We are a sustainable farm with vintage charm. Our aim is to create an enjoyable, and simple path for a healthy food journey to begin. We offer plant-based cooking instruction on site called “Feast in the Forest Teaching Kitchen” (registered as a NPO). We are a Wellness Tourism themed business. Here participants learn how food is grown, harvested, and prepared.

We also offer a special program called “The Yoga of Food” combining restorative yoga practice with mindful eating education. Yoga Instructors are able to earn their required Continuing Education Credit/s.

We discovered, along the way that many people want to eat first, then learn where the food comes from and how it is made. On site, we have recently opened a Botanical Tea Room. We serve traditional Afternoon Tea with a Botanical Twist!

While it might appear indulgent, we integrity, we have reduced much of the excess sugar — and added nutrition to each recipe.

We are United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary too!

With the support of a SARE Grant, we launched a series of mindful eating workshops, growing a broad variety of leafy greens for our workshop tastings. We are located in the Ozark Highlands of rural Missouri. It is a place of natural beauty; forest and scenic waterways. It is also home to traditional American Heritage Country Comfort Food, abundant wine and beer trails along nostalgic Rout 66. Growing food in our region is challenging; We have many audiences during tourism season, our unstable stormy weather conditions and high heat and humidity in the summer, followed by freezing winters. The soil is rocky with heavy clay, and we are blessed with many insects and weeds representative on prairie life. Small-scale farmers face many economic challenges in developing a sustainable small-scale business model growing local produce, which impacts menus for chefs and availability of local in grocery stores.

Solution: We hope to be part of a solution offering a Slow and Sustainable Agriculture Tourism Destination “Eco-Gastronomy for the Rural Economy (working in harmony with Slow Food USA).

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Feast in the Forest Teaching Kitchen

Feast in the Forest Teaching Kitchen

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