Feast on the Fire
A fall harvest gathering
October 3rd - 7th, 2024
This intimate gathering is designed to bring the harvest time magic of the village to life. Join us for a long weekend full of food-focused ancestral skills classes with a focus of food harvesting and preparation, and enjoy communal cooking experiences on our central fire.
Let’s feast!
Wild meat cooks on the coals, acorns are being pounded, and someone arrives with a big bag of mushrooms. Friends laugh and tell stories around a bright fire as food is served. Some people brought produce from their personal gardens, while others are sharing their deer, elk, or other wild food harvest from the season. It’s an ancient feeling: sharing food, skills, music, secret recipes and community around the fire.
Registration fees include: Three days of classes and workshops, four nights of camping at The Sharpening Stone, live acoustic music, three organic dinners and co-creative cooking experiences, coffee and tea, firewood, parking, and access to surrounding land for hiking and recreation. As with other gatherings like this, class schedules will not be available until the event starts.
What to Expect: Arrive Thursday evening, with time to get your camp set up and get settled. Opening circle will take place Friday morning, followed by our first day of classes and workshop. Each evening, we’ll have a guided dinner preparation on the fire as an experiential workshop. Music and merriment will follow into the evening! Personal acoustic instruments are welcome, and bring your singing voices! We will provide dinners on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings, and the opportunity for everyone to get involved with the cooking. Participants are responsible for their own breakfasts and lunches. Bring harvests from your gardens to share! Together we will create a communal food supply of corn, potatoes, squash and other seasonal ingredients that will be available for everyone to enjoy
Instructors will offer earth skills classes Friday-Sunday morning, with afternoons focused on primitive cooking and feasting together as a community. Classes at this event will be focused around seasonal earth-based skills and food harvesting/preparation. Examples include acorn processing and preparation, animal processing/butchery, and corn nixtamalization. A complete list of workshops will not be available before the event. This event will be a more intimate setting than our Earth Skills Gathering, with around 80 people. Closing circle will be Sunday evening before dinner, and participants are welcome to spend Sunday night on the land and depart Monday morning. Please plan to leave no later than 12 pm on Monday.
Families are welcome! We will offer youth programming on Saturday and Sunday mornings and all ages are welcome to participate in primitive cooking experiences. Children under 8 years old are free!
PLEASE NOTE: Dogs are NOT allowed at Feast on the Fire due to the food-focused nature of this event. Thank you for understanding. We do allow a limited number of dogs at our Earth Skills Gathering so if you need to bring a dog, consider joining us in the spring.