Cultural Consulting / Storytelling /
Experiencial Development
Below are examples of cultural consulting and programming developed by Lori. If you are interested in having programming developed for your group, simply reach out to her at the email below.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story can make all the difference.
Gros Morne Institute of Sustainable Tourism
Nature’s Table is a collaborative online learning program that will explore the guiding principles and practices for developing unique culinary experiences in nature. Participants will engage with one another in a peer to peer sharing process to evaluate and provide feedback on concepts. The program will be using a unique approach in online learning with collaborative and interactive experiences each week that will be the main jumping off point for each session’s discussions.
Earth Rhythms
The sessions provided to Earth Rhythms' are part of a Canadian Experiential Tourism Collaborative, in which bringing together a numerous practitioners, tourism operators, experience partners, DMO champions and others to share insights into experience development, regenerative tourism, collaboration, storytelling, and community engagement to provide different ways to engage visitors in various Canadian destinations that result in tourism being a force for good.
Qalipu First Nations
These sessions include multiple topics related to storytelling through, Wild Game Cookery, Fermentation, Foraging & Preservation including:
Rabbits: skinning, butchery, cooking & preservation methods including corning, safe bottling techniques and dishes to prepare with each
Ptarmigan: plucking, skinning, butchery, marinating
Moose: A deep discussion on particular cuts to have butchered and the cooking methods and recipes to use with each. Take notes, you may be butchering differently after this.
Building your Wildcrafted Pantry: The wild foraged botanicals we used & how to identify them, how to store them, how to use them, respectable harvesting, smoking with wild woods, harvestable, easy identifiable, mushrooms, homemade wild vinegars, wild yeast cultivation for fire roasted breadmaking.
Client : Fogo Island Inn
Forage the Four Corners
Spend the afternoon on the traditional berry grounds of this very special Sub-Arctic Landscape that have shaped the people we are in this province. Learn the berries and the traditions that have sustained a people and sparked the interest of chefs from around the world. Walk the Land and explore the deep-rooted connection to the land and sea that generations before us lived on and generations to come will re-imagine. Our session includes a light snack on the berry grounds and a cuppa wild tea that we will forage for ourselves.
Seashore Forage - Taste the Tide
Dive deep into the sea-life and kelps that fill the splash zone of the great North Atlantic off Fogo Island. Explore the smells, tastes and the feel of the ocean floor beneath your feet. This seashore forage is for young and old with something special for everyone to engage all your senses. Your multi-sensory experience unlike anything you have experienced. Spend the morning searching for all the colorful starfish, feel a sea snail across your palm and learn how the urchin crawls across the ocean floor. This program has special built in elements for children 2 and up.
EAT IT WILD
Explore the wild foods of the island cooked over a traditional open fire boil-up. This tradition has been enjoyed for generations and we want to share it with you. Your multi-course meal will dive deep into the wild foraged landscape with flavors you have very likely never tasted before. Delicacies from the land and sea will shape your palate and your plate. Enjoy an unforgettable meal on one of the Four Corners of the Earth and take home some special flavors so that you can taste a little bit of Fogo Island when you return home.
Client: Becoming an Outdoors Woman
Fur & Feathers
This instructional workshop covers the cleaning (skinning & plucking), de-boning, proper handling, storage and aging of ducks and rabbits. We will be building a tripod set-up over an open fire and preparing for a cast iron pot cook-up with the game we have prepared. I believe these are invaluable woods & bushcraft skills that will arm you with the knowledge to put a very healthy and sustainable hunted food on your plate.
Early Spring Forage
This this an informative edible hike, take a walk around the wooded areas and coastline to find and identify local wild edibles and learn ways to use them in everyday dishes. This early Spring forage will be discovering several seaweeds species, learning how to pickle, preserve and how to use them in your everyday dishes. We will dive into the beach greens that grow
all along the seashore and into the nearby meadows. Once finished our walk we will gather around and make some edible treats to take home so that you can continue to incorporate what we have learned into your dishes. Some of my favorites include seaweed butter, seaweed salts and bush salts. Learning to preserve your edibles will keep you tasting them year-round. Before ending our session, we will enjoy a light snack and make our own wild tea to enjoy fireside.
Cultural Programing for your company or organization.
“I want to introduce you and your group to Newfoundland & Labrador, where people, place and food culture run strong and deep. A place where we are looking ahead at the wild foods from the land and sea and realizing that they have only begun to scratch the surface of possibilities.” These are custom programs designed to foster creativity into a deeply rooted culture.