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 | Sep 18, 2016 | AlchemyFlow, Alternative Health, Fermentation, Food activism, Food politics, Health politics, Nutrition
18 SEPTEMBER, 2016 Earlier this summer, Octopus Alchemy was asked to participate in a program of talks and seminars, held for the community by the Brighton Natural Health Centre (BNHC). The centre kindly recorded the presentation to make it accessible to the wider...
by Darren | Dec 4, 2015 | AlchemyFlow, Alternative Health, Brighton Food, Crowdfunding, Diet, Fermentation, Food, Food activism, Food politics, Food review, Food Waste, Fundraising, Healing, Health, Medicine, Nutrition
4 DECEMBER, 2015 Since November 15th, Octopus Alchemy has been crowdfunding. To date, we’ve raised a staggering 55% of our overall target (about £2100) and the donations keep coming thick and fast. I’m completely overwhelmed by the generosity and interest in the...
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
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 it. In fact, the potency of those few fizzing mason jars...
