Teotitlán Weaving & Natural Dyes

Date: Weds, Nov 26 /Schedule: 9am-3pm

Spaces available: 6/Cost per person: $155 USD/2,900 MXN

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Visit to a regional market

• Breakfast at the market of local delicacies like chotolate atole, tamales, memelas, and tepache

• Hands on class with members of the Vida Nueva women’s cooperative learning how they process wool, use natural dyes, weave, and use Zapotec design

• A chance to dye our own garments (feel free to bring your own); each participant will be provided 2 cloth napkins in the cost of the experience

• Lunch prepared by a cocinera tradicional accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women's cooperative annual project

Teotitlán Traditional Cooking Class:

Mole Negro with Turkey

Join us in celebrating Turkey day in Oaxaca by preparing one of the most traditional dishes served at weddings in the region-mole negro con guajalote (black mole with turkey). To prepare this special dish we will learn to toast our indgredients on the comal to perfection, grind our mole on our metate, and use free range turkey raised by our hosts.

Date: Thurs, Nov 27 /Schedule: 9am-6pm

Spaces available: 6/Cost per person: $185 USD/3,475 MXN

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable transportation round trip from Oaxaca city (40 minutes each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Visit to regional market

• Teotitlán style breakfast of fresh fruit, baked goods, and homemade hot chocolate at the market

• Cooking class of black mole with turkey with a cocinera tradicional utilizing heirloom corn grown on site and traditional tools such as the comal and metate

• Enjoying the lunch that we cook accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

• Rug weaving and natural dye demonstration

• Visit a beeswax candle maker´s workshop

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women's cooperative annual project
  

Date: Fri, Nov 28/Schedule: 9am-5pm

Spaces available: 6/Cost per person: $165 USD/3,100 MXN

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable and safe transportation round trip from Oaxaca City (1 hour each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Breakfast en route of our favorite tamales from a thrid generation tamal maker and the season´s freshest fruit

• Visit to the agave garden and palenque of our community partners at Real Minero mezcal

• Tour of Proyecto LAM, an agave garden and nursery where we will learn about the agaves and wood used in mezcal production as well as medicinal herbs used for healing mezcals. The Angeles Carreño family has been making mezcal since 1898 and has a sustainability plan that carries them through the next 100 years of their family´s production. Working with 22 diferent types of agaves, we will learn about their work in conserving agaves that are native to Oaxaca, their commitment to organic practices and agroforestry, as well as the creation of the world´s first community agave seed bank.

• Tour of the Real Minero palenque, where the family produces small batch mezcal using traditional methods including natural fermentaion. We learn about the unique techniques used in Santa Catarina Minas such as distilling in double clay pot stills

• Sit down tasting of Minero mezcal made on site. Each person will get to try 4 unique mezcals, learning how to taste and identify a traditional mezcal

• A chance to purchase mezcal directly from Real Minero (price not included), many batches which are only available for purchase in Mexico. Our help packing it for travel

• Lunch at Ocotlán market of regional dishes such as mole, empanadas de amarillo, tejate, and enchiladas

• Tour of the Ocotlán weekly Friday market. Some historians estimate that this weekly market has been happening in this town for the last 5,000-7,000 years. Today the weekly market continues to be an important economic and cultural hub of the Ocotlan valley. Many vendors come from the surrounding areas only on Fridays to sell organic vegetables, native chilies, aguamiel, smoked fish from the coast, and handmade crafts such as embroidered blouses, clay chilimoleras, and rope made of agave fibers. Sample of local delicacies such as boiled camotes with local honey and jamoncillo, a coconut and brown sugar dessert

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to Biblioteca El Rosario

Date: Sun, Nov 30/Schedule: 9am-6pm

Spaces available: 6/Cost per person: $185 USD/3,475 MXN

Includes:

• Personalized guide and translation (Spanish/English)

• Comfortable round trip transportation from Oaxaca city (45 minutes each way). Pick up and drop off from your hotel or vacation rental (Centro, Jalatlaco, Xochimilico, Reforma, San Felipe)

• Guided visit to the día de plaza in Tlacolula where vendors come from all over the state to sell produce, coffee, bread, chocolate, honey, chilies and other local delicacies; 

• Breakfast of local dishes at the market such as memelas and goat barbacoa

• Cooking class of regional dishes with a cocinera tradicional utilizing 4 types of heirloom corn grown on site and traditional tools such as the comal and metate

• Enjoying the lunch that we cook accompanied by our selection of traditional mezcal

• Weaving and natural dye demonstration

• Drinking water and light snacks

• Donation to women's cooperative annual project