You can finally get curious and learn the foundations of wholesome plant-based cooking.

This interactive retreat is a brilliant chance for beginners to experienced cooks to be inspired with natural, additive-free ingredients such as pulses, grains and vegetables. With step-by-step support from Aimee herself, you will have an opportunity to get creative with plant-based, gluten free, whole foods that’ll enrich your life and those around you.

Highlights include:

• Interactive cooking experiences in a relaxed, welcoming kitchen.

• Explore new techniques and learn the foundations of wholesome plant-based cooking for quick and easy healthy meals.

• Discover superfoods, wild herbs, mushrooms, seaweed and more.

• Walk away with confidence and knowledge so that you can cook plant-based, gluten free at home.

• Preparing together a plant-based 3 course feast.

• Access to Aimee to ask her all your questions.

Dates:

Arrive 16:00 - Friday, 7 March 2025
Depart 10:00 - Sunday, 9 March 2025

Example Day Schedule:

7am Guest rising and hot drinks

7.30am-9am Morning Yoga and Meditation

9.15am Breakfast

10.30am-12.30pm Cooking Session 1

1pm-2pm Lunch

2.30pm-3.30pm Cooking Session 2

4pm Tea and Snack

6pm-7pm Evening Yoga and Meditation

7.30pm Plant Based Feast

8.30pm Fire pit and fire cider (weather permitting)

Yoga Teacher: Laura Bell

Laura is a yoga teacher and founder of Zest Life. Growing up at Plas Ashpool, her family home, Laura’s passion for nature and wellness grew, and it is here her inspiration for The Zest Life retreats began. She teaches vinyasa flow based yoga, a style that has come from her 20 years of yoga practice, focuses on movement with breath and alignment. Classes are set to rejuvenate the body and focus the chattering mind. Through continued meditation her practise follows a spiritual path which she incorporates into her teachings both on and off the mat.

Chef: Aimee Walker

A former restaurant Head Chef and practicing artist, Aimee’s delivery is rooted in local produce and wild food that grounds you in deep nourishment. Working closely with the intentions of the retreat, Aimee is able to create a culinary experience that is wholesome and enlivening to your senses. Since a young age she’s been fascinated with gathering herbs and produce from the areas we live and how meals made with love and affection can bring people together. It is this act of alchemy that enriches her curious nature to explore land, flavours, and storytelling through food.