Workshops & Events
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!
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info
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*
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info.
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!
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info.
Trent Farm to Table Tour
FREE
Meet @ the Seasoned Spoon Café
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 some delicious food samples and hands-on garden activities as part of this tour!
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info.
Composting – Spoils into Soils
Wednesday, April 4th
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Seasoned Spoon Café
$5 or pay what you can
No garden is complete without a compost pile! Composting recycles your kitchen and yard waste into rich soil for your garden, yard, and houseplants. In this workshop, Robin Tench, local compost enthusiast, will give a hands-on presentation about composting techniques to suit any situation. Learn what you should and should not compost, how to build and maintain a bin or pile, and how to harvest and use your custom-made compost for spectacular results! Meet some working worms that can create compost indoors! Compost in places where no gardener has gone before.
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info.
Monday, March 26th
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Seasoned Spoon Café
$5 or pwyc
Eager to have a garden, but short on space? With square foot gardening you can grow more in less space with minimal effort. Learn about this exciting technique from Peterborough Master Gardener, Gladys Fowler. Perfect for urban gardeners, the space challenged and anyone who wants to intensify production or experiment with efficiency.
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info
Pollinator Gardening
Monday, March 12th
5:00 – 7:00pm
Seasoned Spoon Café
$5 or pwyc
In this workshop, local pollinator expert and founder of GreenUp's Ecology Park, Cathy Dueck, will share her extensive expertise with us. Learn about a variety of native and non-native pollinators, factors threatening their populations and what gardeners can do to contribute to habitat re-creation. Practical planting tips, how-to’s and interactive elements will help participants put this knowledge into practice in existing home gardens or in the creation of new pollinator projects.
Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info
15 Year Anniversary Celebration
Seasoned Spoon Anniversary Celebration:
15 years of growing a sustainable, just and inclusive food system at Trent University
Friday, March 9th
10:00am – 8:30pm
Everything by donation
10:00am – 4:00pm: workshops, art, spoon carving, tours, soup and more in the Seasoned Spoon Cafe
5:30pm – 8:30pm: dinner, panel discussion and evening celebrations in the Great Hall
Join us in celebration of this momentous occasion!
Come by the café during the daytime to take part in your favourite Spoon workshops, contribute to a collective art mural, record your favourite Spoon stories or explore our root cellar
Stay into the evening and feast on delicious campus-grown and on ethically produced local foods with us!
Everyone Welcome!!!
