Back to the Land:
culinary immersion and retreat
The weekend of August 26th - 28th, 2016
Merging traditional food and ancestral knowledge
Back to the Land is a level 1 training with a strong focus on building culinary technique, understanding traditional diets, and merging the forest & the farm for optimal health and wellness. Spanning over 3 days, we will spend lots of time in the kitchen as well as outdoors, enjoying the garden, spring fed pond, and the forest.
It's time to reconnect with the land and learn to live simply, eat properly, and work with nature's most valuable resources.
Enjoy a weekend of education and inspiration that you can put into immediate action and improve the life of those you love!
Join Chef Frank Giglio and team on Three Lily Farm in Midcoast Maine. Get immersed in the active, hands-on culinary centered weekend focused around traditional diets and seasonal eating.
Weekend Retreat Includes
7 Locally Centered Organic Meals
Learn the Core of Traditional Cookery
Food Preservation & Fermentation
Learning about Herbs and a Home First Aid Kit
Harvesting from the Garden for our meals
Camping under the Stars at Three Lily Farm
Swimming in our Spring Fed Pond
Digital Recipe Book including all classes and meals from the weekend
Foraging & Nature Hikes
Frank's specialty fermented drinks!
Harvest & Make Medicine from the Land
We are so excited to announce our guest speaker for this workshop:
Arthur Haines
Learn more about Arthur and his teachings in this video below:
Experience the Freshness of Wild Food from the Land
Learn, Explore, Share
Basic food principles of traditional diets and how to properly prepare the food you eat
How to incorporate wild foods into your daily diet
Knife skills, ingredient selection, and flavor balancing
Learn about the Neo-Aboriginal Lifestyle and Rewilding
How to implement seasonal foods into your daily diet
Harvesting herbs, making tinctures and salves
Basic butchering, fermentation, and cheese making
Learn how to build a primitive fire and set up an outdoor cooking station
Connect, Relax, Restore
A Sample Day at Back to the Land
7:30 am - Coffee, Chaga tea, Local Fruit-Yogurt Smoothies
8:00 am - Movement & Walking on the Land
9:00 am - Breakfast Techniques
10:00 am - Knife Skills
11:00 am Foraging and Into the Garden
12-2 pm - Lunch and Break
2 pm - Fermentation & Food Preservation
3 pm - Cheese Making
4:30 pm - Dinner Cooking Techniques
6:30 pm - Dinner
8 pm - Fireside Hang & Chat with Arthur Haines
About Chef Frank
Frank Giglio wears many hats. At age 15, he fell in love with the fascinating world of food. Eager and intrigued, he began apprenticing directly under some of the top chefs in the US, which instilled a deep understanding of the creative process in working with food. He became a classically trained chef at the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, VT, Years later would go on to graduate from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in NYC, a program would deepen his love for health and nutrition.
While Giglio’s culinary offerings are based in classic technique and traditional foods preparation, he has also been immersed in using food as medicine. Wearing his chef’s hat, he focuses on sustainable cuisine, seeking the highest quality foods grown locally and harvested in season, supporting the crucial farm to table method of preparing food. He remains deeply connected to the earth in his daily life, using wild harvesting as a way to ReWild himself by consuming foods found naturally on the landscape. Frank creates innovative dishes that are wholesome, full of vitality and have a very small ecological footprint. He is blessed to share this passion with his students and also with his wife Camille and their young son Wilder.
Frank and his family live off-the-grid in midcoast Maine, where enjoys spending as much time as possible outdoors, which he believes directly influences his time in the kitchen. He competes in endurance events through the mountains, prowls the woods for wild edibles, seeks out and collects spring water, seamlessly blending his love of nature with his love for food and authentic nourishment.
Giglio's adventurous culinary offerings have been showcased throughout the health community as Frank is the featured chef for Dr. Alejandro Junger’s NY Times Best-Selling Clean Eats Cookbook. Frank has catered weddings, special events, and weekend workshops across the country and regularly feeds guests at Daniel Vitalis and Arthur Haines ReWilding courses. Through his many ventures and projects, Frank Giglio is helping to bring the local and sustainable food movement to communities everywhere, making it extremely accessible and incredibly delicious!
Note from Frank:
This workshop is the culmination of my 15+ years working in the culinary field. It gives me great pleasure to invite a small group of like minded folks to mind home and share my skills, experiences and my passion for fresh, real, wholesome food. My goal in this workshop is to awaken the innate ability to nourish oneself and your family. By teaching you the basic fundamentals of cooking, from knife skills to flavor combinations, it is my hope that you will walk away with confidence and inspiration to take your culinary skills to the next level.
About our Guest Speaker: Arthur Haines
Arthur Haines is a forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher. He grew up in the western mountains of Maine, a rural area that was home to swift streams known for their trout fishing. He spent most of his childhood in the Sandy River Valley hiking, tracking, and foraging. Arthur now runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills. He continues to spend a great deal of his free time practicing his skills as a modern hunter-gatherer. As a research botanist for the New England Wildflower Society, he recently completed a comprehensive flora of the New England region entitled “Flora Novae Angliae” and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science. His series of YouTube videos has inspired thousands of people interested in foraging wild edible and medicinal plants. Learn more at www.arthurhaines.com.
Relax and enjoy in the waters of our Spring Fed Pond
Join us for a summer getaway!
Workshop Cost: $495 per adult
