Workshops & Events
Fire Cider Workshop
Seasoned Spoon Café
$8 or pwyc
Kick those winter flus and activate your immune system with this fiery folk remedy. Fire cider is
a traditional immune supporting tonic with deep roots in folk medicine. This zesty, infused,
medicinal vinegar is packed full of immune boosting, anti-bacterial and anti-viral herbs. It's used
as a defense against colds and flus and is also excellent for digestion and circulation. In this
workshop, you'll learn how to make this cold busting remedy and leave with a small jar to take
home.
Registration required. More details to come.
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The Seasoned Spoon's Craft Fair
Seasoned Spoon Café
Free!
The Seasoned Spoon is pleased to announce the return of our fall Craft Fair. A wonderful occasion to treat yourself, or to pick up seasonal gifts for family and friends. Come by the café and discover delightful, unique, artisan creations of all kinds. Join in the fun, get inspired, support local artists!
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Soap Making Workshop
Monday, November 12th
Monday, November 19th
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Seasoned Spoon Café
$40.00
Learn how to make your own environmentally friendly, sensational soap that is phthalate and
paraben free. A treat for the hands & body, or a great seasonal gift idea for family and friends!
Leave this workshop with around 20 bars of hand-crafted soap to stock your home or give away
to loved ones. Bring the recipe home with you and explore infinite possibilities for substituting
oils, add fragrance, and mixing in other additives like oats or coffee grounds.
Only 20 spaces available in this popular workshop so don’t miss out!
Pre-registration & prepayment required via Eventbrite:
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South Asian Cooking Workshop
Seasoned Spoon Café
$5.00
Registration Required!
The Seasoned Spoon is pleased to team up with the South Asian Association at Trent (SAAT) in
this sizzling hot international cooking workshop. SAAT will lead us in cooking and sampling a few delicious dishes together.
Participants will also get the opportunity to learn about traditional spices and even take some recipes home.
Open your mind and your taste buds to new flavours! Feel free to bring ideas, or stories to share about your own culinary
traditions as well!
Registration:
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Sauerkraut 101
$5 or pwyc
“What is sauerkraut,” you say? Sauerkraut is a way of preserving cabbage and various other vegetables using a natural laco-fermentation method which actually increases the nutritional value of your food and is full of probiotics, just like yogurt or kombucha! Oh, did we mention, it’s also extremely delicious!
Using traditional recipes and fresh fall produce from the Trent Vegetable Gardens, this workshop will teach you how to make your own super nutritious and delicious fermented veggie preserves that will last you all winter long. A staple for any local food lover’s fridge.
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Community Meal &HaudenoSaunee Corn Teaching
Seasoned Spoon Café
By Donation
Join the Seasoned Spoon Café, the Flint Corn Project and the Trent Vegetable Gardens for a festive fall feast and community gathering.
This special meal will showcase Haudenosaunee flint corn, in conjunction with a variety of squash and beans, grown in the traditional three-sisters mound method right here on campus in the Trent Vegetable Gardens in partnership with the Flint Corn Community Project. Following the meal, Nikki Auten, manager of the Flint Corn Community Project and Master of Arts student in the Sustainability Studies program at Trent will share traditional teachings about Haudenosaunee corn and its significant as a main staple of the Haudenosaunee food system.
As always, Seasoned Spoon community meals feature fresh campus grown foods and are open to everyone on a pay what you can basis. Hope to see you there!
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Seed Saving
$5 or pwyc
Meet at @the Spoon
Join the Seasoned Spoon Café, the Trent Vegetable Gardens and Jill Bishop from Nourish Project for this hands-on workshop about Seed Saving basics
Jill is a skilled grower, educator and avid seed saver with her own heirloom seed company, urbantomato. She will lead us in this hands-on workshop about the basics of seed saving including how to get started, why it is important, practical tips, resources and more! As part of this workshop, participants will get to explore the Trent rooftop garden and learn how to identify, collect and clean seeds along the way. There will also be the opportunity to hear about inspiring community seed projects as well as take some Trent Garden saved seeds home with you!
*Please come prepared to spend some time outdoors as the group will walk to the Trent rooftop garden from the Spoon where a portion of the workshop will take place outside*
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Honey Harvesting
$5.00
Meet @ The Seasoned Spoon Café
*Registration required*
The Trent Apiary Club and the Season Spoon Café bring you this sweet and syrupy workshop all about honey.
Everyone loves honey, right? Well did you know that the Apiary Club keeps bee hives right on the Trent Campus and you can take part in the gooey goodness of fall honey harvest? In this workshop you will have the opportunity to participate the harvesting & extracting process while learning a little about beekeeping along the way! There will be tasting involved in this workshop and a limited amount to honey for sale too. If you have never tasted honey straight from the hive, you are in for a special treat!
*After meeting at the Seasoned Spoon Café, we will walk to the Trent Apiary, located on the other side of campus, where the workshop will take place outdoors, so come prepared for walking and outdoor weather *
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com to register or for more information
*Rain date: September 27th same time*
No Knead Bread Making
Seasoned Spoon Café
$5.00
No time to bake? You can learn how to make artisan-style bread (and pizza dough!) in your own kitchen with five minutes of work and four ingredients in our Artisan Bread Making Workshop with veteran workshop leaders Myra Hirschberg and Tom Calwell. Enjoy warm, fluffy, homemade bread all year round without all the labour!
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The Edible Wild:
Native Plant Discovery Walk
3:00 – 6:00pm
$5 or pay what you can
Meet @ the Seasoned Spoon Café
Join us as we embark on a journey of connecting to the land around the Trent campus, deepening our relationship to the plants that grow there and discovering the gifts they have to offer.
In this interactive nature walk, Robin Tench (local plant teacher etc? Something here about \yourself here Robin) will lead us in identifying native plants and wild edibles, while sharing some nature lore and local plant wisdom along the way. Participants will have the opportunity to sample some wild edibles and there will be ample opportunity to ask all your burning questions about local plants. This workshop is participatory, and collaborative so please feel free to bring your own plant knowledge, experiences and stories to share!
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