BEREA —
Festivalgoers began setting up camp Thursday for the four-day Whippoorwill Festival at HomeGrown Hideaways, a farm on Floyds Branch Road owned by Jessa and Nathan Turner.
The Whippoorwill Festival enters its second year with more than 60 workshops.
The event celebrates “our Appalachian heritage and traditions,” said organizer Dave Cooper, while teaching “earth-friendly and sustainable living skills in a joyful and healthy atmosphere.
Thursday, Stephanie Clark and Adam Walker, owner of Berea Coffee & Tea, presented a workshop called “Bread Baking on an Open Fire.”
Clark created a fire brick bread oven using salvaged bricks from the old Berea College kiln. The night before, she started a fire inside the oven and heated the bricks to over 900 degrees. After removing the fire and ash, the bricks remain hot enough to cook a variety of foods.
Using a simple recipe of flour, olive oil, salt, yeast and water, Clark and Walker made a variety of bread products to feed those gathered around the campfire and brick oven. Using corn meal ground fresh at the college, they made tortillas too.
Clark once used a similar brick oven in her back yard to cook a pork shoulder overnight. She calls it a “caveman slow cooker.”
“This festival is more broad than just earth skills,” said Zachary Danneman, a Berea College graduate and festival volunteer. “Its about simple living and learning to use materials at-hand.”
Danneman said the festival is “inspired by our ancestors, who could do everything for themselves and rocked it.”
Faye Adams-Eaton and Jacob Mudd drove from Grayson County and set up camp for the entire festival.
Adams-Eaton is especially excited about learning to make her own sauerkraut in the “Fermenting Kim Che and Sauerkraut” class, she said
“My goal is to make the perfect Reuben sandwich,” she said.
It also is helpful to see do-it-yourself projects by like-minded individuals, she said. “It’s quite inspiring.”
Many of the skills and practices taught at the workshops could be easily researched on the internet, Mudd said, but it is different when you can have a hands-on experience.
The festival also provides a good environment to ask questions, he said.
Other classes include “Humanure and Composting Toilets,” “Making Cool Stuff out of Junk” and “How to Survive Without a Salary.”
A four-day adult pass included three home-cooked meals per day, workshops, tent camping, guest speakers, as well as nighttime campfires, old-time mountain music, dancing and story-telling.
For details visit www.whippoorwillfest.com.
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Adam Walker, owner of Berea Coffee & Tea, rolls out dough Thursday to cook in a brick oven during a bread baking class taught by Stephanie Clark. Crystal Wylie/The Register
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Stephanie Clark and Zachary Danneman wait for bread to finish cooking in a brick oven during a workshop Thursday. The oven is constructed with approximately 60 bricks salvaged from an old Berea College kiln. Crystal Wylie/The Register
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Used CDs are hung to protect these plants at HomeGrown Hideaways. The reflection from the CDs keep birds away. Crystal Wylie/The Register
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From left, Faye Adams-Eaton and Jacob Mudd from Grayson County relax in hammocks underneath a shelter at HomeGrown Hideaways. Festival-goers gather for old-time mountain music, dancing and story-telling in the evenings. Crystal Wylie/The Register
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Festivalgoers began setting up camp Thursday for the four-day Whippoorwill Festival at HomeGrown Hideaways. Crystal Wylie/The Register
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