Acorn Processing

Learn how to make flour from acorns, one of the highest yielding and most nutritious wild crops of our forest. Try your hand at every step of the process. Experience acorn gathering, sorting, shelling, grinding, leaching and drying. Learn the deep cultural significance of acorn foods for cultures around the world. Sample acorn foods and get recipes. You’ll leave this workshop confident and ready to take acorns from the forest to your dinner table.

A bulk of the workshop will take place at our Johnston Square classroom space, but participants should come prepared to be outdoors and in the woods for a portion of this workshop.

*This workshop will include some acorn samplings, but please bring a bag lunch.

**This workshop is limited to 15 participants.

Date: October 23, 10am- 4pm        Cost: $50

Location: The Johnston Square Brick Barn, Baltimore 21202       Instructor: Lincoln Smith of Forested

**Notice of cancellation must be given 48-hrs in advance of any of our workshops or events in order to request a refund. Cancellations are subject to a $5 restocking fee. **

About the Instructor:

Lincoln Smith is the founder of Forested, a 10-acre research forest garden in Bowie, MD, which features oaks as carbohydrate crop. Lincoln teaches many courses at Forested, and creates and designs forest gardens for homes, commercial properties and public spaces. He is passionate about production ecosystems, and brings a background in agronomic science and sustainable landscape design. Lincoln started Forested, LLC to develop and share research in forest gardening. He is a regular speaker on forest gardening at venues such as University of Maryland, the U.S. Botanic Garden, and the Maryland Master Gardeners’ Conference.

About the Location:
The “Brick Barn” is a brick garage turned classroom space on Charm City Farms’ newest Permaculture farm space, a triple vacant, city-owned lot in the Johnston Square area of Baltimore. The Brick Barn serves as a classroom space for Permaculture Design Certificate courses, a workshop, and a community gathering space, with future plans to include produce processing and to serve as a local goods trading post.

The address to the barn is roughly 2000 Hillman St, Baltimore, MD 21202, directly across from Green Mount Cemetery.

 

**Notice of cancellation must be given 48-hrs in advance of any of our workshops or events in order to request a refund or credit.**

Alternative Grain Bread Making Urban Gardening Workshop

Learn through lecture and hands on demo how to bake bread with a variety of alternative grain flour.

Teacher

As the Brain Food Garden Manager, Lyssa Houser is excited to grow the Brainfood Youth Garden as an extension of Brainfood’s food-based youth development programming. Lyssa’s background in food education includes experience developing and implementing intergenerational gardening programming as the Garden and Cooking Educator for the DC Department of Parks and Recreation. She also has experience leading garden education efforts through her work as the Director of Education for Wangari Gardens, where she teaches public workshops, supervises the planning and maintenance of the public gardens, and leads solar-cooked community lunches. She has also worked with Common Good City Farm, Old City Farm and Guild, Solar Household Energy, Inc, and Love & Carrots.