18July, Sunday
2-5pm
Food Preservation: Canning Pickled Vegetables
Growing or purchasing food in the height of the local season and preserving for the winter saves money and lessens our impact on the planet. It also spreads a little sunshine under the dreary dark skies of January. Learn simple and delicious ways to put food by with canning.
Taught by co-op staff member and produce extraordinaire Kim Langston
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
21July, Wednesday
6-7:30pm
Acid Alkaline Balance: The ph Health Mystery Explained
Learn what it means to have a more alkaline pH. By making your body more alkaline through simple daily food additions, you lower your risk for disease, experience more energy, and boost your moods dramatically.
Taught by co-op staff member Summer Bock.
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: Fertile Ground 311 9th Ave SE, Olympia
23July, Friday
5:30-8pm
Cold Soups
Come learn how to make an excellent Gazpacho, the popular cold tomato soup from the south of Spain, a Cucumber Walnut cold soup from Bulgaria and many other ideas about the world of cold soups. Come with an open mind, willing tastebuds, and something to take notes.
Taught by Co-op staff member Arturo Sievert
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: Fertile Ground 311 9th Ave SE, Olympia
25July, Sunday
2-5pm
Tools for Women
Learn how to use garden, power and hand tools. Taught by women for women, we will cover safety and proper handling. Tools will include hammer, handsaw, electric screw gun, skill saw, shovel, hula ho, pruners, and more. During this class we will construct a small cold frame.
Taught by Olympia Seed Saver Caitlin Moore.
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: TBA
27July, Tuesday
6-9pm
Food Preservation: Canning Fruit
Growing or purchasing food in the height of the local season and preserving for the winter saves money and lessens our impact on the planet. It also spreads a little sunshine under the dreary dark skies of January. Learn simple and delicious ways to put food by with canning.
Taught by co-op staff member and produce extraordinaire Kim Langston
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
Fall/Winter Gardening
This is part III of GRuB's basic gardening series. Come learn about gardening year round and how to put your garden to sleep for the winter so it will continue to be productive year after year.
Host: GRuB
28July, Saturday 5:30-6:30pm
Location: ROOF Rochester 10140 Highway 12 SW, Rochester
31July, Saturday
11am-1pm
Location:PUD No3 Shelton 307 West Cota Street, Shelton
31July, Saturday 3-4:30pm
Location: Thurston Co. Courthouse 2000 Lakeridge Dr. SW, Bldg 1, Rm 152
07August, Saturday. Potluck:
6-9pm
Sustainable Urban Homestead Tour
Interested in learning how to make your home and lifestyle more sustainable? Come spend the day meeting some of the movers and shakers who are leading the way to a more livable community by developing sustainable urban homesteads. Experience organic vegetable gardens, edible forest gardens, composting systems, poultry keeping, rain gardens, electric vehicle conversions, and more.
Host: Sustainable South Sound
Tour: All Over Olympia
Potluck: Wendell Berry Community Garden, 928 Wilson St NE, Olympia
08August, Sunday
2-5pm
Beekeeping is Easy and Affordable With Top Bar Hives
Top bar hives offer a minimalist approach to beekeeping suitable for the backyard gardener. Come learn what you need to set up your own backyard apiary. Taught by local beekeeper Si Thacker
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
15August, Sunday
1-2pm
That's Cold! Cooling Tips to Relax Your Overheated Body
In this class you'll learn which foods and herbs have a natural cooling effect on your body temperature, and can help with hot flashes or heat rashes. Learn some simple recipes for tasty treats and an entirely edible cooling body spray. Helpful in hot weather or situations that make you nervous and sweaty.
Taught by Ava Waits, Holistic Nutrition Counselor.
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: Fertile Ground 311 9th Ave SE, Olympia
23August, Monday
6-8:30pm
Preparing Fish for Optimal Nutritional Value!
Three delicious, easy-to-prepare fish dishes: Pan-seared Salmon, Cilantro Garlic Halibut, Cod Fish Tacos!
Taught by Local Author & Nutrition Counselor Allison Imel Hamza
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
04September, Saturday
11am-2pm
Composting 101
This class covers ways to deal with kitchen scraps and yard waste by using worm bins and layered compost bins. We will turn a layered compost pile and build a new compost pile from scratch.
Taught by Gail Di Marzo of Fertile Ground Guesthouse
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: Fertile Ground 311 9th Ave SE, Olympia
07September, Tuesday
5:30-8:30pm
Focusing on Fresh
Do you want to cook dishes with fresh, high quality ingredients that will turn out great on the first try? Join Produce Buyer Erin Majors and learn her method of building meals around produce that looks and tastes its best. She will show you how to search online for simple, highly rated recipes that showcase fresh produce and are nutritious and easy to prepare.
Taught by co-op staff member Erin Majors.
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
11September, Saturday
5:30-8:30pm
Cheese Making
Learn how to make delicious cheese at home with someone who has been developing her skill for many years. Class Limit-15.
Taught by Co-op member Cathy Harding.
Host: Olympia Food Co-op
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
12September, Sunday
3-6pm
Food Preservation: Drying
Learn the easy way to preserve the bounty of summer with Food Dehydration. We will also create our own tasty energy bar and camp food without the packaging and expense of prepared store bought items.
Taught by Co-op Staff person Kim Langston
Location: Fertile Ground 311 9th Ave SE, Olympia
25September, Saturday TBA
Biointensive Gardening Workshop
with John Jeavons
Host: Sustainable South Sound
26 September, Sunday TBA
Harvest Festival
Come join us for cider pressing, nut cracking, garden tours, food and music as we celebrate another successful growing season.
Host: Sustainable South Sound
Location: Wendell Berry Community Garden 928 Wilson St NE, Olympia
30September, Thursday TBA
Start Your Own Community Garden
Sliding scale donation of $5-$25. Interested in starting a community garden in your neighborhood? This workshop will cover the basics, from choosing a site and governance model to design and implementation.
Host: Sustainable South Sound
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
COMPOSTING
Thurston County Master Composters are offering free composting workshops at two locations. All classes begin at 10:00am and pre- registration is not required.
More info at http://thurston.wsu.edu
Closed Loop Park:
Located just inside the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center, Hogum Bay
Road, Lacey
Yard Waste Composting: May 8th, June 12th, July 10th
Worm Composting: August 14th, Sept 11th, Oct 9th
Dirt Works:
Located in west Olympia, on Alta Drive off of Capital Mall Drive. The entrance is at the end of Yauger Park parking lot.
Yard Waste Composting: May 15th, Aug. 21st, Sept 18th, Oct 16th
Worm Composting: May 15th, June 19th, July 17th
September, Thursday TBA
Sliding scale donation of $5-$25. Interested in starting a community garden in your neighborhood? This workshop will cover the basics, from choosing a site and governance model to design and implementation.
Host: Sustainable South Sound
Location: GRuB 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia
