The Magic of Fermentation with Sandor Katz

Biodiversity from our bodies to our soil...

In this talk, Sandor Katz, award-winning fermentation expert, is in conversation with Schumacher Head Gardener Colum Pawson. Together they explore the myriad ways fermentation impacts our lives, from our physical health to our soil health.

To add to this evening of exploring the magic of fermentation, Norwegian artist Eva Bakkeslett invited the first 30 people who arrive on the night to receive a gift of bacteria cultures, either yogurt or sourdough, in hand sewn envelopes made out of horse poo which can later be planted.

ABOUT SANDOR KATZ
Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. His books Wild Fermentation and the Art of Fermentation, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts.

A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, the New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” Sandor is the recipient of a James Beard award and other honors.

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ABOUT EVA BAKKESLETT
Eva Bakkeslett is an artist, filmmaker, curator and cultural activist exploring the potential for social change through gentle actions and subtle mindshifts. Through her work she mediates relationships between humans, nature and culture as a living organism. Fermentation as a process and metaphor is central to her work and is often communicated in the form of socially engaged and inclusive projects.

Eva shows, lectures and performs her work worldwide and her films have been screened in numerous film festivals and art events. As a curator, she has focused on the connection between art and ecology through Gentle Actions at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, in 2010, the Repair program at gallery ROM, Oslo in 2016-17 and in her most recent project The Conference of the Birds 2018-23. Eva has an MA in Art & Ecology from Dartington College of Art in England, and lives on Engeløya in North Norway. There she has created an Artist Residency program and a guest studio as a platform for aesthetic collaborations and enquiry founded in ecological and interconnected thinking and working.