Workshops

Aging Successfully: A Functional Medicine Retreat with Carrie Levine MSN, CNM, IFMCP

Join Carrie Levine, local certified nurse midwife and functional medicine practitioner, for a three-day exploration of what it means to, and what we can do to, age successfully. Each day will include a healthy, delicious meal prepared by Salt Water Farm to reinforce the dietary concepts learned in class. Students are encouraged to read Carrie’s book, Whole Women Health(opens in a new tab), prior to the retreat to get the most out of this experience. 

People are increasingly curious about how to improve health span – the time we spend feeling, being, and living… Read more

Pastry and Baking three day workshop:

Learn the foundations of a professional pastry kitchen in this immersive three day class designed for enthusiastic home bakers. We will explore two very versatile doughs, brioche and choux pastry and learn how these classics can be transformed into an array of sweet and savory creations. Students will gain confidence in mixing, shaping, proofing, and finishing these doughs into cinnamon rolls, buns, gougères, and cream puffs.

The course will also build essential pastry technique with lessons in soufflés, custards, tarts, cakes and introductory sugar work, emphasizing temperature control, flavor balance,… Read more

Each winter, I head South with my family to Mexico, a country that has held a special place in my heart since I was a child. My parents lived in Mexico City before I was born and their tales of delicious street tamales, long, fancy brunches and parties that lasted well past midnight peaked my interest. My father and I would spend the better part of a weekend making mole on our suburban stovetop as he would tell me tales of living in Mexico. As an adult and a cook, Mexico holds even greater intrigue. My husband and I (and now our daughter) have explored the Yucatan Peninsula, the state of Oaxaca and Chiapas and found a second home in Mexico… Read more

YOU’VE STARTED YOUR MEMOIR. NOW WHAT?

Join Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, at beautiful Salt Water Farm in coastal Maine for three days of inspiration. 

You’ve begun your memoir.You’ve gone from thought to action by putting words on paper. That’s huge.

Now, what’s next?

This three-day workshop will address that question in its many forms.

We’ll work on the kinds of puzzles, problems and decisions you’ll encounter as you delve deeper and write on.Questions of structure.Of making your people come alive on the page.

Of creating a sense of expectation and drama.Of finding meaning to your story,… Read more

Details to Come