We have created a selection of classes that will grow over time
The Hapuku Kitchen Experience - A Farm Experience - This farm style paddock-to-plate cooking experience is suitable for all - those who are qualified chefs, home cooks, those who do not usually cook or just for those who would like to experience our way of living. The day often includes foraging, harvesting, cooking, learning, eating and drinking. We start the day with all of us donning gumboots and foraging in the garden for the ripest fruit and vegetables as well as collecting produce from our rare breed animals. What cannot be harvested from our garden or farm is sourced from local producers.
Once harvesting is complete we continue in the kitchen preparing and cooking together a seasonal feast. The cooking of dishes are shared amongst the group and although you will not individually cook every single dish on the menu Fiona will ensure that you are taught the skills and techniques of each dish. As class sizes are an intimate number of 8-10 this is your opportunity to ask questions and to learn as much as you would like - you get as much out of the experience as you put in.
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The day has been designed to be a relaxing unintimidating day of fun so that anyone can enjoy it. Young Old, strict meat eaters & Pescatarians alike.
The Hapuku Kitchen Experience
A Day with Fiona Read
Join chef Fiona for a day in her rural cook’s kitchen and prepare a seasonal feast from ingredients you’ve harvested and foraged from her garden and as well as produce from neighbouring farmers, hunters and fishers.
Discover interesting edible plants, learn new tricks in the kitchen and end the day enjoying the dishes you’ve created accompanied by a glass of local wine or beer.
Cooking Class Voucher
Not sure when you wish to join us? Wanting to spoil a very special friend or say “thanks” to a work colleague? Purchasing a voucher is an excellent way to avoid all the fuss.
Purchase a voucher for your close friend or foodie in your family