Let’s make a delicious fresh-baked pizza at this Co-op pizza party for kids! Expand and train your taste buds! In this lesson, we will make a delicious fresh-baked pizza while exploring the scents and flavors of our favorite herbs and spices. Children will touch, smell and sketch herb plants and choose their favorite combinations for their pizza creation.
Instructors from Midwest Food Connection
FREE
Learn how to ferment delicious fizzy beverages at home! This workshop focuses on learning the basics of making live, fermented beverages at home. We will learn about why it’s good for the body, what happens in fermentation, and how to do it. By capturing and propagating the “Ginger Bug,” participants will be able to make “fizzy juice,” soda, alcohol and vinegar at home.
Monarda Thrasher, Tea for the People, LLC
$15/$12 co-op owners
Join us on Tuesday, October 22, at the Annual Co-op Owners Meeting as we recognize and understand the vital role of Hmong American farmers and Hmong culture in our local food system. Share a meal full of Hmong flavors designed by Chef Yia Vang and learn how Hmong American farmers are organizing to access land, markets, capital, research and training so that they can build intergenerational and community wealth. Our featured speaker is Pakou Hang, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA), a membership based non-profit organization that was created in 2011 to lift up Hmong American farmers and their families.
We will also share the results of the board of directors election, and announce SEED recipients for 2020, including the results of our second Community Choice SEED vote!
Tickets are $5 in advance or $15 at the door.
Children (5-12): $3; Children 4 and under are free.
Make a delicious bowl of Soba noodles with Koshiki Yonemura and Benjamin Smith from Tanpopo Studio!
Have you made Japanese Dashi stock before? Let’s learn to make dashi stock from scratch and cook soba to make a delicious bowl of Soba noodles with Kakiage tempura and mushrooms. This tried and tested recipe is from Tanpopo Noodle Shop, a Japanese restaurant that was once located in Lowertown St. Paul. You will be able to recreate flavors from Tanpopo after this class.
Koshiki Yonemura and Benjamin Smith, Tanpopo Studio
$35/$30 co-op owners
Before casting your vote in this year’s board of directors election, please join us at a Candidate Forum!
Learn soap making from one of Seward Co-op’s most popular soap vendors! In this demonstration class, students will be shown soap making using the cold process method. Each student receives an instruction manual and takes home five bars of soap ($25 retail).
John Hanson, Seward Soap
$30/$25 co-op owners
Join Jesse Haas, functional nutritionist and founder of Wellness Minneapolis, to get some practical strategies for meal planning that will make feeding your family – big and small – a breeze. Participants will take home pantry staples lists, meal planning “hacks,” recipe formulas and sample meal plans.
Jesse Haas, CNS
$20/$15 co-op owners
The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants
You are what you eat. Learn about foods that impact your anxiety, depression, stress, and inflammation as well as principles for healthier eating using a lecture format. Take control of your health and be able to make food choices to help balance your mood. In this class, you will describe how food affects your mental health, understand how to eat foods to balance your mood, identify your own food rules, and gain understanding about how stress and inflammation affect your body.
Monica Peterson, LICSW
$25/20 co-op owners
Make a variety of delicious plant-based dishes with plenty of hidden veggies at this family-friendly event!
