{"id":152062,"date":"2015-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracious-khorana.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/sydney-australia-slow-living-workshop\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:11:32","slug":"sydney-australia-slow-living-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/2015\/03\/sydney-australia-slow-living-workshop.html","title":{"rendered":"L|M Retreats | Sydney, Australia | Slow-Living Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This has been a long time coming, the first batch of photographs of the Slow Living Workshop<\/a>\u00a0at the historic farmhouse,\u00a0Glenmore House<\/a>, that I taught with Luisa Brimble and Rebekka Seale this past September. An especially huge thank you to Claire\u00a0Dickson-Smith<\/a>, Hetty of Arthur Street Kitchen<\/a>, and The Floury Baker<\/a> for providing us with amazing meals\u2014you worked so hard & everything was just beyond all expectations. Food is the heart of these gatherings, and you ladies made it unforgettable. And a big thanks to\u00a0Stacey Clark<\/a> for her helping hands.<\/p>\n

Rebekka & I\u00a0arrived at a beautiful flat near the sea on our first day. And that\u2019s where we finally met Luisa. When you know someone\u2019s work, it\u2019s easy to forget that you don\u2019t actually know the person. That you can only know a person by meeting them. Luisa in person is earth and effervescence and unmitigated and a confirmation that being a human being is pretty alright. She\u2019s a wonderful person, and a dear friend, and never in my wildest dreams could I imagine how much I\u2019d love her in real life. Lucked out. And that\u2019s pretty much how we felt the entire time we were in Australia.<\/p>\n

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I remember it was blustery & cold and that the waves crashing on the shore were ferocious and frustrating\u2014frustrating because my lens couldn\u2019t get close enough, couldn\u2019t seem to do them justice. Every Australian I met seemed to see fit to apologize for the weather, and I also remember that there didn\u2019t ever seem to be enough time. It was a whirlwind. Nights eating Japanese food with Luisa, mornings picking Stacey up at the airport in a girlish fit, and an afternoon meeting Aaron at Studio Neon for sandwiches. Each moment spiraling into relationships, projects, and friendships that far exceeded any anticipation I could have ever had. We, too soon it seemed, left Sydney for Melbourne where it happened all over again. And that\u2019s a story for the next post about this trip. Something I\u2019m learning about myself as a I travel is that places are, in the end, constellations of people for me. Food, beauty, history. Those can only ever be a bonus. I don\u2019t fall in love with places. I fall in love with people. Over and bloody over again. It\u2019s starting to feel like I\u2019m leaving chunks of my heart like trinkets all over the globe. It hurts. But it\u2019s worth it. I can see the virtue in keeping your heart intact, but in the end, for me, a heart\u2019s made for giving away.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be reconvening with an amazing team this coming April in Byron Bay for a creative retreat. I\u2019ll be hosting & teaching it with Rebekka Seale of Camellia Fiber Co<\/a>., Luisa Brimble<\/a>, and Aaron Teece of Studio Neon<\/a>. And my new Aussie friend (that I incidentally met in Tennessee) Lean of the wonderful blog Lean & Meadow <\/a>will be there lending a helping hand as well. We\u2019re going to be setting up a miniature village of bell tents on the grounds of a cottage with a big garden, and the days will be spent doing everything from foraging to natural fiber dye to weaving to photography and styling and more. And of course plenty of communal meals, lively conversation, and amazing food from Aaron and his Studio Neon team. There are a handful of spots available if you\u2019d like to join us. Tickets are two payments of $1350 AUD ($1040 USD \/ \u20ac960 EUR), and it will be from April 16-20. You can find more information, details, and photos of the property as well as purchase ticketsat Local Milk Retreats now!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This has been a long time coming, the first batch of photographs of the Slow Living Workshop\u00a0at the historic farmhouse,\u00a0Glenmore House, that I taught with Luisa Brimble and Rebekka Seale this past September. An especially huge thank you to Claire\u00a0Dickson-Smith, Hetty of Arthur Street Kitchen, and The Floury Baker for providing us with amazing meals\u2014you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[998,999,226,228,231,1000,24,1001,93,330,237,1002,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}