GRANDMA' COOKING CLASS
- Umbria - Perugia
- 3 hours
- all year round
from € 54
Grandma will be watching you closely while you experiment in the kitchen with traditional specialties. You could also benefit from her knowledge and expertise. All the typical dishes cooked during the lesson, such as homemade pasta and cake "al testo" (flat special bread), will then be combined with the wines of the winery.
PASTRY CLASS WITH OVERNIGHT STAY
- Abruzzo - L'Aquila
- 2 days / 1 night
- all year round excluding february
from € 160
Take part in a meeting of a few hours to learn how to make typical sweets and rituals of the Abruzzo tradition, such as ferratelle, milk biscuits and taralli cooked in a wood oven, to bring home a bit of knowledge of Abruzzo cuisine and a bit of relaxation.
BAKING CLASS WITH OVERNIGHT STAY
- Abruzzo - L'Aquila
- 2 days / 1 night
- all year round excluding february
from € 160
Take part in a meeting of a few hours to learn how to make typical sweets and rituals of the Abruzzo tradition, such as ferratelle, milk biscuits and taralli cooked in a wood oven, to bring home a bit of knowledge of Abruzzo cuisine and a bit of relaxation.
WEAVING LESSON WITH OVERNIGHT STAY
- Abruzzo - L'Aquila
- 2 days / 1 night
- all year round excluding february
from € 180
Following an introduction to the craft of weaving, you will learn the fundamental methods used in this age-old art form and create your own piece of native wool with the assistance of an expert.
GOLDSMITH'S WORKSHOP WITH OVERNIGHT STAY
- Abruzzo - L'Aquila
- 2 days / 1 night
- all year round excluding february
from € 230
Visit to the "Jewel Museum", a few kilometers from the village, and a workshop. With the help of an experienced goldsmith, you will make a small amulet to bring with you. In the afternoon, you will taste anti-witchcraft infusions while listening to stories and anecdotes about Abruzzo amulets.
COURSE FABLES AND FAIRY TALES
- Italy
- Duration to be agreed
- Period on request
The course is aimed at the creation of fairy tales. A fairy tale is the prose or verse telling of a story in which the main characters are usually thinking and talking animals, more rarely humans or things, and is intended to teach something by example, that is, to provide a moral. Possessing the tools to create these small narrative compositions is an indispensable skill to bring us closer to nature and experience its essence.
BASIC WILD COOKING COURSE
- Province of Monza and Brianza - Lombardy
- from 5:30 pm
- Period on request
Learn how to use in cooking particular wild ingredients collected in the mountains, in the countryside, in the woods or on the beaches. The course will focus on simple, healthy, natural, and amazing preparations to replicate at home to bring wild nature to our tables.
BASIC MYCOLOGY COURSE
- Province of Sondrio - Lombardy
- from 10 a.m.
- Period to be agreed
A mycology course allows us to immerse ourselves in nature by learning to respect and know the environment, its dynamics, and ecosystems. It teaches us about the amazing realm of mushrooms and how to collect them in the most environmentally and ecosystem-friendly way.
HOME LIQUOR MAKING COURSE
- Province of Monza and Brianza – Lombardy
- from 5 p.m.
- Period on request
This course will teach you how to use herbs, seeds, fruits, roots, lichens, barks, and many other wild ingredients to compose healthy natural liqueurs such as flavoured grappas, homemade liqueurs, preserves in spirit and much more!
COURSE ON SUBSISTENCE FLOURS
- Province of Monza and Brianza - Lombardy
- from 5 p.m.
- Period on request
Learn how to make subsistence flours and how to use them. Have you ever thought you could use flour from lichens, wild fruits, or the inner barks of trees to make sweet and savoury doughs? Besides being very nutritious and very organoleptically stimulating, subsistence flours are also very rich in chemical
compounds that interact positively with many types of dough. Ready for this super wild journey?
WATERCOLOR BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION
- Province of Monza and Brianza – Lombardy
- from 5:30 p.m.
- Period on request
Learning to draw botanicals with watercolours is an extraordinary way to learn about the wild botanicals growing around us. The illustrator will take us on a journey of discovery of basic watercolour and drawing techniques, putting his experience as an illustrator and artist at our disposal.
COURSE OF NATURAL HERBAL TEAS
- Province of Monza and Brianza - Lombardy
- from 5:30 pm
- Dates on request
Learn how to use herbs, seeds, fruits, roots, lichens, barks, and many other wild ingredients to compose healthy, personalized, and delicious herbal teas and infusions suitable for every eventuality.
COURSE OF NATURAL COSMETICS
- Province of Monza and Brianza - Lombardy
- from 3 p.m.
- Dates on request
This course is aimed at learning how to use herbs, seeds, fruits, roots, lichens, barks, and many other wild ingredients to compose healthy natural cosmetics such as lip balms, body balms, bath salts, scrubs, body oil baths, and more.
COURSE OF NATURAL DYEING
- Province of Monza and Brianza - Lombardy
- from 10 am
- Dates on request
This course will teach you how to use herbs, flowers, leaves, peels, fruits and roots, lichens, barks, and many other wild ingredients to make natural dyes for your fabrics of natural fibres such as cotton, hemp, wool, and linen. Dyeing your own clothes, tablecloths, and fabrics with harvested ingredients means
bringing colour and life to fabrics in a sustainable and completely natural way.
FOREST BATHING COURSE
- Italy
- 4 sessions of 4/6 hours over 4 days
- Dates on request
Forest Bathing is a deep sensory immersion practice with proven beneficial effects on a psycho-physical, social, environmental, and spiritual level. Although today we live in cities filled with asphalt on a subconscious level, we always need greenery to return to our state of physiological well-being. Through this practice you will help your body improve weakened immunity.
COURSE CREATION EXPLORER DIARY
- Italy
- Duration to be agreed
- Dates on request
This course is aimed at composing our own travel journal to accompany us in our explorations. We will learn how to structure a book so that it functions as an herbarium, a binder of maps that we will draw to orient ourselves in the territories we explore, a notebook for our freehand sketches that will collect natural elements and landscapes using mixed techniques.
NATURE REFUGE CREATION COURSE
- Italy
- Duration to be agreed
- Dates on request
This course is aimed at building a shelter in nature using materials available in the habitat explored. A shelter can be an extraordinary way to play with the environment but also a useful element to deal with an emergency such as a thunderstorm, a night to spend out of doors in adverse weather conditions.
COURSE READING ANIMAL TRACKS
- Italy
- Duration to be agreed
- Dates on request
This course is aimed at recognizing through animal tracks, which wildlife population lives in the area we are exploring. The course teaches how to look for signs of the passage of small and large mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. Footprints, moults, fur, droppings, antlers, food, signs, and many other elements will be helpful in identifying the type of mammals living in a specific area.
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE
- Italy
- Duration to be agreed
- Dates on request
This course will teach the basics of being able to document through the language of photography our adventures in the wilderness. Photographing animals or the explored territory means getting closer to it.
We will learn how to use our smartphones or cameras and exploit their potential to compose a narrative that will be shared and commented on during the course.
COURSE LISTENING AND RECORDING NATURAL SOUNDS
- Italy
- Duration to be agreed
- Dates on request
The course is aimed at listening to natural sounds and recording them, to compose soundscapes to be listened to again, to experience, when desired, the excitement of exploring a wilderness. The course is led by an experienced film and television sound engineer who will help listening to the natural sounds we discover from time to time, then going on to record them via our smartphones or professional recording tools.