by Darren | Dec 19, 2015 | AlchemyFlow, Diet, Food, Food activism, Food politics, Healing, Health
19 DECEMBER, 2015 Trailing through the reams of research and stuffy articles on digestive health and autoimmune conditions, the human story can sometimes get a bit lost. For instance, there’s a great deal of focus on symptom complaints and potential remedies but...
by Darren | Nov 21, 2015 | AlchemyFlow, Alternative Health, Brighton Food, Crowdfunding, Diet, Fermentation, Food activism, Food politics, Food review, Food Waste, Fundraising, Health, Health politics, Medicine, Mental health, Nutrition, Update, Waste
Over the next month of our crowdfunding, we’ll be checking in with people who have been to one of our workshops and drawing on some of their experiences to help illustrate the benefits of supporting our work. Below we speak to Aidan who came to one of our...
by Darren | Jul 9, 2015 | AlchemyFlow, Alternative Health, Diet, Fermentation, Food activism, Food politics, Food review, Health, Medicine, Nutrition
Vessels of Dissent. Fermentation as politics from below. It’s easy to misinterpret fermentation as some unremarkable practice, carried out by fuzzy old ladies in farmhouse kitchens in the back of beyond – and of course it is, but that’s not all of...
by Darren | Mar 28, 2015 | AlchemyFlow, Brighton Food, Food politics, Food review, Waste
Odo, adored revolutionary in Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Dispossessed’, in her manifesto for a new world, envisions a system of perfect efficiency and diligence when she proclaims, ‘waste is excrement’. Closer to home, Doug McMaster of Silo,...
by Darren | Feb 9, 2015 | AlchemyFlow, Alternative Health, Fermentation, Food politics, Health, Medicine, Nutrition
This blog post on fermentation is an excerpt from the Octopus Alchemy handbook on fermentation – you can access the full text here. Fermentation: Fermentation is the transformation of food by various bacteria, fungi and the enzymes and acids that they produce....
