Healing Food: A Table in the Garden at Şifa Köyü

Some days, when the workshop ends, nobody wants to get up. On those days we carry the table out into the garden. Whatever was picked from the field that morning comes to the table: tomatoes, peppers, greens, the farm’s olive oil and warm bread. I call this healing food.

What is healing food?

For me healing food is not a recipe, it is a way of looking at things. Taking a vegetable whose soil has never seen chemicals, whose seed has been kept on this land for generations, picked in its own season, and cooking it simply. The less there is on the plate, the more you taste. And eating together; talking at the table, laughing, slowing down.

At Şifa Köyü we grow with heirloom seeds, without chemical fertiliser or pesticides. The tomatoes smell the way they did in my childhood; everyone who sits at the table notices it with the first bite.

What is on the table?

• Seasonal vegetables grown from heirloom seed, freshly picked
• Şifa Köyü olive oil, tomato paste and pickles
• Teas brewed with linden, sage and mint from the garden
• Sugar-free, natural sweets; most often fruit and grape molasses

You can set the same table

If you cannot come to Şile, you can set the same table at home. Şifa Köyü products can be ordered from our shop: olive oil, tomato paste, pickles, dried vegetables and herbal teas. All of them are prepared at the farm, with the same care.

On workshop days you are invited to the table in the garden too. After the meal we walk around the farm, and whoever wants to sows seeds in the greenhouse. Come, let us eat together.

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