Visit and Learn

Cooks will explore mushroom-forward recipes from two popular books: Cooking with Mushrooms by Andrea Gentl and Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook by Eugenia Bone. The group will meet at the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center - pick up your book today at the Stonington Free Library. RSVP today!

Join the Mystic & Noank Library for their Fabulous Local Foodies Series with Jen Rothman, Executive Director of Yellow Farmhouse Education Center on March 3rd at 5:30PM!

Bring your family to the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center to create a container mushroom kit. Take it home and watch it grow until the fantastic fungi are ready to eat! Drop in on March 8th from between 10AM - 12PM. $15 per mushroom kit!

Join us at the UNITED Table as the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center hosts the Fungi Dialogues, a conversation w/ Chef James Wayman & Farmer Chris Pacheco! Registration and more information can be found through the button link.

Jessica Spivey from Meryl Bakery will welcome you into her kitchen and teach you to work with sourdough, bake with whole grains, and create gluten-free bakes. Classes will be held on March 16th, April 6th, and April 27th. $150 per class or $400 for all three.

Learn to safely and sustainably forage for your wild plants and mushrooms with CT Foraging Club founder Amy Demers and forager and chef Vinny Crotta! Taste Chaga tea and a foraged snack, then take a 45-minute walk to practice plant and mushroom ID skills. Registration is $35 per person, rain or shine.

Join us to learn how to grow a pollinator-friendly flowering lawn this spring on March 29 from 10:30AM - 12PM with Margit Burgess, Accredited CT-NOFA Organic Lawn Care Professional! You will learn how to convert your landscape into native gardens to help boost biodiversity, ecosystem health, and food system resiliency - $10 per person.

In this hands-on class, Chef Jorge Baldiviezo from Masa at the Stonington Velvet Mill will welcome you to his kitchen and teach traditional and new takes on empanadas fillings and the fine art of hand crimping. $100 for the entire class at the Velvet Mill!

Gather around the table in the historic Stone Acres Manor House for a unique writing workshop that explores the deep connection between food and storytelling. Food For Thought will be led by award-winning author Lara Ehrlich, founder and director of Thought Fox Writers Den. The workshop will meet at the Manor House on Stone Acres Farm on April 1, 8, 15 & 22 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.