Workshops & Events
Wild Plants: Food, Fun & Medicine
Join Miriam Lyall and the Seasoned Spoon Café for this virtual workshop about identifying, choosing, drying, and using local plants for food, flavour and medicine!
Gather with other plant-interested folks as we build relationships with local food and medicine plants that grow themselves. Miriam will lead a discussion about how we can expand our health, happiness, and vitality through working with local plants, simple techniques to get started (or up your game), and resources for learning more. We will also discuss the role of intuition, respectful engagement and gathering practices. If you have questions, experiences, knowledge, or skills to share, please bring them along! We are eager to learn from one another and be inspired to go foraging this spring!
Free! Everyone welcome. Registration required.
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Mending 101
Join the Free Market Collective and the Seasoned Spoon Café for this workshops that will show you how to make the old new again!
Mending is a way of repairing clothes that have holes, stains, or other signs of wear to extend their life. In this discussion-based workshop, two self taught fixers will share their experience and history with mending as well as tips and tricks for the beginner. Participants will learn to sew patches, repair seams, sew darts and more! No supplies necessary, but feel free to bring along items needing repair and any questions you may have! We will also discuss basic supplies for the average fixer.
Our menders: Sonya Grabowski is an avid thrifter and professional upholsterer specializing in marine and boat work. Hannah Michel is a Trent student with a passion for knitting and visible mending, a form of mending that highlights the mend, turning it into art while strengthening your item."
The Free Market Collective is a working group of OPIRG Peterborough
Free! Everyone welcome. Registration required.
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Seed Starting 101
Get your spring seeds sprouting with the Seasoned Spoon Café! Learn how to get growing with all your indoor seed starting adventures in this online workshop! From seed sourcing to soils, lighting, timing, and trouble shooting, find out the tips and tricks of the trade from a past Coordinator of the Trent Vegetable Gardens! With interest in gardening on the rise, it is the perfect year to start your own seedlings. While we cannot put our hands in the soil together this year, feel free to bring seeds and supplies if you have them and plant along with us online. Get your spring seeds sprouting with the Seasoned Spoon Café! Learn how to get growing with all your indoor seed starting adventures in this online workshop! From seed sourcing to soils, lighting, timing, and trouble shooting, find out the tips and tricks of the trade from a past Coordinator of the Trent Vegetable Gardens! With interest in gardening on the rise, it is the perfect year to start your own seedlings. While we cannot put our hands in the soil together this year, feel free to bring seeds and supplies if you have them and plant along with us online.
Free! Everyone welcome. Registration required.
email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more information
Seasoned Spoon AGM
Calling all co-op members! Learn more about your local co-operative café at the Seasoned Spoon AGM. Help elect board members, hear our updates, and contribute to the conversation!
This meeting is for members only – not a member but want to learn more? Write to seasonedspoon@trentu.ca
Registration required. Please Register Here
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Sourdough 101
Join the Seasoned Spoon Café and Grateful Bread’s Emily Amon for this beginner’s sourdough workshop. Emily will take us through all the stages of sourdough from starter to delicious fluffy finish and all the stages in between. See a sourdough starter demo in action, learn the tips and tricks of the trade and have all your sourdough questions answered. Leave with instructions and recipes to start your own sourdough adventures at home.
If you would like to make your own starter along with us please bring: A clean wide mouth mason jar (or other straight-sided jar), rubber band/hair elastic, 1 organic grape (optional), apple or pineapple juice (optional), flour (any kind).
Everyone Welcome. Registration required
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Learn to Love Bitters
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. See bitter making in action in an online demonstration plus learn how to make them at home.
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Invasion: Online Film Screening & Discussion
The Third time is the charm right? After two unforeseen interruptions in running this event, Settlers Taking Action and Responsibility at Trent (START) and the Seasoned Spoon are determined to make this film a go. Join us 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
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**
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 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