Interactive Workshops
Life Skills, Cooking, Preserving, and Enjoying the Harvest! With an impending food crisis, due to shortages and inflation, now is the time to learn some old-fashioned skills in a community setting. Classes are hands-on, experiential, and interactive. Have fun, make new friends, learn something, and eat great food!
Starting in January and running every month of 2024 – Community Teaching & Commercial Kitchen presents:
Food4Hope’s Community Classes – Skills, Sustainability, and Stewardship
Upcoming Workshops!
Check Out Our Previous Workshops!
Winemaking Workshop
In this fun and educational workshop, we learned how to make homemade wine from scratch with only FOUR INGREDIENTS! Well, five ingredients if you count water as one.
Check out the pictures from the workshop here!
Cheesemaking Workshop
Attendants learned the basics of the art of cheesemaking. Attendees made fromagé blanc and mozzarella to take home.
Check out the pictures from the workshop here!
How to Make Sourdough Bread
Learn how to start, feed, work, prepare and bake sourdough bread. Attendees will leave with a fresh loaf sourdough bread and a starter for the next one. Yum, pass the butter!
Check out the pictures from the workshop here!
Another workshop for this skill will be coming this fall, contact us here to express interest.
Cast Iron Cooking
We showed how to clean, restore, season, and maintain cast-iron cookware. We dispeled long held myths about cast iron cooking. Attendees learn edthe ins and outs of versatile cooking in cast iron in Food4Hope’s cast-iron cooking workshop, including recipes for thick cut steaks, biscuits, bread and cobbler!
Check out the pictures from the workshop here!
Another workshop for this skill will be coming this fall, contact us here to express interest.
Foods from Around the World series: Italian Cuisine
Participants learned to make, eat, enjoy, and take some home. They learned how to properly cook pasta, how to choose an olive oil, what makes true Italian cuisine and more! Hands-on! Ravioli, meatballs, polenta, ricotta ciambelle. Mangia!
Check out the pictures from the workshop here!
How To Make The Perfect Pie
Pie making is becoming a lost art and we are doing what we can to preserve it! Participants learned recipes, tips and tricks while making, baking, and taking home their own pie. Diana Hollman was our guest instructor. Keep an eye out for our next pie workshop, you don’t want to miss this, coming October 2023.
Check out the pictures from the workshop here!
Kimchi Making
Guest instructor: Skylar Falter taught everything you need to know about making Kimchi from scratch, the good, old-fashioned way. Taste some, chop some and take some home!
Check out the pictures from the workshop here!
If interested in another workshop on Kimchi Making contact us here to express interest.
Healing with Herbs Workshop
Our first workshop was Healing with Herbs, held on Saturday, January 28th, 2023, and the April 1st, 2023. This was an interactive, hands-on workshop. Participants learned how to extract the medicinal properties of herbs and make their own tinctures. Filled their medicine cabinet with the good things from God’s creation.
Check out the pictures from the workshops here!
