Deep Food 2024 Application

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Deep Food is a 10-day intensive communal learning environment taking place in Paoli, Indiana from August 16-25, 2024 focused on growing, cooking, eating, preserving, planning, thinking about, and celebrating food.

The agroecology track will be focused on equipping participants with practical skills for organizing growing projects (whether a community garden or a farm) and for cultivating food crops. Grounded in the flexible pedagogy developed by peasant-led food sovereignty movements, we will cover systems design, hands-on skills, technical principles, and food systems. The track will be enriched by engagement with the local growing projects and diverse food cultures of south central Indiana.

The cooking track will focus on practices of mass cooking, canning, fermentation, and food preparation experimentation. This track will be responsible for preparing meals at the camp using a variety of different kinds of kitchens which may include off-grid field kitchens, commercial-style, mobile, etc. Participants in the cooking track will alternate cooking, attending cooking workshops, and will have opportunities to attend some workshops from the agroecology track as well.

Deep Food will be taking place on land with uneven trails and many classes will happen outdoors. Please be prepared to be outside in all weather and bring what you need to be comfortable learning outdoors. Participants will be camping and you will need to bring your own gear. There are showers and toilets onsite. If camping is not an option for you there will be a space below for you to note that.

Tuition will indicate the full cost of the intensive: food, board, materials, etc. More information about tuition can be found below.

Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Space is limited and we would like to welcome a variety of people from different backgrounds and with different skillsets and goals. We will reach out via email within two weeks.

Email *

Name: *

Pronouns:

Where do you live/Where are you traveling from?

Will you be able to attend the entire 10 days of camp? *

Yes

If no, which dates would you be able to attend? *

Please list, if any, your dietary restrictions:

There is a possibility for Deep Food to host a workshop centered around harvesting and processing chickens if you are interested in participating in this please note that below:

I am interested in participating

I am not interested in participating

Clear selection

The capacity of the land on which Deep Food will be hosted depends heavily on the ability for the vast majority of attendees to camp for the duration of the intensive. There is an indoor communal sleeping area with limited space for those that are unable to camp. Please note below if you are unable to camp and what, if any, specific accommodations you may need:

Exact tuition costs are still in flux but we currently estimate the per participant cost to total about $400. We are hoping to be able to provide funding for those who the tuition costs are prohibitive. Please note below if you will be:

Unable to pay full tuition, requesting sliding scale tuition costs

Able to pay full $400 tuition costs

Able to pay full $400 tuition costs and to contribute further financially to Deep Food collective costs

Clear selection

Which track would you like to be considered for? *

Agro-ecology

Mass Cooking

Mass Cooking Applicant Question Only:

Describe your degree of experience/comfortability with cooking food for large (20+) groups of people? If you don't have any experience in this (that's great!) what makes you excited about learning these skills?

Mass Cooking Applicant Question Only:

What skills would you like to walk away with from this experience? Is there an area of food preparation/mass cooking that you would like to focus on during our time together?

Mass Cooking Applicant Question Only:

Please tell us about your best experience with a communal meal (could be a family meal, festival, barbecue, action camp meal, etc). Feel free to make this experience up if your real-life communal meals have not been satisfying.

Mass Cooking Applicant Question Only:

Are there dreams/goals/projects that you are cultivating where you are coming from that you would like to contribute the skills learned at Deep Food to?

Mass Cooking Applicant Question Only:

We are actively looking for participants to lead workshops on cooking techniques, field kitchen setups, food preservation, food as medicine, etc. Are you interested in leading a workshop?

If so, please explain:

Mass Cooking Applicant Question Only:

What does the phrase “Deep Food” evoke for you, and why did you start filling out this form?