Edible Alchemy Foods

05/24/2022

Know your farmer, know your food:

02/13/2022

We have two more work/trade positions available for our kitchen at Unleash Miami, March 10-13!

DM for details!

02/06/2021

Winter Healing: Medicinal Teas, Tinctures, Fermentation - https://mailchi.mp/8aaf8f61f4c2/nourishment-healing

01/21/2021

Medicinal teas up!!
Grown on the Eco Collective Chicago rooftop garden and blended by Gaea Lady...
Nourishing, women's blend, restorative, calming, immune, and uplift teas.

Email us ediblealchemy@gmail.com

Or see Gaea Lady s new shop (we don't use our EA one anymore)
Www.gaealadychicago.com/shop

   GAEA LADY  FIRE SILK CLASSES KITCHEN WITCHERY SHOP ACTIVISM   An enchantress by nature, she will make you feel the earth move. Gaea Lady embraces Self-Love as Radical Activism Gaea supports Humans of all Identities. Gaea Lives Artfully. Gaea is: Courageous. Transformative. Inspiring. Elementa...

06/04/2020

We need your help! Can you help source food?! Helping with Healthy Hood Chicago and...

1. Looking for humans on the south side/burbs/wherever to connect a field full of donated kale in Champain/Urbana to the city for meal distribution. if you can donate time for veg processing and car loads, let me know!!

2. bulk donations of FRESH food! or $$ to purchase them!

Contact ediblealchemy@gmail.com

With love,
Andrea

Ty delanoche for the info and idea on this!

05/30/2020

Sun-Exposure Body Care Class June 2020
hosted by the The Morton Arboretum
Friday June 5, 2020 11am-12:30pm
registration below

Summer is here & it’s high time to learn to mix your own skincare products using natural household ingredients.

Join Andrea Mattson aka Gaea Lady, who is an herbal alchemist & a kitchen witch, & create all-natural skincare recipes
Learn about the benefits of oils & apple cider vinegar on your skin
Pamper yourself after seeing the summer sun with golden body oil, nourishing facial serum, & a balancing spray customized to your skin
Discover how to make your own rosemary-citrus deodorant

Join Gaea at her home of the Eco Collective ONLINE to learn the basics of creating natural skincare remedies to repair and replenish sun-kissed skin. With the summer sun growing in intensity, many of your strongest allies are indeed in your cupboard. In this class, learn why your skin reacts as it does to the sun, and how you can best support it to keep it healthy and glowing all your life long.

Follow along & make at home, or simply watch this entertaining human GO. you’ll finish armed with nourishing, all-natural recipes and the know-how to mix up your own concoctions at home.

Register here: https://www.mortonarb.org/courses/week-wellness-online

About the instructor:
Andrea Mattson aka Gaea Lady is a decade-long member of the Eco Collective in Pilsen where she manages the rooftop garden and teaches practical, food-related workshops to students of all ages. She is also an international burlesque superstar, and teaches burlesque, bellydance, silk veil classes, and dance. She is a community-builder at heart & thrives on finding creative ways to bring her passion for gardening, cooking, dancing, performing, fabric, and medicinal herbs to others. She loves to ferment, experiment, learn and problem solve—especially when it involves seasonal, local ingredients.

03/20/2020

Apocalypse skill #1 : learn to ferment vegetables.

Kimchi and kraut are fantastic foods to have on hand in your kitchen- and making a gallon batch costs about as much as a jar in the store. Live ferments can help keep you super healthy with probiotics for gut & vegan health, fresh vitamins, and fiber.

Plus- oh the pungent taste & sour crunch. :)

Join Gaea's Patreon to access the video + many more recipes & information (and dance instruction + photography + more)

support small businesses and artists! Its crucial as the world restructures!

Join Gaea Lady on Patreon to get access to this post and more benefits.

02/05/2020

Good day!
Nourish yourself well today.
♡
Xo

01/25/2020

Herbal witchery-
Name this herb!
🥬🥬🥬
Illinois grown goodness for last year's acro camp with
⭐

01/16/2020

How are you nourishing yourself today?
As we ground into our human bodies, I encourage you to sit and be aware of how your food integrates into your system. Using your senses, enjoy this
5 minute eating meditation for your lunch today;
Sit comfortably. Or stand. But take a moment in private
First- how does it smell? Look? Feel in your hand or on your fork?
What are you most excited to put in your mouth?
Take a bite. Chew slowly. Feel it on your tongue, teeth, roof.
Swallow. Feel how your body uses gravity to glide the masticated food into your belly.
Repeat.
Take deep breaths between bites.
Check in.
Notice nuance.
Smell.
Taste.
Sight.
Delight.
Mental states.
And notice when you're full.
Then stop.
Now:
How does digestion feel?
Notice.
♡
Eat well, my lovelies.
Xo
Gaea