & drink is an ancient art and a necessary skill to maintain a healthy, balanced gut – turning ordinary vegetables, fruit and water into a healthy, tasty & probiotic gut friendly food is the ultimate quest for the Food Alchemist. 

Join April Danann, Food Scientist, Clinical Naturopathic Nutritionist and an expert in Living Water wild fermentation techniques, for an evening in nature reconnecting to the finer points of nourishing your soul.

During this evening practical workshop you will be introduced to several methods of fermenting foods, various means of increasing nutritional content and bioavailability of nutrients as well as how to create exquisite tasting high vibration tonics. 

Included in the evening are complete notes, your own sourdough starter to take home, loads of tastings and samples of food that is Alive!

Come out and join Rebel Foods Market Stall’s own Intuitive Rebel Nutritionist in the stunning setting of Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen West Cork for Wild Fermentation – Living Water!

16th November evening class at 6:30pm  

€65 for workshop, includes your very own sourdough starter Mother culture with complete notes

On sale on the night - April’s Triple Goddess Mother Cultures, fermenting jar, books, recipes & notes 

Contact April Danann on mobile 087 236 1616 or email: info@aprildanann.com to book your place, 50% deposit required to hold a seat...booking essential, spaces limited to the kitchen in the Lake Lodge.

 Artisan hand crafted Apple Cider Vinegars

Motivation for the Day Ahead

I've been hearing a lot about motivation these past few weeks....and indeed this summer in West Cork has been tough! It's rained nearly non-stop, been a few degrees colder than usual and we've all been feeling vitamin D deficient - a bit more than we normally are (LOL!).

Each morning I wake up and wonder about the day ahead.....what I've realised lately is that I am looking for the 'motivation' to get up, get moving and get going. Of course, having a plan helps, so does having a routine, a schedule as well as something to look forward to each day (a little sunshine doesn't hurt either).

For me it has been absolutely essential to have these things in place, or else I seem to lose myself in the doing rather than being. I like discipline and the energy shifts that occur when we allow an unfolding as well as structure to interact with each other.

So....what exactly is motivation and why do we need it? Well, when I look it up, it means a reason or a motive for acting. However, when I look a bit deeper, the words emotion and motivation actually derive from the same place - a Latin word meaning 'to move'. 

This is quite interesting for me this summer in particular - just when I find little to motivate me on the outside (a shortage of sunny days and unable to be in the garden as much as I'd like), I must find my motivation from something inherent inside of me. And perhaps that is emotion - or as I like to call it.....

Passion.

Discovering many of the things we are passionate about, allowing them to develop and grow deep roots in our lives, will provide some of the motivation (emotion) necessary to get us out of bed in them morning and hopefully a whole lot more.

My lesson for this week.....don't push those emotions down - work with them, understand them and allow an open heart to lead us forward into the deeper corridors of feeling. That's where passion resides - and we can't get there without 'feeling'. 

Those feelings will then motivate us to align with our true natures. Onwards! 

West Cork Health & Wellness Open Day - Bandon on 6th April

The next Open Day in Bandon is coming up soon! Plan to be there....I'll be giving a little talk on Medical Intuition @ 3pm on the day 

April Danann - Rebel Foods Market Stall will be in Bandon for the next Health & Wellness Open Day!
Come out to meet some world class therapists and sit in on a talk....It's all free! 

Rebel Foods in Bantry Tomorrow!!

April Danann - Rebel Foods Market Stall

will be in West Lodge Hotel in Bantry on Sunday 2nd March from 

12 noon to 5pm..... Free Event!

Come out to meet some wonderful people in arts, healing, therapies and nutrition from all over West Cork as part of the Health & Wellness Open Days

Tastes, free talks, give-aways and information to be had at this free event!  

Updates and News

I will be at the West Lodge Hotel in Bantry on Sunday 2^nd March for the next West Cork Health & Wellness Open Day. We are really looking forward to this event as an opportunity to get to know some  of the many others out there working in our communities and to touch base with all of you in a posher setting (other then in wellies and 5 jumpers in the farmers market! LOL) 

The day is a free event – come on out for a chat and some nibbles from the Rebel Foods Market Stall table….I will have all of my creams, remedies, healing balms, salves and herbs! 

It’s on from 12noon to 5pm on Sunday 2nd March 2014. 

On Sunday 30^th March 2014 – we will be hosting our first Top Bar Bee Keeping Day of the season. It will be here in Leap in April’s Clinic – this is a hands on informative day on all things bee, alternative (chemical free) and top bar.

Featuring our own Danann design Top Bar hives, slide show, lecture and workshop style session to get you up to speed on keeping bees, bee health and bee-ing a part of the natural environment.

We all need to do our part – so why not start with your garden, look after the bees and they will take care of you!

Rebel Foods Market Stall

Up Coming Events, Happenings and News!

It’s Time for A Change……

If you are also ready for something better, something deeper and more then you feel your life is bringing you right now – perhaps it’s time to unblock 2014 for yourself! Plan to come out to one of my Winter classes to get your life back on track and discover a deeper spiritual connection.

February Rebel Foods Cookery Class Sunday 2nd February 2014 – fruit and vegetable fermentation & sourdough breads for winter €35 11am to 3pm or finish, Leap, West Cork

Energy Class – session 2 (anyone can join at any time) Working Through the Energy Blocks €10 each evening Tuesdays at 7pm Leap, West Cork starts 14th January 2014 runs for 6 or 7 weeks. We are now on week two and already making great progress! Come out to join us if you want to make a positive change in your life and physical health.

April Danann will be at the West Lodge Hotel in Bantry for the West Cork Health & Wellness Day 2nd March 2014 from 12 to 5pm and at the Munster Arms Hotel in Bandon on 6th April – free event! 

30 March 2014 – Top Bar Bee Keeping – beginners class, alternative bee keeping, bee health, backyard basics, slide show and workshop style hands on day – check for details

To reserve your place please book directly with April on 087 2361616 or email info@aprildanann.com website – www.aprildanann.com  

Our goats in the field