Why Real Team Building Rarely Looks Like Competition

Most activities sold as “team building” are built on competition. Races, challenges, scoreboards and winners are designed to energise groups quickly, but they often miss the deeper work teams actually need. Competition creates pressure. It reinforces hierarchy. It rewards the loudest voices and sidelines the quieter ones. Someone wins, someone loses, and the group returns […]

wickedfood on May 31, 2026

Preserving workshop

Preserving to us at Wickedfood Earth Country cooking School is all about locking all that seasonal goodness up in a bottle to enjoy at a later date. Wickedfood Earth Farm has become synonymous with top quality preserves. Our food gardens and orchards are planted with a wide variety of heirloom vegetables and herbs, and the extensive […]

wickedfood on November 4, 2025
Featured Western Cape Pork Charcuterie Workshops

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Newsletter June 2017

Hello fellow cook, Welcome to our June newsletter for Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School. Our first winter charcuterie workshop on 14 May, was fully subscribed....

/ June 24, 2017

Newsletter April 2017

Hello fellow cook, Welcome to our April newsletter. Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School has some great food events planned leading into autumn, especially for those...

/ April 4, 2017

Newsletter March 2017

Hello fellow cook, Welcome to our March newsletter. Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School has some great food events planned for the next two months especially...

/ March 9, 2017

Newsletter July 2016

Brent Owens, 2014 Australia Master Chef winner, and Mike on set in Wickedfood Earth Farm’s herb garden, talking about the fantastic flavour of organically grown...

/ July 7, 2016

Newsletter June 2016

Things are never quiet on the farm. During May Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School ran an extremely successful Charcuterie workshop.  We have had so much...

/ June 6, 2016