Latvija: ZAUBE WILD FOOD FESTIVAL 2024

Eva Koljera | 2024.09.06

For the eighth time, Zaube Wild Food Festival will gather visitors on 7 September 2024 to celebrate the knowledge of nature’s bounty passed down through generations with chefs and hostesses, hunters and fishermen, nature connoisseurs and artisans. This year’s theme is “Mushroom Season”. It has been chosen in honor of the inclusion of the mushroom tradition in the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The picking and use of mushrooms is a long-established tradition in Latvia, which is still alive today. The main use of mushrooms is for human consumption. Almost every family has its recipe for mushroom sauce, soup, or mushroom chops. They can be salted, pickled, marinated, dried, boiled and baked. It is an essential part of our culinary heritage.

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This year’s festival programme has been created in cooperation with the Latvian Mycological Society. It will offer a wide range of mushroom knowledge – an exhibition “Edible and inedible mushrooms”, cooking masterclasses and demonstrations, mushroom workshops, environmental education activities, competitions, and lectures. You can learn not only about the nutritional and medicinal uses of mushrooms, but also about creative uses in crafts and household chores, and about the importance of mushrooms in nature.

As in other years, the festival program will be complemented by traditional game cooking demonstrations by Zaubes hunters and fishermen, new meetings with Vidzeme craftsmen in creative workshops, local goods markets, and musical interludes.

Entrance is free.

Event programme*
‘ZAUBE WILD FOOD FESTIVAL 2024 – “MUSHROOM SEASON”‘
Time: 7 September 2024, from 11:00.
PREPARATION WORKSHOPS and DEMONSTRATIONS
Cooking masterclasses by Chef Ingmar Ladig
Cooking masterclasses by Chef Kristaps Reimāns
Cooking masterclasses by Latvian hostess Mara Zemdega
Laura Grēviņa’s “School for Little Cooks”
Outdoor cooking demonstrations of Vidzeme Technology and Design Technical School

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
“VIENKOČI” Natures jewelry workshop

CLAY workshop – clay vessel making with ceramist Liene Zipa
Wooden banners, bark decorations, and braiding workshop with craftswoman Ginta Kalniņa
Natural, fresh cosmetics workshop with Laura Rose, talk-lecture “It’s easy to be beautiful (yes)”

Felting workshop
Gingerbread decorating workshop

OPEN-AIR LECTURES OF THE LATVIAN MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Maija Pohodņeva “Mushrooms for health and taste”
Audra Spārīte Jansone “Toxic mushrooms and their properties”
Diāna Meiere “Truffles – collection and preparation”
“Spore” mushroom film tent and mushroom growing in bags

MUSHROOM WORKSHOPS/ LATVIAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY
Yarn dyeing with mushrooms
Mushroom butter
Mushroom cosmetics
Mushroom paper
Mushroom basket weaving

COMPETITION
The most interesting dish – “Mushroom in a jar” for winter. Various competitions with the chance to win prizes will take place throughout the day. Cooperation with the seniors’ organisation “Sidrabozols”

EXHIBITION
“EATABLE AND UNEATABLE MUSHROOM” – consultations with specialists, children’s activity corner

MUSIC AT THE ZAUBES OAK TREE
Singing with the Zaubes Mixed Choir
Dancing with the Madona brass band

GREEN MARKET
Delicacies, drinks and food from local producers and craftsmen.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Natures Conservation Agency activities “Natural meadow products”

ACTIVITIES
Rupuči boats on the lake, archery, youth activities, radio-controlled car track
Various wild meats will be offered by the local “Zaube” hunters’ club