Welsh Fruit Festival 2026
Into the Raw Fire
Join us for a week-long transformative health event in the stunningly beautiful landscape of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park in North Wales…
Welcome!
Hi I’m Ellen, organiser of the Welsh Fruit Festival.
I’m really glad you’re here :-)
Is this you?
You want to be raw.
You know you should be eating the rainbow.
You want the benefits of eating raw food.
You know heating food destroys nutrients.
You want more energy and mental clarity.
You know heating food produces harmful chemicals.
You want better fitness and exercise tolerance.
You know heating food increases the saturation of fats.
You want clear skin and to sleep like a baby.
You know heating food denatures proteins.
You want to lose fat and gain muscle.
You know five portions a day isn’t enough.
You want to live a long and active life.
You want and know all these things…
But you can’t do it.
You don’t (really) want to do it.
Everything in you resists what you know is right.
You’ve tried and tried but you keep falling off the raw wagon.
You’ve convinced yourself that high-raw is good enough (then eaten the biscuits).
You’ve told yourself your social life is more important than your health.
You’ve compromised your future for your present.
You’ve compromised yourself for others.
You’ve compromised others for yourself.
If this is you…
has been you…
will be you…
could be you again…
Into the Raw Fire
is for you.
Together
we will be taking a deep dive
into the physical,
emotional
and spiritual
landscapes of raw.
We will be learning about
and creating
the three things you really need
to go raw
and stay raw
forever…
Community
Creativity
Embodiment
We will be moving
with our pleasure and our pain.
We will be immersing ourselves
in nature and place.
We will walk, hike, dance, sing and swim.
We will write, draw, paint and make.
We will share food together.
We will share stories together.
We will enter the Raw Fire…
What does fire mean to you as a raw vegan, high-raw vegan or raw-curious person in the world?
What emotions and processes are associated with letting go of the idea and practice of cooking? How can we re-imagine fire as a generative force in our lives without the mythology of the caveman?
How can we re-invent our social and cultural heritage in the absence of frying, roasting and baking? What new rituals will emerge from our sacred time together?
At the Welsh Fruit Festival 2026 we will be focusing our attention on fire as both reality and metaphor: as a life-giving source of warmth and as a symbol of the energy and passion that arises when we release our attachments to harmful and denervating cooked foods.
We will journey into the fiery heart of raw as we shed old skins and simultaneously both honour and turn away from habits and ways of being in the world that have served us and no longer serve us.
We will move with renewed clarity, vision and purpose towards a shared future filled with hope and free from the fear of premature death and of the debilitating diet-related diseases that plague our modern society.
We will write, dance, paint, play, pray, meditate, gather around the table, gather around the camp-fire, climb to the top of the mountain, sing, and remember who we were and who we will become.
We will practice gratitude and kindness towards those versions of our selves that were doing their best with what they knew at the time.
And we will let them go.
Are you ready?
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‘fire is a symbol of transformation and creativity…’
‘Fire, to me personally means several things that combine beautifully together. Fire is a symbol of transformation and creativity, a reminder to stay in touch with worldly elements, nature, ourselves, our passions and notice our own ego.
I love the idea of fire being a generative force positively that is not associated with cooking but as a lighting of our passion and love in our heart spaces.’ [Sue, Essex]
‘Fire to me is a metaphor for the intense feelings we inevitably feel when we choose to go raw. Entering the raw fire means paying attention to those feelings and giving them space. ‘ [Ellen, Liverpool]
