Remedies passed down, one household at a time
Long before pharmacies, healing began in the kitchen and the garden. This is a growing collection of home remedies gathered from the cultures that make up our village; each one still trusted, still shared, still made the same way it always has been, and some changing within their diasporas. None-the-less, all worth sharing.
Every culture carries its own quiet pharmacy; a tea for a cold, a paste for a bite, a broth for a bad day. In keeping with Village Eating's mission to celebrate the richness of culinary traditions while promoting healthy, sustainable eating, we ask our community to share the remedies still passed down in their own homes.
Rooted in Tradition
Every remedy here started as practice within tradition — something a grandmother did without explaining why. Collecting them is part of the same work as collecting recipes: keeping culinary knowledge alive before it's lost to a generation that never learned it.
Grown with Purpose
Many of these remedies use the same seasonal, humble ingredients grown at our CultivaLA Farm, fostering the same commitment to local, accessible food that shapes everything else at Village Eating.
Shared as Community
None of this belongs to us, it belongs to the families who trusted us with it. Village Remedies exists to pass that knowledge along the way it was always meant to travel: person to person, table to table.
Cook, eat, share, and thrive as a community. The same spirit that runs through every farm, recipe, and story in this village runs through these remedies too. Know one passed down in your own family? We'd love to add it to the collection. Please reach out through our Contact page to share it.