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Columbine Nutrition

The Happiness Factory

Alongside our workplace wellbeing programmes, we also run community-based workshops that bring people together around food, nature, and shared learning. These sessions are more hands-on and exploratory, blending foraging, cooking, herbalism, nutrition, and plenty of fun.

Designed to be accessible and inclusive, the workshops create space for curiosity, connection, and creativity whether that’s learning to identify seasonal plants, cooking simple nourishing meals, or understanding how everyday herbs and foods support health and resilience. The focus is on building confidence and knowledge in a relaxed, supportive environment.

"Columbine prepared some of the most delicious and nutritious meals that I've ever had! She has a true gift for combining whole food ingredients in the most complimentary way while preserving their inherent flavours and nutritional value. Her ability to create a nutritious, harmonious and incredibly flavourful meal is truly an art."
Kelly at the end of a Silent Retreat.

Perfect for

Getting together with friends, marking the changes in seasons of the land and seasons of your body, learning together. We run community sessions from our bases in Totnes and Newquay. Contact us for more info.

Forage & Cook

Discover the wild foods growing all around you, their medicinal and nutritional uses and turn nature into tasty healthy treats.

Cook & Nourish

Get hands-on in the kitchen, whip up delicious, nourishing meals, and eat what you make!

Gut, Stress & Energy

Boost your mood and energy while learning about your gut and roll your own tasty energy balls.

Community Workshops

Be your Own Happiness Factory

Arrival and Welcome 
Warm welcome, introductions, find a seat.
Overview of the two hour workshop

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Slide led talk – 1 hour
An accessible overview of the fascinating gut microbiome.

You will learn:

The benefits of feeding your good gut bacteria to reap its rewards for your body and maximise your own happiness factory by boosting production of serotonin, GLP-1’s and GABA.
What to add to the daily diet and where to buy it. 

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Making Energy Balls

Energy balls are a delicious, easy to make, gut friendly snack.
Make your own with a personalised twist and take them home with a recipe card. 

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Regroup and Pledge

Focus on main take-aways from the session and make a pledge; a daily change to commit to and build your healthiest microbiome.

Cook & Nourish: the Menopause Edition

Arrival and welcome
Arrive as you are. Tired, curious, hormonal, or hopeful and settle into a supportive, judgement-free space. Have a cup of tea and get ready to be empowered.

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Menopause & Nourishment Foundations
A short, accessible talk on what nourishment really means balancing blood sugar, supporting digestion, hormones, and energy, gut health, inflammation and sleep and why restrictive eating can backfire.

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Hands-On Menopause-Supportive Cooking

Time to share practical tips for bringing this style of cooking into daily life. Together we explore a couple of nourishing dishes designed to support hormone balance, bones, brain, and digestion.

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Communing over food
Enjoy what we’ve prepared and reflect upon what you’ve learned along with ideas to incorporate a more nourishing way to shop, cook and eat into your everyday life.