FIRE CIDER BRIGADE
HotLanta Fire Cider Brigade
Our Hotlanta Fire Cider Brigade is a team of volunteers who make and distribute gallons of Fire Cider each month to provide wellness support for our friends on the street in and around Atlanta, GA.
Fire Cider is a spicy, warming vinegar remedy made with kitchen herbs and spices. It’s simple to make and a fantastic all around healing remedy. We offer seasonal Medicine Making Workshops where we create these fiery batches as a community. This means there is extra healing energy in every batch.
We currently make and distribute two seasonal versions– in the winter we share Elderberry Fire Cider with extra immune supportive herbs and in the summer we share Fire Cider Heart Tonic with an emphasis on cardio-vascular and antioxidant herbs.
Looking to join us at our next workshop? Please visit the Events page for more details. If you have any questions, please be in contact with our Fire Cider Brigade Coordinator, Keri Tope at FireCiderBrigade@gmail.com.
About Fire Cider
Fire Cider is a vinegar-based wellness shot that is easy to make with a spicy-sour kick to make your tastebuds soar. Herbalista Lorna first learned to make Fire Cider from the teachings of Rosemary Gladstar, who popularized it through her many books and classes.
Here’s what Rosemary says about this wonderful elixir:
“Fire Cider is a popular traditional herbal remedy freely shared, made, produced and sold by hundreds of herbalists across the world. The remedy has taken on many different amendments over time, somewhat like chicken soup. Many people have their favorite version, but the base consists of fresh garlic, onions, ginger, horseradish and chili peppers that sit in vinegar for the desired amount of time, are strained, and then a bit of something sweet is usually added at the end. The remedy is used to help warm up the body, and generally acts a stimulant and antimicrobial used during cold and flu season.”
Learn more about the story of Fire Cider and its role in the fight to protect herbal medicine and herbal knowledge, keeping it in the hands of the people. www.freefirecider.com
Safe, effective, easy to make and use, Fire Cider is kitchen medicine at its finest. One this page we offer the tools for you to begin to make spicy batches of your own!
Making Fire Cider
Fire Cider Making Video
Fire Cider is an easy to make kitchen remedy. Spicy herbs, such as garlic and ginger, are steeped in Apple Cider Vinegar for a few weeks and presto, you have a deliciously healing, alcohol-free remedy that the whole family can enjoy.
In this video, Lorna demonstrates making a batch of the Elderberry Fire Cider. Please use the recipe worksheet below to follow along.
Then give our Heart Tonic version of Fire Cider a try, made with delicious pomegranate, hibiscus, and hawthorne berries. This is the version we serve in the summertime. It’s still got a kick but also protects the heart, so important in that Atlanta heat.
Elderberry Fire Cider Recipe
ELDERBERRY FIRE CIDER WORKSHEETElderberry Fire Cider Recipe
Elderberry Fire Cider WorksheetHeart Tonic Fire Cider Recipe
Heart Tonic Fire Cider WorksheetStart A Brigade
Looking to start a Brigade of your own? Fire Cider is such a wonderful thing to come together as a community, making a simple kitchen medicine together, putting all that love into every batch. Having an active Brigade in your town also means that when challenging times are upon us, we are ready to meet them.
Though Herbalistsa had been offering Fire Cider Making Workshops for many years, it was under the duress of the pandemic when the Hotlanta Fire Cider Brigade officially came together. We were looking for ways to provide some extra support for those living on the streets and began producing hundreds of HerbCare Packs for distribution. That meant we needed A LOT more fire cider than we could produce on our own.
At the start, Herbalista crew was joined by community members who had previously attended our Solidarity Medicine Making Workshops and knew how to make batches of Fire Cider. They would prepare the fire cider in their homes, using our solidarity medicine making worksheet and then drop their batches off to us at HQ. After they had steeped, we could send them out to other crew members who would press, bottle and label them for distribution around Atlanta. You can see our Brigade Manual for examples of how we did all of that.
But finally, in 2022, when we felt comfortable gathering together in larger groups, we were able to once again work together as a community to make the Fire Cider. And this is the best way to make and bottle the medicine – together.
We can’t wait to hear the story of your Brigade. Here are some tools to get you started, including recipes, a Fire Cider Making Workshop Outline, and the original Brigade Manual.
Upcoming Workshops
We hope you can join us at an upcoming Brigade Workshop, where we gather as a community to make beautiful, spicy, sweet medicine together.
We have around 6 workshops a year, as we make, press, and bottle gallons of Fire Cider to share with the Atlanta community. Each year we make over 15 gallons of this healing remedy, supporting the health of folks in need.
These workshops are FREE! Please visit the event page for all the details about our upcoming workshops and registration links.
Next Workshop: April 12, 2025.
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