Knowledge Share Description

Miso has been a Japanese staple food for centuries.  Miso is made using Koji, Aspergillus Oryze, which is also used to create other important traditional Japanese foods such as soy sauce, mirin, and sake. In this knowledge share, we will explore the intimate dialogue we can create with Koji, this sacred living mold that has been protected and handed down over generations from our ancestors. Fumiha will introduce ways to use Koji in everyday life and teach how to make miso with Koji at home. Resource package is available if you would like to make miso alongside the knowledge share.

Resource Package

Resource Package includes the materials to make a 16oz jar of miso:

• Large-mouth 16 oz jar

• Soybeans

• Koji, Salt

• Kombu seaweed

• Re-usable Beeswax wrap

• Fermentation glass weight.

*Miso needs to ferment for 6 months.

Knowledge Share Includes

• Brief history of Koji and Miso

• Introduction on how Koji is made

• Ways to incorporate Koji in everyday life

• Demonstration of preparations and steps to make miso

• Tips on making miso soup

• Recipes using miso

• Handouts

Exchange

$35 knowledge share

$75 knowledge share + resource package

$100 reparations (knowledge share + resource package. If you have financial abundance, this is our our pay-it-forward option to fund our scholarships and work redistributing resources to Black and Indigenous Land Projects)

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject MISO. Scholarships do not include resource package.

Access

*ASR Captioning provided 

*Spanish interpretation available (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

4-7pm EST

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days

Facilitator

Born and raised in Japan, Indonesia and Singapore, Fumiha Tanaka is a clinical herbalist, Reiki practitioner, and an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is here to tend to and work with the Mama Earth and guide and realign the sense of wholeness within each person. Fumiha also applies flower essences, dream healing, and other energy healing modalities in her practice to reconnect individuals with their inner spirit. Currently she is studying the way of the medicine women through shamanism. Fumiha is constantly in awe with what she learns from plants and enjoys connecting with their spirit thorough drawing and writing.