Middleground Farms is excited to invite you to The Kitchen for a fun and informative demonstration cooking experience featuring Pacific Northwest wines paired with seasonal food! Learn how they create a multi-course menu featuring Grosgrain Vineyards wines and the freshest ingredients available.
The holidays may still be a few weeks away, but the best baking traditions are worth starting early! If you fill tins with homemade cookies, love bringing something sweet to a holiday gathering, or dream of giving beautiful gifts from your own kitchen, this class is for you.
Maxwell Olwa and Theresa Huggins from Lutheran Community Services Northwest will discuss how restorative justice offers an approach to harm that emphasizes accountability, healing, and community connection alongside alternatives to punishment. Drawing on their work with youth, adults, and people affected by harm, they will explore opportunities to build understanding, repair relationships, rebuild trust, and support safer, healthier communities. Guests are welcome.
A Friendsgiving themed charcuterie styling workshop takes place at Lux Sucre Bakery & Cafe in Wilsonville, where participants learn how to build a beautiful, delicious board and enjoy a festive outing with friends, coworkers, or a significant other. Guided by Grazing To-Go’s owner, Paula, the session covers creating a salami rose, cutting and styling cheeses, presenting fruit in creative ways, and practical tips for planning, shopping, prepping, and assembling a board at home. Each attendee receives a 10-inch round acacia wood board with a handle to keep, along with a box and packaging for transporting everything. Boards are built with charcuterie meats, three to four cheeses, fresh and dried fruit, nuts, cornichons, olives, preserves, honey with a dipper, holiday themed garnishes, crackers, and a sweet, with each board serving up to four. The experience includes a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic beverage, light appetizers, and a mini pumpkin pie from Lux Sucre to enjoy on site or take home. Prizes add to the fun, and attendees receive a 15% discount code for a future Grazing To-Go charcuterie order, including holiday orders. The class runs for 90 minutes. Tickets are priced at $90 for one or $170 for two, and they are non-refundable but transferable to a future class.
This weekly meeting features Marc Czornij and Kamryn Brown from Clackamas County Public Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Education Program. They will discuss the effects of tobacco and nicotine use on young people, how retail settings can influence use, and the challenges of preventing youth access to these products. They will also explain county efforts to reduce secondhand smoke exposure, support people interested in quitting, and encourage healthier environments for young people. Guests are welcome.
Build your Microsoft Word skills with practical formatting instruction and an introduction to more advanced design and layout features. Computers are provided for class use, and no registration is required.
Join Middleground Farms for a festive evening on the farm as they celebrate the art of holiday entertaining with an inspired collection of beautiful, delicious appetizers. They’ll share the secrets to creating impressive little bites, balancing bold flavors and adding those special finishing touches that make party food feel extraordinary. Along the way, you’ll explore clever make-ahead strategies, easy entertaining shortcuts and a few chef techniques that will have you feeling like a pro at your next gathering.
Are you intimidated by what most people believe is the food holiday of the year? Or are you looking for new ideas and to shake up the old standbys? The Kitchen at Middleground Farms will be doing a big practice round for the upcoming holiday. You’ll walk away with the confidence you need to plan, time and execute a delicious holiday meal. There will be a big feast at the farm table to end the day.
Join Middleground Farms for a hands-on evening exploring everything that goes into making great tamales, from preparing tender, flavorful masa to creating delicious fillings and sauces from scratch. In this class, you’ll explore the spices, chiles and cooking techniques that give each variation its distinctive character, then get hands-on filling, wrapping and steaming your creations.