Fiddlehead Festival Day 2 - Earth Day Celebration and 6th Annual Mountain Rose Herbs Taptakeover!
Featuring one-of-a-kind fermentations with Mountain Rose Herbs ingredients and wild foraged fruits and botanicals, workshops, demos, live music and Earth Day Rally for Forests and Climate Change
Saturday April 22nd, 3pm-10pm
-ALL AGES - Free Event -
Main Stage Schedule
3:00 pm Casanostra
4:00 pm Speaker from the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
4:10 pm Geoffrey Mays
5:10 pm Earth Day Rally for Forests and Climate!
5:20 pm Joshua Caraco Kora Trio
6:20 pm Speaker from Mountain Rose Herbs: Sustainability Coordinator Buck Olen
6:30pm Kyran Johnson
7:00 pm The Sugar Beets
8:00 pm A Preview in anticipation for the 5th Annual Environmental Film Festival!
8:15 pm Baroque Betty
9:00 pm Mood Area 52
Demonstrations in the Mezzanine
Free to attend, come early for a seat and visit the vendor booths to learn more
3:30 pm - Healing Salves: with Lela Sky
Sit with Lela Sky as she pays homage to and gives respect for the spirit of the plants and ingredients used in her healing salves. Giving blessings and gratitude as she shares some of the secrets beyond the tangible world.
4:30 pm - Blending Restorative Bitters: by Cheri Hammons of High Street Tonics
Join Cheri Hammons as she dives into the history and lore surrounding bitters and the ways to balance and blend them together.
5:30 pm - Discover Koji The Essential of Japanese Food Culture & Learn Various Ways of Using Miso in Your Cooking: By Midori Uehara
Join Midori Uehara as she takes us on a journey to her homeland of Japan and introduces us to Koji, the hardworking mycelium, a fungus responsible for flavor explosion found in Miso, shoyu (soy sauce), mirin, sake, and rice vinegar. Midori, the founder of Mido’s Miso grows Koji on rice, here in Oregon. Her products include Chickpea and Soy Miso.
6:30 pm - Behind the Design of the Taptakeover: How WildCrafted Apples interact with WildCrafted Herbs as an essential ingredient: By Sean Kelly
Join Sean Kelly, cidermaker and founder of WildCraft Cider Works as he talks about the importance of wild apples. How the native yeasts from uncultivated fruit are important and all the things you can do with it (cider, fermenting breads, juices, vinegars). Highlighting how this process supports preservation of vegetables and herbal extracts.
Live Painting: by Lola Buckwald
Workshops in the Cider Mill
4:15pm Honey + Vinegar Herbal Fusion:
DIY Oxymel Workshop with Dani, Creatix of Moon Mama Medicine
5;45 pm - Create Your Own Native Bee House:
With Jenna of Parker Learning Gardens
FOUR TASTING AREAS WITH UNIQUELY THEMED BARS
Full Menu Coming Soon!
Tasting Room
Side Stage Bar
Main Stage Bar
Mezzanine Bar
Specialty Food Menus from WildCraft including collaborative offerings
Stage floor Menu
-Truffle Mac and Cheese -
Lumachine pasta, farmstead white cheddar, mozzarella, house Oregon white truffle oil, parmesan encrusted. (Vegetarian)
-Aliou’s Jollof Rice w/ Stewed Vegetables - (Vegan, GF)
Delicious One Pot Senegalese dish Traditionally made with fish (Cheebu Jen) This is a Vegan rendition. Tomato based stewed cabbage, sweet potatoes, bell pepper, parsley, habanero and garlic. Broken rice is then finished in the stewed juices and served back together.
-Kolrabi and Baby Mustard Greens Salad w/ house fire cider vinaigrette (Vegan, GF)
Savory Crepes:
-Mushroom Smoked Salmon -Local mushrooms, Fish Market smoked salmon and fermented squash bechamel. Topped with wild miner's lettuce salad.
-Seasonal Roasted Vegetable - Roasted veg, farmhouse white cheddar, house cider vinegar gastrique. Topped with mixed greens and lemon caper dressing. (Vegetarian)
Sweet Crepe: -Membrillo - Mascarpone-manchego sweet cream and nutmeg dusting.
WildCraft Dock Kitchen Menu
-Bone Broth Miso -
House bone broth, Soy Mido’s Miso, rolled stinging nettle, green onion, brown rice and rockfish fish ball (GF)
-Vegan Miso -
Medicinal mushroom broth (MRH Turkey Tail, Chaga, Reishi), Chickpea Mido’s Miso, fresh stinging nettle, toasted sesame oil, Surata tofu, gomasio. (Vegan, GF)
-Grilled Fermented Napa Salad -
Pepper brine fermented Whole Napa cabbage, celeriac and onion. Flash grilled w/ fermented garlic squash and mustard dressing (Vegan, GF)
-Spicy Chicken Skewers -
Cubed local boneless chicken thighs, marinated in our house fermented hot pepper sauce and grilled to perfection. Peruvian creamy salsa verde dipping sauce. (GF)
PLUS Delicious Local Authentic Sicilian Food from PJ Cannoli!
Hosting the official after party to the Earth Day Rally for Forests and Climate!
Co-sponsored by Oregon Wild, 350Eugene, Cascadia Wildlands, Coast Range Association, Climate Justice League, KS Wild, and Forest Web
The non-profit groups will be tabling and providing support and information on how you can get involved in their projects
Additional Community Members in Attendance: Eugene Environmental Film Festival, School Garden Project, Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
And Beyond Toxics! - Join them for Flower Sashay Making!