Workshops & Events
Soap Making
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. Leave with the recipe to try at home and explore all the possibilities of substituting oils, adding fragrance, and mixing in other additives like milk, oats or coffee grounds.
Only 20 spaces available for each night in this popular workshop so don’t miss out!
Registration & Pre-Payment Required
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information
Community Meal & Annual General Meeting
Join the Seasoned Spoon for a Community Meal and our Annual General Meeting.
This is a wonderful opportunity to share delicious campus grown foods with your fellow co-op members and to find out how things work behind the scenes at the Spoon. As always, Seasoned Spoon community meals feature fresh campus grown foods and are open to everyone on a pay what you can basis! The AGM portion of the evening is for members only. Memberships can be purchased in the cafe.
Meal @ 5:00pm
Meeting @ 6:00pm
email seasonedspoon@trentu.ca for more info.
Soap Making Workshop
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. Leave with the recipe to try at home and explore all the possibilities of substituting oils, adding fragrance, and mixing in other additives like milk, oats or coffee grounds.
Only 20 spaces available for each night in this popular workshop so don’t miss out!
$45 Pre-registration & payment required.
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information.
Climagration
Join Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC) and the Seasoned Spoon Cafe for a life-size board game simulation, exploring the connections between climate change and global migration. By playing CLIMAGRATION participants will gain an understanding of international relationships and politics between the Global North and South, the disproportionate effects of climate change (economic, political, social, ecological), and the recent emergence of climate refugees.
Free!
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information
Community Meal and Film Screening: Seed: The Untold Story
Join the Seasoned Spoon Café and Trent Vegetable Gardens for our first community meal of the semester where we will share the abundance of the harvest season together. Following this delicious homestyle meal, we will screen the film Seed: The Untold Story, which explores the vital importance of the seed, from the deep roots of our past to the viability of our future, and those that fight to protect their legacies from the destructive reach of industrial agricultural monopolies.
Feel free to come for any part of the night. As always, our community meals feature campus grown foods and are open to everyone on a pay-what you can basis.
Everyone Welcome. Everything by Donation. No registration Necessary
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info
Cider Making Drop-In
Join the Seasoned Spoon and the SAFS society for an afternoon of fun with apple cider. During this casual drop in workshop, we will press local apples into delicious cider using a traditional wooded hand-cranked press on the Seasoned Spoon patio. All are welcome to join for any portion of the afternoon. Pop by for a quick visit during or stay for the whole duration for maximum cider making experience. It’s the perfect outdoor fall activity to enjoy with friends so come by to learn a little about cider making and sample the freshly pressed goodness
$5 suggested donation. No registration required
*Rain date: October 10th – same time*
Season Extension in the Garden
Learn how to keep your garden growing longer with the Trent Vegetable Gardens and the Seasoned Spoon Café
Do you anticipate the frost with dismay? Ever wish your summer greens could last longer? With proper season extension techniques, that wish could become a reality. Join this workshop to learn about a variety of strategies to keep your garden growing well into the fall. Participants will learn about various season extension techniques and then build some cold frames together as an example. Participants will leave with building plans for their very own cold frames as well as new skills and ideas to keep your garden harvest going through the cold.
$5 registration required. Please register here
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com is registration and/or cost are barriers
Tortilla Making
It’s the workshop you have all been waiting for! Learn how to make homemade tortillas with local experts and spoon workshop veterans, Tom and Myra. Expect to get hands on in this workshop where we will make both corn and wheat tortillas as well as a stuffed tortilla dish called pupusa. With options for the gluten free and wheat lovers alike, you can’t go wrong and your new tortilla skills will impress for years to come. Delicious!
$5. Regitration required. Please register here
email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com if registration and/or cost are barriers
Honey Harvesting
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 beehives on the Trent campus, and you can take part in the gooey goodness of the fall honey harvest? In this workshop you will have the opportunity to take part in the harvesting & extracting process, while learning a little about beekeeping along the way. Expect opportunities for tasting and a limited amount of honey for sale. If you have never tasted honey straight from the hive, you don’t want to miss this super sweet opportunity.
$5. Registration Rrequired. Please register here
Please come prepared for walking and being outdoors. Please let us know if you have allergies
contact spoonvolunteers@gmail.com if regsitration and/or cost are barriers
Farm to Table Tour
Join the Seasoned Spoon Café and Trent Vegetable Gardens for a campus farm-to-table tour as part of disorientation week at Trent in collaboration with OPIRG Peterborough.
The Trent Vegetable Gardens and the Seasoned Spoon Café partner together to create an accessible and sustainable local food system right here on campus. Tour the café space, off the grid root cellar, rooftop garden, field garden and community gardens. We'll discuss the work these organizations are doing to build an alternative food system at Trent and all the ways you can get involved including experiential learning, research projects, workshops, volunteering, community meals and more. Find out how you can join the food movement at Trent. Expect to taste some delicious samples and get hands-on in the garden as part of this tour!
*please come prepared for walking and being outdoors*
Free. No registration necessary