Experience yourself and Gozo in a holistic way!
This course involves hiking and collecting of wild herbs, fruits and flowers. We will transformed nature into food and art. Likewise, in one day the power of nature will significantly support our physical well-being by using collected natural products from Gozo for massage, peeling and face mask.
This course takes place in small groups of min. 1 - max. 6 people and is held (depending on the weather) at different locations.
Course duration: 25 hours
Course dates: bookable on request from October to the end of May
Price: €650
Program:
“HERBS AND ART” 10.00-15.00
Herb hike to Hermi's dreamland.
Collecting edible herbs and fruits, roots and natural objects for the impression in our ceramics
Make incense bowl and burner out of clay.
Cook and enjoy lunch: Write down the recipe:
Arugula salad with Darniella melitensis (Maltese Salt Tree) and sweet Alyssum Lobularia maritima (Sweet Silverwort)
Potato soup with various herbs (thyme & marjoram)
Yoghurt with Hawthorns (hawthorns)
Making the Obvara Mixture
“GOZO’S NATURAL BEAUTIES” 10.00-17.00
Gozo Round Tour by Car: Salt Pans, Wied Milah, Clay Slopes
Cook and enjoy lunch:
Nasturtium/Orange Salad (Nasturtium)
Polenta with wild thyme mix
Prickly pear (autumn) or Naspla (spring) with fruit sauce
Paint the cookbook cover with “one line”.
Collecting clay for the next day's scrub
Land art with natural materials on the beach
“HEALTH & BEAUTY DAY 10.00-14.30
Venue: Hermi's Dreamland
Venue: Hermi's Dreamland
Beauty stations at the field
Hike to Hermi's dreamland and collect wild herbs
relaxation with:
singing bowl
Indian head massage
Foot bath with sage, mint and thyme and salt
Prepare and cook lunch of wild herbs
begilla
Pasta with glass cabbage
Yoghurt with pomegranate (autumn), fried elderflowers and rose geranium (spring) with almond crunch
Polishing clay bowl and burner with semi-precious stone
“ART AND FIRE” 17.00-21.00
Venue: Hermi's Dreamland
Glazing and firing the incense bowl and root sculpture
Prepare and cook beans and herb sausages
Hot dog with bean sausage
Carob cream with mint
Burning of the incense bowl and the sculpture pieces with dinner
“CAVE HIKE with herbal incense” 10.00-14.30
“CAVE HIKE with herbal incense”
Walk with incense
Review: thanks and preview: wish incenses with the collected wild herbs
Paint the cookbook folder with colors from nature.
Prepare and cook lunch of wild herbs
Herbs fried in beer batter
Wild spinach (beet leaves) with bean sausage
fruits
Completion of the natural sculpture and the cookbook folder