Flourish to Nourish

Flourish to Nourish is an enriching retreat taking you beyond the garden’s gate and focuses on the health benefits of a plant based food and the importance of a nutritionally balanced diet.

This informative experience will immerse you in the principles of how to eat well.

It will provide you with the knowledge to transform your health and cooking repertoire through the bounty of fresh, homegrown seasonal goodness.. You will develop a better understanding of the nutritional components of food and how they are utilised in the body and how you can grow your own produce and transform your harvest into wholesome, delicious meals that will benefit your health.

The potager at Les Ombrieres will become your classroom and the abundance of fresh, seasonal produce grown there will be your inspiration to take with you into the kitchen. There you will discover how to make nutritional dishes, learn fermentation skills, and how to make nutritious alternative's to every day foods.

This experience will empower you to make informed changes to your diet and start thinking about how you can grow your own seasonal produce and have a greater connection with your health, your food sources and what you serve on your plate.

Retreat Insight:

• The truth about food and its journey to your plate

• The sugar principle

• Principles and Benefits of the organic kitchen garden

• Nutritional content and health benefits of  home grown fruit and vegetables.

• Planting to promote health

• Eating to improve your health

• Transforming your harvest into seasonal nutritious everyday dishes.

• Fermentation cookery & gut health – kombucha, kefir, pickling 

• Botanical cookery - creating delicious, healthy cordials, cakes and ice creams from the garden

• Herbs - the gardens medicine chest