766: Kat Savage on The Magic of Mocktails

Finding fun in the mantra ‘Food is medicine’

In This Podcast: Kat Savage wildcraft harvests many plants from the wild around her home in Asheville, North Carolina and uses fermenting to bring out the best flavors and herbal impacts. She has spent her lifetime observing nature and studying permaculture to bring the magic of local flora to her work. 

Kat is a former clinical herbalist, who lived in a permaculture community for almost a decade.  She loves to "yarden" with medicinal herbs, ‘weeds’, berries, and fruit trees at home, where she forages for her creations for delicious mocktails and cocktails focusing on local, organic, and sustainable.  

Her non-alcoholic aperitif inspired bitters are blended with the elements of herbalism in mind, and continue an historical tradition of both shrubs and bitters, as a way to preserve the bounty of the season.  She loves offering both mocktail and cocktail options and finds that many customers are excited about mocktails these days. 12 Bones Brewing recently collaborated with her for an "on-tap mocktail" for "Dry January."  Her brand, SAVOR, is about dropping in and savoring the moment with a tasty beverage, that is crafted from years of focus on "food as medicine" as an herbalist. 

Visit www.urbanfarm.org/SavorShrub for the show notes and links on this episode!

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