Work with me on your culinary + creative projects through the end of the year

I typically share current course offerings and private session availability in each week’s newsletter as they come up, but after a few requests to bundle it all in one place, I’ve pulled together this overview of all my fall and winter offerings through the end of the year.

Paid subscribers, please scroll to the bottom of this email, where you’ll find a reminder of your discount code and a special discounted booking link for private sessions.

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Events and live (in person or virtual) workshops

I’ll come to your home or your office, or you can join me online, for private fermentation classes, wellness programs (as in mindfulness, cooking, etc.), writing workshops, ‘how to build a sustainable creative practice’-focused workshops, or guided retreats. More on retreats below!

For 1-1 or small group sessions (corporate wellness events, a group of friends taking a class together in your kitchen, etc.):

See a list of my ready-to-go culinary + creative events here

And see a list of my holistic creative support offerings here, with testimonials and ideas for events

The prices for these vary and depend on location (Zoom is cheaper than in person), supplies, prep time, etc.

Email me at julia@root-kitchens.com to book!

Custom-built writing and creative retreats

I love, LOVE leading writing retreats and retreats for creative people in general. The more interdisciplinary and exploratory the better.

I design my own private residencies and retreats (this is how I wrote the bulk of my dissertation in 6 months), and in recent years, I’ve started designing them for others.

I can join you in person, if you wish, but for a more affordable option, pull together some friends, book a cabin or beach house or drag some chairs into your living room.

I’ll build a custom itinerary for you, building in unstructured creative time alongside whatever focus areas or goals you’ve set. For example:

Do you want to use your retreat to deepen your connection to nature AND have time to write?
Or do you want to build in very structured, goal-driven days with accountability at the start at end?
Do you want to do a food writing-focused residency, but getting away to travel for a week isn’t practical?
Or something else?

Included are any coaching materials, journaling prompts, or other ‘stuff’, and I can also jump in virtually for live sessions if you need.

These retreat itineraries start at $500 ($400 for paid subscribers and Mycelia Coven members), and can cover one day or multiple days.

Email me (julia@root-kitchens.com) to book!

Culinary classes

While I am taking a few more bookings for private culinary classes, food writing workshops, etc. through the end of the year (see above) I also have a whole catalog of self-paced classes on fermentation, sustainable food, food writing, and various other food-related topics through the Culinary Curiosity School.

Each class above $10 is offered at 3 price tiers so you can pick the one that works for your budget.

Some class topics include:

A course on sensory-driven and curious food writing (part play, part writing practice-focused skill building)
Reconnecting to play and fun in the kitchen
Connecting to place more deeply through food
A course on reducing food waste that goes beyond techniques to play with mindset and an expansive sense of wealth (yes, your skills, and ability to engage your resources fully are part of your wealth!)
Preserving family recipes, papers, and other documents: Using my background in libraries to help you preserve you + your folks’ history.
A skills and ideas lab for your next fermentation business, book, or other creative project.

Plus guided meditations and preorders are open for Finding your Food Story, a deep dive live, virtual workshop taking place next year.

Not up on the site yet: A course on using food preservation to support self- and community resilience. Please reach out if you want the link when it’s ready!

Creative support and workshops for writers and beyond

I’m focusing the latter part of the year on small group spaces and on 1:1 support sessions.

1:1 writing + creative support sessions

These private sessions last anywhere from 30 minutes to a full day, and are completely customized to your needs and goals.

Mine are unique because they blend together all the different modalities of work I’ve trained in, so you’re getting practical tips for working as a creative professional, balancing creative + other work, plus some of the more energetic and ritual elements that are a massive support to creatives but that often get brushed to the side when we’re overwhelmed.

For the next week only, I’m offering everyone discounted 2-hour sessions: Either a session that blends energy work + creative coaching, or a session that’s purely skill building and/or project-focused (think: Mapping out your next book proposal).

You can book these now for dates this or next month, just look for the two-hour Samhain special in my calendar. As a reminder, the price for 2-hour sessions goes up for any bookings made after October 31st.

Sessions take place on Zoom: Please contact me to discuss in-person options if that’s your preference.

Paid subscribers, scroll down for your discounted link for 1-hour sessions (email me if you want to schedule a longer session).

Book a time with me here

Self-paced workshops

I also have a whole catalog of self-paced workshops, including:

Finding clarity during career and life transitions so you can rediscover (or locate) your creative stride.
Creating a container for your next book or other big creative project.
Finding, and working with, your own unique creative rhythms.
Simple practices for building pleasure back into your creative work (this isn’t just a nice to have, optional thing: Pleasurable work is work that is done with greater ease and less burnout, making you more productive and making the final results much better).
Boundary setting for creatives

I’m completely redesigning my multi-month immersion programs for next year: More details on that soon.

In the meantime, before I retire this version of Bloom, my 8-week program for building a lifelong writing practice, I’m offering one more round that’s entirely asynchronous: So if you’ve been wanting to join but the meetings aren’t working for you, this is a more affordable option.

You’ll receive all the same Bloom materials, plus weekly themes emailed to you over the course of 8 weeks.

$125 for paid subscribers and $175 for everyone else.

Email me (julia@root-kitchens.com) if you want to sign up!

Thanks as always for your support and for letting me be a small part of your culinary + creative worlds! Any questions, just ask. I’m looking forward to working with you!