Workshops & Events
Beginner Knitting
Been itching to stitch? Well now’s your chance to learn in this beginning knitting workshop with the Seasoned Spoon Café and Christina Pridie, owner, instructor and designer at the Peterborough Yarn Shop.
In this hands-on lesson, participants will get the chance to make their own headband and leave with the needles, yarn and skills to continue knitting at home. Learn how to do long tail cast on, knit, fix mistakes and bind off plus start a stylish hand-made garment to continue knitting at home.
Only 20 spaces available. Register now to book yours! All Materials Included.
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information.
Reusable Beeswax Food Wrappers
Join the Trent Apiary and the Seasoned Spoon for this reusable food wrapper workshop!
Using beeswax straight from the hives at Trent, we will make reusable cloth wrappers that are an environmentally friendly replacement for saran wrap, tinfoil, ziplock bags and other disposables. The perfect solution for all your food transportation and storage needs with zero waste produced! Simply wash, rinse and repeat. All participants will get to make their own wrapper to take home!
$5.00 Registration required
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information or if online registration or cost is a barrier
Craft Fair
The Seasoned Spoon is pleased to announce the return of our fabulous fall artisan 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, hand-made creations of all kinds. Join in the fun, get inspired, support local artists!
Free!
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information
Visit the Facebook event page for more info.
Sauerkraut & Fermentation
“What is sauerkraut?” You say? Sauerkraut is a way of preserving cabbage and various other vegetables using a natural laco-fermentation method which 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.
$5.00 Registration Required
email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com if online registration or cost is a barrier
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*