by Darren | Mar 21, 2017 | AlchemyFlow, Alternative Health, Fasting, Nutrition
Starving for spring. A fasting journey by yours truly. ; Spring has sprung and with it comes an opportunity for renewal and vitality – the invitation, should you choose to accept it, is to support the body in letting go of the winter and clearing out the pipes...
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....
