Half Day Cooking Class at Organic Farm
Overview
This authentic, hands on 'farm to table' cooking class in Chiang Mai allows you to learn the basics of organic cooking. You get an insight into how a Thai family with many years of experience creates a sufficient and independent farm and learn how to cook some classic Thai dishes including curries, soups, noodle dishes and desserts at one of the oldest cooking schools in Chiang Mai.
This half day cooking class in Chiang Mai is perfect for those short on time but interested in learning the basics of Thai cuisine. After visiting a local market to see some of the staples used in Thai cooking, you will then visit the organic farm for a deeper insight into various herbs and spices before the cooking begins! Each person has their own cooking station and you can choose your own individual menu based on your favourite Thai food and learn such skills as creating your own curry paste from scratch using a pestle and mortar, creating a tasty Thai soup or a classic dessert.
Choose from a morning cooking class or evening cooking class with everything including. As a souvenir of your half day cooking class at the organic farm, you will have a recipe book to take home and hopefully continue cooking Thai food!
Included/Excluded
- Visit the main local Thai market out of the city center
- Learn about herbs and spices at an organic farm
- Pound and make a curry paste from scratch
- Choose and make one curry paste, one curry, one soup, noodle dish and sweet dessert
- Full color recipe book with photo instructions
- Lemongrass tea and drinking water, all ingredients
- Transportation within city limits
Tour Plan
08.00am - 08.30am - Pick Up
You will be picked up by air conditioned transportation within city limits
09.00am - Visit Local Market
Learn about some of the basic ingredients that make Thai food so delicious
10.30am - Visit organic farm
Visit the owners organic farm and get a deeper insight into some herbs and spices grown on site
11.00am - Begin the cooking!
Learn how to make your own curry paste, soup and / or dessert
13.00pm - Lunchtime
You can enjoy the fruits of your labor and eat your creation
14.00pm - Program Wrap Up
After concluding the cooking class we will head back to the city and drop you off
Additional Information
Organic Farming
During your day at the organic farm, you will be shown around the amazing area and introduced to the wonderful spices and herbs used in Thai cooking. Sawat, the owner and founder of Thai Farm Cooking School grew up in a family of rice farms and has deep knowledge about using nature only to protect his crops and vegetables and knows the value of not using any chemicals. He knows what trees to grow where in order to keep a particular crop free of insects and you will learn about these tips during the walk in the farm. Everything is 100% organic because the school values the importance of protecting the environment as well as peoples health and want to pass on the message.
Modern chemical dependent farming has huge ecological costs, is bad for the health of the farmer and his family and affects the health of the people who eat the food. And most importantly the stuff does not work! Every year the pests grow resistant to the pesticides and the soil fertility falls.
In former times, Thai people didn’t use pesticides. They grew by nature, what makes the vegetables not only more healthy but also more tasty. Organic products contain higher level of vitamin C, protein and other minerals and have less water and less artificial chemicals.
Thai people could control the insects by growing many different herbs mixed together. This is what we do at our farm, and the reason why we have established our cooking school, to teach you about REAL Thai farming like farmers did before!
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