Umndeni Pots - Routes to Roots food workshop

The second Cultivating Sustainable Future workshop will be hosted in collaboration with Wild Moringa called Umndeni Pots: Routes to Roots. In the readiness of networking with like-hearted souls, they will be hosting an offering that showcases the instant play with root foods that are currently in season. Wild Moringa will share their curated family food traditions with indigenous crops, as well as the different creative and intentional ways of cooking root foods like cassava, amadumbe and yams, and their ideal pairings of the sorghum grain, vegetables and herbs. Turning these root foods into naturally sweet desserts will also be part of this offering. The moringa seed, plant, root, and leaves will play a collaborative presence in all the holistic interactions and storytelling. Some of the produce is foraged from the African Marmalade Farm.

Who is Wild Moringa?

Wild Moringa is a collective of multi-disciplinary practitioners that are partnering in life together to reconstitute and remember the relationship between land, food and family. Moringa as the tree of life, acts as a symbol of harmony between land, like-hearted community and the practices that honor inter-generational knowledge and heritage.
Wild Moringa is expressed through the practice of village making in the form of; fine and visual food art, medicinal herbal teas, purposeful clothing, intentional plant-based baking and cooking, radical farming, land and gut integrative methods, and nature-focused housing.

Bio's:
Wild Pearl is a Zulu-Shona herbal tea and plant-based cuisines magical fairy. Her joy for community holding has birthed African-centered homeschooling curriculums, musical methodologies and cultivated intentional refuge spaces for practitioners. Her current offering to humankind is soaking her heart sonically into sustainable well-being as a mermaid village doula.

Hezekia is a Malagasy creative based in Johannesburg. Across his work as a stylist, traditional masseur and culinary developer, the body has remained central. He engages through ethical creation anchored in memory and sustainable materials. He aims to build networks of collaboration where traditional methods and local expertise are used to imagine new futures.

Forest is a multidisciplinary artist currently practicing urban gardening, plant-based recipe development and sculpting inspired by his Venda Lineage from the Vhagona tribe through tracing his existence. He uses nature and food as lenses to understand African history and connect to ancient African practices.

The workshop is limited to 15 participants. In light of this intimate community experience please send us your motivation to participate and a few sentences about who you are via email to khanyisa.sigwanda@goethe.de (RSVP is subject to alignment).

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