Build a Solar Food Dryer or Drying Rack
An operational solar dryer or screened drying rack.
Discover workshops, shared meals, practical projects, and other experiences hosted right here.
An operational solar dryer or screened drying rack.
Learn safe fire preparation, tinder, kindling, heat control and a simple camp-cooking method without electricity.
Explore fresh or dried herbs such as mint, lemon balm, chamomile and thyme, then create and taste personal tea blends.
Choose one Thai-, Japanese-, Italian-, Mexican-, Moroccan- or American-inspired plant-based menu, then prepare, cook and share it together with a facilitator.
A seasonal garden-to-pantry experience in which participants pick ripe berries, sort and wash the harvest, process the fruit by crushing, juicing or simmering, and turn it into a finished batch of homemade jam. The workshop follows the fruit from the plant to the labeled jar, teaching how seasonal abundance can be preserved for the months ahead.
Share a hosted plant-based pizza meal cooked in the wood-fired oven with seasonal toppings, a relaxed table and time for conversation.
A hosted social dinner where guests, volunteers and community members meet, share stories and build connections over a homemade meal. It can be organized whenever a group would benefit from an intentional evening together.
Explore the restoration area and food-forest logic while identifying useful trees, wild foods, layers, pollinators, beneficial insects and non-chemical pest relationships.
A completed batch of preserved food.
A single beginning-to-end activity: shell dried corn, grind it into mălai, prepare the fire and cook mămăligă in a ceaun as part of a plant-based Romanian village meal.
Harvest seasonal vegetables and herbs from the Berivoi garden, then turn them into a shared plant-based meal.
A generous, unhurried pancake table with preserves, berries, walnuts, warm apple compote, fruit and tea. The experience is the slow rhythm, shared table and conversation—not merely breakfast service.
Produce harvested at proper maturity and used in a shared meal.
Pick ripe fruit or cultivated berries and learn how varieties, ripeness and preservation choices change through the season.
A closing table timed to the soft evening light, combining food, favorite memories, photographs, gratitude and the realization that strangers have become a community.
Choose how you would like to stay at Advent Center at Berivoi and make activities like this part of your visit.