The month of May is upon us and the hedgerows are cascading with the starry blossoms of the powerful hawthorn tree. Join me & Emma Lowe to learn all about this magical, edible plant with it’s distinctive, almondy scent and it rich history and folklore

Refresh your cooking repertoire with fresh, zingy and deliciously healthy Vietnamese food. It’s surprisingly easy to make once you know a few tips, tricks and what ingredients you need in your larder.

Join Erin from The Edible Flower for this hands-on cooking workshop and learn how to make Vietnamese Summer Rolls, a Vietnamese noodle salad, simple pickles and banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches). After we cook, we’ll sit down to eat our delicious dishes. Recipe sheets will be provided so that you can recreate dishes.

It’s wild garlic season! Join me to learn all about this deliciously pungent spring green and how to harvest it and how to use it in the kitchen.

Together we’ll make a batch of wild garlic pesto - enough for everyone to take some home. Then we’ll make some wild garlic malfatti (an Italian ricotta dumpling flavoured with wild garlic) and a gorgeous, rich tomato sauce to go with the dumplings. We’ll also make a whipped wild garlic butter to be devoured with plenty of fresh bread. After the cooking we’ll all sit down together for a two-course dinner featuring everything we’ve made, plus a less garlicky dessert!

Get Easter ready with macaroon nests and lemon curd cupcakes with naturally coloured icing and edible flowers. Be prepared for messy!

Learn how to make some of the most popular, classic steamed dim sum dumplings including har gow (classic prawn dim sum with its delightfully translucent wrapper), sui mai (pork & prawn) and chiu chow (squash & mushroom). We’ll be making some with dough from scratch, and some with shop bought dumpling wrappers. After a demo everyone will make their own dumplings and then we’ll sit down at the end of the evening to eat them altogether.

Explore our Irish culinary history in this hands-on bread making workshop in which you’ll make simple Irish griddle breads with your kids - soda farls and potato bread. You’ll also learn to make butter from fresh cream before enjoying the delicious breads with some homemade butter and jam.

Learn how to make classic Eastern European dumplings with delicious fillings. We’ll practice pleats, folds and different dumpling shapes, and then sit down to enjoy what we’ve made.

From Poland to Ukraine to Georgia we’ll explore tasty dumpling treats. Make a simple dumpling dough, learn how to make traditional fillings including potato & cheese, spiced minced lamb, and a sweet fruit filling, then make different dumpling shapes from pierogi and khinkali to varenyky and pelmeni. Take away a recipe sheet so you can recreate your dumplings at home.

Shake off the stagnation of Winter and gently awaken the deep feminine energy, healing power and creativity of Imbolc in your bones with this immersive day retreat set on a beautiful Georgian farmhouse in Co Down, Northern Ireland.

• Traditional Irish griddle bread making workshop.

• Feast: seasonal lunch, teas and treats

• Folk Lore & storytelling

• Craft: we will be making a St Brigit cross from reeds to take home and decorate and bless your home.

• Deeply rejuvenating sleep based meditation

• Connection with other incredible people who want to live more deeply

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Learn the art of fermentation for food preservation and health benefits. Erin from The Edible Flower will de-mystify the process of fermenting vegetables. Together we’ll make a batch of sauerkraut, a batch of simple kimchi and pickle some vegetables in a wet brine. We’ll learn about ratios of salt to vegetables, temperatures for storing your ferments, and how and why they are good for your health. Everyone will get to take home a jar of sauerkraut, kimchi and pickle.

Connect to the changing seasons with this hands-on bread making workshop. Imbolc/St Brigid’s Day, celebrated on 1 February and marking the beginnings of Spring, has been a traditional time of making butter and bannocks. We’ll make a simple Irish griddle bread made with oats and flavoured with rosemary, and butter from scratch. Then we’ll enjoy the delicious breads and butter with some homemade jam, before taking home the recipes.

Make griddle bread and butter from scratch. Then enjoy with homemade jam before taking home the recipes. Be prepared for messy!

Join Erin from The Edible Flower as she guides us through the food and customs of this famous Scottish culinary holiday. Learn how to make cullen skink soup, neeps and tatties, a creamy whiskey sauce and the famous Scottish dessert cranachan (raspberries, whipped cream and oatmeal) and more! There will be plenty of dishes to try and you'll go away with all the recipes ready to host your own Burn's Night supper.

Join The Edible Flower, a culinary luminary featured in Vogue and The Irish Times, for a unique and special workshop celebrating the Summer Solstice. In this session we will be creating gin infused with hawthorn, elderflower, roses and herbs. Exploring the folklore of these botanical ingredients, you will learn how to infuse their essence into gin. Uncover solstice traditions and mystical properties, whilst blending infusing techniques with storytelling for a taste of the past and present. You will leave with your own jar of naturally infused gin.

The Edible Flower hosts a hands-on biscuit decorating workshop with edible flowers, merging culinary skills with cultural history. Led by Erin Bunting, this session explores floral flavours in classic bakes and delves into the influence of Celtic festivals like Bealtaine on modern cuisine. Participants gain insight into baking with edible plants, as well as pressing flowers and creating natural food dyes. In addition we will learn how to make plant infused lemonade to enjoy with our newly created decorated biscuits. We will make plenty of extras to take home and share.

Gather with us to mark the celtic festival of Imbolc.

Join us at for an evening of seasonal learning, simple crafting, eating and drinking.

Learn how to make a traditional St Brigid’s Cross from rushes.

Learn about the traditions of the celtic festival of imbolc and St Brigid’s Day

Drink and eat snacks inspired by the season with like-minded cross-weavers

We’re always being asked about how we infuse our alcohol for cocktails, this workshop will teach you how to infuse alcohol yourself, with some tips on what to use, not just for Christmas but seasonally throughout the year.

We’ll start off with a seasonal cocktail and canapes, followed a demonstration on how to infuse your own alcohol. Then you will create your own festive Gin to take home, ready for Christmas and we will finish off with a final cocktail and sweet bite.

Do you fancy making your own dumplings from scratch but are not sure where to start? Join us on Wednesday 26th May to learn how to make some Asian-inspired dumplings.

Together we’ll be making both steamed and potsticker dumplings and practicing how to fold several different shapes including simple half-moons, pleated crescents and moneybags

Do you fancy making your own dumplings from scratch but are not sure where to start? Join us on Monday 29th March to learn how to make some Asian-inspired dumplings.

Do you fancy making your own dumplings from scratch but are not sure where to start? Join us on Monday 29th March to learn how to make some Asian-inspired dumplings.

Join us online on Sunday 7 June from 10am – 2.30pm, when we’ll be teaming up with our friends at Mourne Yoga for a half-day of online workshops and cook-a-long fun!

We’re pretty obsessed with plants, so lots of our food is focused on making plants the star of the show – whether that’s fruits or vegetables, salads or herbs, pulses or grains. Eating lots of plants is brilliant as it’s generally healthier for you and your family, better for the environment (especially if you buy local, seasonal and organic/pesticide free where possible) and also totally delicious!

Join us on Friday 24th January from 2pm to 6:30pm for an afternoon of hands-on cooking, learning and eating. Learn how to cook a delicious Thai meal and then sit down together with the rest of the class to enjoy the fruits of your labours.

Join us on Saturday 18 January from 2pm to 6:30pm for an afternoon of hands-on cooking, learning and eating. Learn how to cook a delicious Mediterranean inspired vegetarian meal and then sit down together with the rest of the class to enjoy the fruits of your labours.

Erin and I love dumplings. When we lived in London an awesome little dim sum restaurant opened up a few minutes walk from our house. It’s one of the few things we really miss here in rural Northern Ireland! Now we just have to make our own.

We’re delighted to be teaming up with Lorna of Soul Sister again for Samhain, the Celtic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the winter months. Expect fire, seasonal feasting and possibly a little bit of magic.