"Preserving the Future" - Our Theme for 2025
Join FieldSpeak this fall for Heritage Food Fest, November 7-9th at Terrapin Hill Farm in Harrodsburg, KY, where we celebrate indigenous food cultures from Guatemala to the Appalachian hollers. People from both places have gained a lot of knowledge by surviving in the mountains for centuries before the arrival of box stores.
Hear about the gardening techniques of Susana Lein, who has turned Salamander Springs Farm from a hardpan clay thicket on a ridge in Rockcastle County to one of the most productive small acreage off-grid homesteads in North America; discover the abundance of food and medicine growing in the fields and woods; learn about pickling and seed saving – just some of the many workshops that will be offered. Susana and other experienced instructors will discuss these old time skills in a face to face setting where you can ask questions and soak up their wisdom in workshops or maybe later in a one-on-one conversation.
Heritage Food Fest offers opportunities to learn about growing, gathering, processing, preparing, preserving, and sharing food suited to our home lands. Whether you favor tamales, chicharrones and manteca, or hoecakes, cracklins and lard, come fix some with us this Fall. Participate in a seed swap. Take the next step towards greater self-sufficiency, food sovereignty, and the recovery of lost know-how. Help our community sprout like old time seeds: grown not for uniformity and long-term storage, but for taste, nutrition, and diversity. We hope you join us!
Early Bird Tickets through September 15th.
Our Mission
To build skills among people in the Ohio River valley for raising, processing, preparing, and sharing food in traditional ways to improve the health of our people and our land and to prepare the way for a capable response to an uncertain future.
Learn the essentials~ get back to your roots
These days many Americans have lost touch with their food and the earth it comes from. As we shifted away from a close-knit localized society, we lost once-common skills like growing, processing, and cooking food from scratch. We lost connection to our community and our physical and our social health suffered. Heritage Food Festival offers a transformative journey back to these essential skills, empowering individuals to take control of their health and reconnect with their roots. Join us on this journey back towards a healthier and more fulfilling way of relating to food and farming.
