6 July, Stanford
food as medicine
5pm for 5:30pm, Harvest Fork & Farm Restaurant
Learn How a Happy Microbiome can Treat and Prevent Most Chronic Diseases
Our next Harvest Club meetup is on Thursday, 6 July – 5 for 5:30pm – at The Harvest Fork & Farm restaurant outside Stanford.
We’ll learn about food as medicine, and how health starts with the good bugs in our gut and in our soil!
Come learn from Functional Medicine Doctor, Dr Julienne Fenwick, about your gut bugs, how to nurture them, how they affect your genetics and more!
Mark Stephens, winemaker and viticulturist at Stanford Hills, will also share how to nurture the ‘microbiome of the soil’ using regenerative farming methods using high impact, low budget, simple solutions.
And enjoy connecting with like-minded people interested in quality food, better health, natural farming and growing, and co-creating healthier local food systems.
Link between Your Microbiome and Your Health
A happy microbiome can treat and prevent most chronic diseases. But what is a microbiome and how do you nurture it?
The Microbiome of the Soil?
Simple solutions for farmers and gardeners to shift to regenerative methods that create better, living soils – for a healthier planet and people.
Our Harvest Table
Discover and taste new foodie products and meet local food producers creating wonderful foods and drinks.
Organic/Heirloom Seed Swap
Bring your organic, heirloom seeds to swap and share with others.
What do your gut bugs have to do with your health?
More than you think!
Dr Julienne Fenwick believes that a happy microbiome can treat and prevent most chronic diseases. Join us for an in depth exploration of gut bugs, how to nurture them, how they affect our genetics and more!
Dr Julienne has a passion for inspiring her patients to fall in love with life again. After years of suffering from the illusion of chronic ‘dis-ease’ and heaps of medical labels, her patients learn that their bodies want to heal themselves… we just have to teach them how.
Food as Medicine, Movement as Medicine and Mindfulness as Medicine form the pillars of her Integrative Medical Practice, Best of Both Wellness, in Hermanus.
Dr Julienne qualified at Stellenbosch University Medical School, but soon discovered the world of holistic healing and studied Integrative Medicine, with a special interest in Functional Medicine – hence her health practice being the ‘Best of Both’.
What’s So Important About Healthy Soil?
And what can we do about it?
Regenerative viticulturist and Stanford Hills winemaker, Mark Stephens, will share an alternative way of thinking about our soil and plant health.
He’ll offer simple solutions for farmers and small-scale growers alike to make a shift to regenerative farming methods without overhauling their entire systems and, importantly, without blowing their budget!
As a regenerative viticulturist, Mark focuses on building plant immunity through soil health, biodiversity and viewing the farming system as a whole.
He was first introduced to natural process farming practices back in 2009 while working in California. Since then, he has worked under some of the leaders of biodynamic, organic and biological viticulture around the world. Although his passion lies in the vineyards and translating terroir into a story around the table, the principles apply to all farming practices.
Our Venue is The Harvest Fork & Farm – 5pm for 5:30pm
This family-friendly restaurant (and working farm) is situated just outside Stanford on the Stanford Hills road.
Lisa and Adele have kindly offered us their space for the evening and will also have the following available:
Pizza!
A full cash bar.
About Your Host
Robynn de Klerk – or ‘Collaborator In Chief’
I started Harvest Club because I feel that small, regenerative farmers will save the world. But they need support.
The global industrial food system, with its chemical farming, feed lots and mass supermarkets, disconnects people from the source of their food, with unsustainable and disastrous consequences.
My mission is to help support those regenerative farmers and producers – the humble heroes healing our planet – through collaborating, sharing knowledge and opportunities, and creating a better win-win food system.
Book Your Seat Here
Seats are limited!
Please click on the 17:00 start time below and enter your details to reserve your seat.
We’ll meet from 17:00, but the talks start at 17:40.
This event is free, but booking is essential due to limited space.
What’s on the Harvest Table?
A highlight of our first event in March this year was our abundant shared Harvest Table, where we enjoyed a sampling of many different foods from different sources!
We’ll have a Harvest Table again on 6 July for sundowner snacks – but this time it’ll be a sampling of some of our local food producers’ products.
We have some incredible local artisans that deserve to be showcased, celebrated and supported!
They’ll share their skills and products with you, but in return, if there’s something you love, please show your appreciation by supporting these producers at their markets, retail outlets or buying via our food club.
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What is Harvest Club?
A movement to build a new, healthier, regenerative food system.
Harvest Club is a supportive network of foodies, farmers, growers and conscious consumers – actively collaborating, learning, sharing ideas and opportunities.
We’ve also launched a group buying club for Hermanus, Stanford & surrounds, making it easier for you to buy directly from exceptional local food makers, regenerative farmers and ethical producers – from grass-fed dairy, to grass-finished meat, organic nuts and fruits, and chemical-free products.
“The Food Club platform has been amazing for us as a growing farm business.
It has enabled us to reach lots of new people who share the same values as us (ethical, regenerative practice and quality over quantity) when it comes to choosing what to eat, while at the same time keeping the “food chain” very personal. We can communicate almost directly with the people buying our produce – through the host of each club. This allows a lot of trust and respect to flow both ways.
We believe that by eating as much as possible from our local area and supporting ethical local business, we can create a bright future in terms of soil health, planet health and our own health and well-being.”
“I love being a part of the movement to build a new, healthy, regenerative food system that’s good for the planet and good for the people who live on it!”
“Food clubs really are an ethical system – ethical in that the farmer gets a fair price for its labour, ethical to the earth and ethical to our bodies. I am so impressed.”