If you don’t menstruate, please reach out to us about possibly gaining access to a future class of equivalent value, or receiving a discount on future courses.

Yes! Email us at [email protected] so we may send you your coupon code.

Love your enthusiasm! It’s uncertain whether we will run a sophomore program. However, we certainly intend on creating more courses on fermentation, eco-parenting, composting, and so on.

No. The animal products you will see us use in this class are beeswax and honey from local beekeepers. As a former beekeeper, it’s critical for me to purchase bee products only from sources that I trust. The beeswax was from abandoned hives, and the honey that was collected was surplus honey. If you do not wish to use bee products, this class may not be for you. However, the majority of our recipes do not call for bee products.

In addition to this, our activism class will explore the many benefits of a plant-based diet for the environment.

Christelle Siohan (B.A. and M.A. in Environmental Studies) is environmental educator from Geneva, Switzerland, with a life-long passion for protecting the environment. 

Childhood: At age 7, she boldly stated she would save the environment and all animals, and threatened to shut down all power plants and industries herself (strong start, right?!). In her early childhood, she took it down a notch and began by running a recycling project at her school, leading a reforestation project in her town, and caring for injured birds. Her first job experience at 13 was at an environmental nonprofit, which protected biodiversity in the Swiss Alps.

Young Adult: She volunteered her time at turtle sanctuaries, monitoring dolphin activity in the Mediterranean, and at Power Shift conferences. She received her Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies from Connecticut College and her Master’s in Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Development from the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica. She’s interned and worked in environmental organizations, including Greenpeace, the United Nations Environment Program, and the World Wildlife Fund. She led tropical reforestation programs in Ecuador with OneAction. She’s been an environmental educator in Florida public schools, in Costa Rica at the Monteverde Institute, in Swiss private schools, and at the Eco-Institute in North Carolina.

Adult: She completed the Permaculture School at the Ashevillage Institute where she received her Permaculture Design Certificate. She also graduated from the Bee School in Orange County, NC, after which she became a beekeeper. She’s also studied foraging, herbalism, and botany in North Carolina and Connecticut, where she received the Betty Flanders Thompson prize for excellence in botany.