Pickles and summer ferments at Ravenscraig Walled Garden
Join us for a hands-on pickling and fermenting workshop set in the beautiful surroundings of our community training garden. We’ll explore how simple, seasonal ingredients can become vibrant, nourishing ferments and discuss the flavours, techniques and wellbeing benefits of lacto fermentation and pickling.
We’ll work outdoors if the weather allows, or in our cosy on-site cabin if not.
You’ll learn how fermentation works as we prepare pickled courgettes with herbs and make lacto‑fermented carrots and tomatoes, using fresh produce and seasonal herbs from the garden. Along the way, we’ll taste a range of fermented foods, talk about how to introduce them into everyday meals, and explore why they’re so good for our gut health and overall wellbeing.
You’ll head home with:
- Your own jars of fermented carrots and tomatoes and pickled courgettes
- Clear recipes and guidance so you can keep experimenting at home
- Inspiration for using seasonal veg in new and delicious ways
No experience is needed – just curiosity, a love of good food, and a willingness to try something new in our lovely garden setting.
Booking Information
Full price: £35
Greener Kirkcaldy members/volunteers: £31.50
Concessions*: £28
*Greener Kirkcaldy is committed to accessibility and we offer a concession rate to people in receipt of the following benefits: Students (full time), Senior Citizens (65+), eligible benefits (Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Income based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income based Employment and Support Allowance, Housing Benefit and Universal Credit).
We also offer a free basic community cooking skills and household budgeting programme to help people on a low income cook healthy and affordable meals: Smart Cooking
Our booking form includes a series of optional anonymous questions. These help us learn more about the people we reach through our events. Any information you choose to share about your background is managed separately to information that you give us to process your booking (for example, your name).
If you have any problems booking or any questions, please phone 01592 858458 or email info@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.
Refund policy – We can refund your order up until 7 days before the event. If you cancel your order less than 7 days before the event we will be unable to provide a refund.
Accessibility
There are accessible parking spaces on site. Please note the terrain is mostly flat and the paths are gravel. The venue is outdoors with the exception of the working cabin.
If you have any other accessibility questions please phone 01592 858458 or email info@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.
About our events
Our paid courses and workshops are run as a social enterprise. By taking part, you are helping to make a difference in our community.
Your support helps us continue to work with beginner cooks; people in training and on placement young people and support people in food insecurity access food in a dignified way.
Greener Kirkcaldy Gift Card
You can buy a Greener Kirkcaldy gift card online. You can use them to purchase tickets for any of our social enterprise workshops. You can use them more than once so if you do not spend the full amount in one go you can spend the rest at a later date.
