Abundance at the Edges with Never Faull

seasonal pesto making

Location: TBD

Sat June 13, 11am-3pm, Location TBD

What to expect

In this hands-on workshop, we will explore pesto as an accessible, adaptable, and deeply nourishing food practice. Together we will work with seasonal plants that are often overlooked, discarded, or treated as excess — such as garden weeds, abundant greens, and vegetable tops commonly considered waste — and transform them into vibrant, nutrient-dense medicine food.

Rather than focusing on expensive or hard-to-access ingredients, this class invites participants into a practice of relationship, creativity, and abundance using what is locally available, affordable, and already growing around us. Through tasting, storytelling, and collaborative preparation, we will reflect on what it means to revalue the plants we are taught to ignore and consider how food can support connection to place, reciprocity, and collective nourishment.

Key Learning Goals

(1) participants will learn the foundational components of an adaptable pesto recipe using accessible seasonal ingredients.

(2) participants will identify several commonly overlooked or discarded plants that can be incorporated into nourishing food practices safely and creatively.

(3) participants will explore food preparation as a practice of relationship-building with plants, place, abundance, and collective care.

Never Faull is a queer, trans, disabled, mixed-race community educator and photographer whose work lives at the intersections of grief, nourishment, accessibility, and belonging. Their practice is shaped by a deep love for ordinary acts of care: cooking with seasonal plants, noticing what grows untended, documenting tenderness through photography, and creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, each other, and the more-than-human world. Their teaching is rooted in the belief that care and medicine should be approachable, imperfect, and community-held rather than exclusive or extractive. Through storytelling, seasonal food practices, and plant connection, Nev invites participants to engage with overlooked plants and everyday rituals as sites of remembrance, creativity, and collective resilience.