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Crepe Paper Flower Workshop

$100

with Deborah Wood

Calendar Next available session starts Feb 13, 2025 at 5:30 pm

In partnership with Loving Paperwhites

Learn the art of crepe flowers with floral artist Deborah Wood. Craft beautiful flowers and take home an roses everlasting bouquet of roses, poppies and cosmos flowers!

Grab your friends and celebrate Galentine’s Day with us on February 13th at 5:30PM - 7PM; enjoy wine and small bites in the recently restored historic greenhouse at Stone Acres Farm.

Cost is $100. Proceeds from this workshop make it possible for Yellow Farmhouse to bring children from all over CT to learn about the role that flowers and pollination play in a healthy food system. 

The workshop will meet in the Greenhouse on Stone Acres Farm, 389 North Main Street, Stonington CT 06378

Send inquiries to info@yellowfarmhouse.org.

President's Day Breakfast Club

$40
Calendar Next available session starts Feb 17, 2025 at 10 am

Ages: 7 - 11

Rise and shine and learn to make the sweet and savory breakfast foods we all love! 

Join us at the Yellow Farmhouse on Monday, February 17th, from 10AM to 12:30PM for a President's Day Breakfast Club. The cost is $35 per child ages 7 to 11!

Address: 389 North Main Street, Stonington CT 06378

If you have any questions, please email us at info@yellowfarmhouse.org!

How Does Your Mushroom Grow?

$15

with Aric Wellman

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 8, 2025 at 10 am

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 Yellow Farmhouse Education Center on Stone Acres Farm at 389 North Main Street, Stonington, CT 06378.

Send inquiries to info@yellowfarmhouse.org

The Art of Baking at Meryl Bakery (3-Class Series)

$400

with Jessica Spivey

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 16, 2025 at 2 pm

Jessica Spivey opened Meryl Bakery in Stonington’s Velvet Mill in October 2024. Prior to Meryl Bakery, Jessica was the Pastry Chef at Mystic’s award-winning Oyster Club and Port of Call where she earned a nomination for Best Pastry Chef by the Connecticut Restaurant Association in 2024. At Meryl Bakery, which has quickly become a Stonington sensation, Jess uses local and seasonal ingredients to produce naturally leavened products made by hand with care.

In these hands-on classes, Jess will welcome you into her kitchen and teach you to work with sourdough, bake with whole grains, and create gluten-free bakes.

Classes will meet at Meryl Bakery in the historic Stonington Velvet Mill, 22 Bayview Ave, suite 75, Stonington, CT 06378.

$400 for the entire 3-class series. If you would like to attend individual classes for $150 each, please view our individual "The Art of Baking" listing HERE

Class Information:

Sourdough 101 on March 16th from 2PM - 5PM

Baking with Whole Grains on April 6th from 2PM - 5PM

Approachable Gluten Free on April 27th from 2PM - 5PM

Proceeds will allow Yellow Farmhouse to bring children from all over Connecticut to Stone Acres Farm to learn to cook with seasonal produce. 

Send inquiries to info@yellowfarmhouse.org.

The Art of Baking at Meryl Bakery (Single Classes)

$150

with Jessica Spivey

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 16, 2025 at 2 pm
2 additional sessions through Apr 27, 2025

Jessica Spivey opened Meryl Bakery in Stonington’s Velvet Mill in October 2024. Prior to Meryl Bakery, Jessica was the Pastry Chef at Mystic’s award-winning Oyster Club and Port of Call where she earned a nomination for Best Pastry Chef by the Connecticut Restaurant Association in 2024. At Meryl Bakery, which has quickly become a Stonington sensation, Jess uses local and seasonal ingredients to produce naturally leavened products made by hand with care.

In these hands-on classes, Jess will welcome you into her kitchen and teach you to work with sourdough, bake with whole grains, and create gluten-free bakes.

Classes will meet at Meryl Bakery in the historic Stonington Velvet Mill, 22 Bayview Ave, suite 75, Stonington, CT 06378.

Each class in this series is $150. To register for the entire 3-series course, please visit our listing HERE.

Proceeds will allow Yellow Farmhouse to bring children from all over Connecticut to Stone Acres Farm to learn to cook with seasonal produce. 

Send inquiries to info@yellowfarmhouse.org.

Mushroom and Plant Identification Class

$35

with CT Foraging Club

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 22, 2025 at 10 am

Learn to safely and sustainably forage for your wild plants and mushrooms! CT Foraging Club founder Amy Demers and forager and chef Vinny Crotta will teach us how to identify and utilize spring fungi and plants positively.

We will taste Chaga tea and a foraged snack and then take a 45-minute walk to practice plant and mushroom ID skills. 

25% of the proceeds of this workshop will go towards a donation to the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center, whose goal is to connect people to where their food comes from and make a local, sustainable food system accessible to all.

Registration is $35 per person. 

Note: This event will focus on identifying and locating wild mushrooms, not collecting them. This event will take place outside rain or shine. 

Meet at the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center on Stone Acres Farm, 389 North Main Street, Stonington CT 06378

Send inquiries to info@yellowfarmhouse.org.

How to Grow a Pollinator-Friendly Flowering Lawn

$10

with Margit Burgess

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 29, 2025 at 10:30 am

Join us to learn how to grow a pollinator-friendly flowering lawn this spring on March 29 from 10:30AM - 12PM!

Our local food system relies on the health and abundance of the wildlife around us. Margit Burgess, Accredited CT-NOFA Organic Lawn Care Professional, will teach you how to convert your landscape into native gardens to help boost biodiversity, ecosystem health, and food system resiliency.

There will be plenty of time for questions so that you can feel confident in your plans to create a vibrant and sustainable landscape!

Registration is $10 per person. Proceeds help Yellow Farmhouse provide field trips to children all over southeast Connecticut. 

This class will be held at the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center on Stone Acres Farm, 389 North Main Street, Stonington CT 06378.

Send inquiries to info@yellowfarmhouse.org.

The Art of Empanadas at Masa

$100

with Jorge Baldiviezo

Calendar Next available session starts Mar 31, 2025 at 4 pm

Chef Jorge Baldiviezo opened Masa in Stonington’s Velvet Mill in April 2024. In January, Masa made CT Magazine’s list of top new restaurants. Prior to moving the United States, Chef Baldiviezo was chef de partie at Central, the visionary restaurant in Lima Peru that earned #1 on the list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2023. Now Chef Boldiviezo is expressing his latin roots through traditional dishes, artisanal sandwiches, and innovative empanadas.

In this hands-on class, Chef Baldiviezo will welcome you to his kitchen and teach traditional and new takes on empanadas fillings and the fine art of hand crimping.

Workshop price: $100

Proceeds will make it possible for Yellow Farmhouse to bring children from all over Connecticut to Stone Acres Farm to learn to cook with seasonal produce. 

Location: Masa in the Stonington Velvet Mill, 22 Bayview Ave Suite 75, Stonington, CT 06378

Send inquiries to info@yellowfarmhouse.org.





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