Metro Area

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.

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.

Celebrate sustainable eating and culinary tradition, all starting with the parts most often left behind in butchering. Discover the rich flavors and forgotten wisdom of whole-animal cooking in this hands-on workshop dedicated to organ meats. Come curious, leave inspired and well fed.

Explore the art of sausage making on a real hog farm. Learn to break down fresh pork, blend creative seasonings and master techniques for grinding, stuffing and linking sausages. Whether you're a curious home cook or an aspiring butcher, you'll leave with the knowledge and the links, you need to start crafting your own sausages at home.

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.