by Darren | Aug 23, 2016 | AlchemyFlow, Fermentation, Food, Health
23 AUGUST, 2016 In 2015, AlchemyFlow held a fermentation workshop at a vegan cafe in St Leonard’s – A year on, we catch up with Scott Garrett to talk about his workshop experience and the impact it’s had on his own practice and local community. Scott Garrett What is...
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 | Aug 16, 2015 | AlchemyFlow, Brighton Food, Diet, Health, Medicine, Nutrition, Recipes
The motivation behind this blog was never to showcase particular recipes as such – but it just feels selfish to keep these two hidden away from the rest of the world. You can only post so many pictures of raw chocolate creations to your facebook feed before...
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 | 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....
