Workshops & Events
Invasion: Online Film Screening & Discussion
Join Settlers Taking Action and Responsibility at Trent (START) and the Seasoned Spoon Cafe for a Screening of Invasion.
Invasion is short documentary about the Unist’ot’en Camp, the Gidimt’en checkpoint and the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s ongoing struggle in standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. The Unist’ot’en Camp has been a beacon of resistance for nearly 10 years. It is a healing space for Indigenous people and settlers alike, and an active example of decolonization. The Wet’suwet’en people have been locked on a fight for the future health of their land, unceded traditional territory which remains relatively intact. START will lead a short discussion following the film.
*donations to the Unist’ot’en camp are highly encouraged. Please find their donation page here**
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Collaborative Action Webinar Series: Community Food Systems
Students from Trent University’s Canadian Food Systems class have teamed up with the Seasoned Spoon café to offer a webinar series about community food issues. Join us for two student webinars on November 25th from 1:00 – 3:00pm. Feel free to pop in or stay for both webinars!
1:00 - 2:00pm: Local Food Providers During COVID-19
Join Vanderview Farms, Fresh Dreams restaurant, and Food Not Bombs food kitchen for a conversation about how these organizations have been impacted by the pandemic and the sustainability of local food providers during COVID-19
2:00 - 3:00pm: Get to Know your Campus Food System:
Learn about the Trent Vegetable Gardens and all the ways they contribute to local community food systems by enjoying a virtual tour, interviews and more
Please register here to join us on Zoom. Or tune in LIVE on the Spoon’s facebook page.
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information
Collaborative Action Webinar Series: Community Food Systems
Students from Trent University’s Canadian Food Systems class have teamed up with the Seasoned Spoon café to offer a webinar series around community food issues. Join us for two student webinars on November 18th from 1:00 - 3:00pm. Feel free to pop in or stay for both webinars.
1:00 -2:00pm: Conversations with Peterborough Farmers:
This webinar will explore the effects of Covid-19 on local farmers and market contributors. Join us as we discover how Covid-19 has begun re-localizing the Canadian food system and the impacts this has had on the Canadian economy.
2:00 – 3:00pm: A showcase of local Farms:
This webinar features farms that engage in the community and strengthen our local food chain. Join us in conversation with Crosswind Farm and SouthPond farms, and learn about innovative ways of creating new products and food options that meet an diversity of needs during challenging times
Please register here on to join us on Zoom. Or tune in LIVE on the Spoon’s facebook page.
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information
Online Community Meal, Film Screening and Panel
Join the Seasoned Spoon and the Trent Vegetable Gardens for our first ever online community meal and film screening!
Community meals are one of the most-loved programs at the Spoon and since we are still unable to be together in person, we are moving the festivities online. Join us from 5:30 – 6:00 pm for a potluck-style zoom hang-out and social. Following dinner, we will screen the film This Garden is Yours, featuring the Oshawa-based organization, We Grow Food. Film producer Jessie Posthumus, We Grow Food founders Michelle Perry and Carol Vandersanden, and Trent Vegetable Gardens Coordinator Emma Macdonald will all join us for a short panel and Q&A following the film. Everyone is welcome! We hope you can join us for this fun-filled evening.
Free! Registration Required
You will receive the zoom link upon registration
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Vermicomposting mini-workshop
Learn how to make your own garden fertilizer that is organic, frugal, and fun! In this quick online mini workshop, learn everything you need to know about red wiggler worm composting including feeding and caring for the worms as well as harvesting and applying the compost. A great way to keep composting all winter long while producing nourishing food for your outdoor or indoor plants! Participants will have the opportunity to order worms and kits if interested.
Free! Join us on Zoom~
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No knead Bread Making
No time to bake? Learn how to make artisan-style bread (and pizza dough!) in your own kitchen with five minutes of work and four ingredients with veteran workshop leaders Myra Hirschberg and Tom Calwell. Join us for this engaging, interactive ZOOM session and enjoy warm, fluffy, homemade bread all year round!
Free! Join us on ZOOM**Registration Required**
Please register Here You will be sent ZOOM info upon registration.
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Virtual Farm to Table Tour
This year we are going digital for our annual campus farm to table tour! Join the Seasoned Spoon Café and Trent Vegetable Gardens on Instagram live for a virtual farm-to-table tour as part of disorientation week at Trent in collaboration with OPIRG Peterborough.
The Gardens and the Spoon partner together to create an accessible and sustainable local food system right here on campus. We are excited for the upcoming year and hope you will join us to learn all about sustainable food systems at Trent and what you can expect this semester. You will get a virtual tour of the café space, field garden and community gardens plus learn about the work we do on campus and how you can get involved. Learn about all the incredible food systems work being done at Trent and have all your questions answered about what our organizations will look like this year
Join us on Instagram Live @ theseasonedspoon from 3:00 - 4:00pm on Wednesday September 16th
CANCELLED - Learn to love Bitters
**We are sad to have to announce the cancellation of this event. Due to Trent University's cancellation of classes and events over COVID-19 concerns, we are no longer able to host this or any other of our upcoming events for the rest of the semester. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.**
Join Jillian Marshall of Bittersweet Botanicals and the Seasoned Spoon cafe for this workshop all about bitters.
This workshop will explore the various cultural and therapeutic applications of bitters, from their use as a digestive agent to the ways they round out a cocktail. Through tasting, demonstration, and discussion each participant will learn the essential role bitters play in our diets, why it’s important to love them and how to make use of them at home. Plus every participant will get an opportunity to make and go home with their own personally-crafted bitter.
$10 - Registration required
Email spoonvoluntees@gmail.com for more information or if online registration and/or cost is a barrier.
CANCELLED - Seed Starting
**We are sad to have to announce the cancellation of this event. Due to Trent University's cancellation of classes and events over COVID-19 concerns, we are no longer able to host this or any other of our upcoming events for the rest of the semester. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.**
Get your spring seeds sprouting with the Trent Vegetable Gardens and the Seasoned Spoon Café!
Learn how to get growing in all your indoor seed starting adventures with this hands-on workshop! From sourcing seeds to growing mediums, lighting, timing and trouble shooting, find out the tips and tricks of the trade from the Coordinator of the Trent Vegetable Gardens! All participants will get the chance to get hands-on with their new skills by planting the first seeds of the season together!
$5 - registration required
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information or if online registration and/or cost is a barrier.
CANCELLED - Community Meal & Wet’suwet’en Fundraiser
**We are sad to have to announce the cancellation of this event. Due to Trent University's cancellation of classes and events over COVID-19 concerns, we are no longer able to host this or any other of our upcoming events for the rest of the semester. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We are very disheartened about this news as we were really looking forward to this special night. We hope to be able to organize something of a similar spirit in the fall. **
Join Settlers Taking Action and Responsibility at Trent (START) and the Seasoned Spoon Cafe for a community meal, film screening, and discussion in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en
Come out in support of Wet’suwet’en sovereignty over their unceded traditional territory, the Unist’ot’en and Gidimt’en Access point camps and actions taking place around the country to defend the rights of Indigenous peoples. This delicious community meal will feature manoomin grown locally in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg by members of the Curve Lake First Nation. Following the meal, we will screen two short films, Invasion, and Marrow and Stone, after which James Wilkes will give a short talk and lead a community discussion.
Invasion is short documentary about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. Marrow and stone is a short film by Olivia Mater about settler identity in Canada. James Wilkes is an Indigenous Environmental Studies Instructor at Trent, holds an MA in Indigenous and Canadian Studies from Trent University and is a PHD candidate in Environmental studies at Queen’s University, focussing on Indigenous law and autonomy in environmental decision making.
As always, Seasoned Spoon Community Meals are open to everyone on a by donation basis. All donations and proceeds from the night will be donated directly to the Unist’ot’en 2020 legal fund. The Seasoned Spoon and all its events are located on the occupied, traditional, ancestral territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe. This is a settler organized event.
Please email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information