Upcoming Events

friday, April 26 2024 / 1pm-2:00pm / downtown ( location TBa)

Solidarity in Action: Building Community with Grassroots Youth

On April 26th 2024 at 1pm, we are hosting Rising from Our Roots for a presentation on how young people can participate in grassroots organizing.

Since 2021, Rising from Our Roots has been running park meal programs and donation drives for people living in encampments who are experiencing unstable housing and mental health issues. They work to redistribute essential resources and build community with tenants and fellow youth volunteers. Over the past few years, they have been able to grow their organization through partnerships and grants. In this presentation, Rising from Our Roots aims to make information on starting and organizing your own grassroots organization or project more accessible to youth and other community members. 

The presentation will be 30-40 minutes and all participants will be given a lunch to eat as they listen. This event is free, but you must register to secure your spot! The event will take place on or near McGill’s downtown campus and the location will be sent to the registered participants directly. Spots are limited so sign up early!

Past Events

friday, december 8 2023 / 1pm-2:30pm / 3480 Rue McTavish, room 203

Dumpster Diving

Midnight Kitchen's 'Lunch n Learn' series offers students and the public an opportunity to learn about community research and projects while enjoying a delicious vegan lunch.

We are hosting Val Masny for a presentation on the use of dumpster diving to reduce food waste and work towards food security. Val will be discussing the history of dumpster diving, how to go dumpster diving in Montreal, how to prepare food that is dumpster dived, and how dumpster diving can benefit community organizations.

The presentation will be 30-40 minutes and all participants will be given a lunch to eat as they listen. This event will take place in the SSMU building, room 203, on McGill campus. Spots are limited so please sign up early.

friday, september 15 2023 / time tbd / THE MIDNIGHT KITCHEN GARDEN, THE EAST SIDE OF 805 SHERBROOKE WEST

Dandelion Celebration!

Midnight Kitchen's 'Lunch n Learn' series offers students and the public an opportunity to learn about community research and projects while enjoying a delicious vegan lunch.

In this workshop, participants will spend time in the Midnight Kitchen garden exploring and learning all about one of the most misunderstood plant healers: the bright and sunny, prolific and giving, hardy dandelion!

We’ll taste some dandelion-based foods & drinks while learning about its history, herbal properties, nutritional benefits, and cosmetic uses. We’ll also discuss the lessons this “notorious weed” can teach us about our relationship to consumerism, healing, and the environment. Together, we'll make custom dandelion herbal bitters for each person to take home. Please bring small glass jars – 125ml - 250ml. Participants will receive a zine pdf (full of recipes) and an herbal preparation we’ll make together.

Workshop is in English but can be translated as needed in French.

About the Facilitator:

Pamela Andi Fillion is a disabled queer settler, artist, survivor, activist, crafter, keen fermenter, community organizer, and sometimes scholar. The kitchen and working with and around food is what Pamela considers her hearth. Blueberryjams is the result of a lively concoction of all of her interests and skills. Blueberryjams offers a variety of crafted products, penned texts, and skillshares with a focus on DIY, radical home economics, and herbalism through an emphasis on sustainability, creativity, and community.

saturday, August 5 2023 / 3pm / building 21, mcgill campus

Eggplant Wokshop: rebinding home through stomach
茄子炒锅坊：以胃重构家

Midnight Kitchen's 'Lunch n Learn' series offers students and the public an opportunity to learn about community research and projects while enjoying a delicious vegan lunch.

[Registration Full] This is the first iteration of the eggplant wokshop, inspired by the project Audrey Jiang did in Winter 2023 with McGill Building 21. Eggplant wokshop is a site for communicating and sharing eggplant knowledge and memories, through which we will briefly talk about the history of the plant, its different presentations in regional cuisines, and eggplant stories among the diaspora community (displaced bodies) in Montreal and beyond. Audrey will also lead the group in preparing their own pickled eggplant to take home with them. A meal will be provided for participants by the Midnight Kitchen. Find a more detailed workflow on the Eventbrite site.

Monday, december 12, 2022 at 5pm-8pm

Holiday Grocery Baskets 2022

Midnight Kitchen will be distributing 30 boxes of non-perishable groceries for the holidays provided by Moisson Montreal! Pick ups will happen at the SSMU on Monday December 12th, 5pm to 8pm. The grocery boxes offered will include products that contain animal products such as milk, eggs, and fish.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2021 AT 5 PM – 7 PM

Harvesting the Summer Garden for Winter Remedies

This workshop will be based on the plants in participants' gardens. Ahead of the workshop, you will be asked to name up to 6 plants in your garden and 3 common winter ailments you deal with. Based on this, we will discuss the properties of these flowers, herbs, spices and how they can be harvested, stored, and/or transformed into some key winter remedies.

During the workshop, participants will be guided into interacting with their herbal allies and through an herbal transformation. The goal of this workshop is to deepen our knowledge and relationship with our gardens, connect with other gardens of all levels, and of course, learn key folk herbalism transformation techniques and recipes.

Participants will receive workshop notes and recipes in the form of a PDF.

About the facilitator:
Pamela Fillion is a disabled queer settler, artist, survivor, activist, crafter, keen fermenter, community organizer, and sometimes scholar. The kitchen and working with and around food is what Pamela considers her hearth. Blueberryjams is the result of a lively concoction of all of her interests and skills.

THURSDAY JULY 22 2021 / 5 PM – 7 PM / zoom

Soulbiometry: Ancestral Gut & Soul Health for BIPOC

What is the relationship between gut, ancestral and soul health?

In this workshop, we will dive into the concept/embodiment of gut and soul health through exploring both biomedical and indigenous cosmologies. We will then reflect on how the vitality of our gut and soul health links into our connection to our ancestors.

This workshop space is also a ritual space to invite our ancestors into our healing journey. Bring yourself and your intentions for healing!

About the facilitator:
Sha Agbayani honours how wellness is impacted by our communal, environmental, economic, spiritual, and ancestral relations, our soul purpose, energetic sovereignty, bodily constitution, bio-region, our access (to food, finances, & community), and our sense of safety, presence and intimacy with ourselves and all our relations. Sha relates to community as the process and practise of co-creating conditions of care, safety, intimacy, and responsibility to nourish the soul expression, health and gifts of each unique soul in our biosphere.

THURSDAY JUNE 24 2021 / 5 PM – 7 PM / 3625 Rue Aylmer

Befriending Plants in Your Neighbourhood

More than ever before, we need connection however we can find it! Come and explore different ways to get to know, interact with and build relationships to plants in your communities. We’ll take a walk to a few back alleys and natural environments around campus to find some common and resilient pals. Milena will offer an observation guide and suggestions to deepen your relationships to plants—and the Earth —in your environment , even in the city.

About the facilitator:
Milena Gioia is a queer witch herbalist, community organizer and alternative mental health advocate. Plants have supported Milena's healing processes in many ways, and not just through their medicinal properties. Tending to, admiring and befriending plants has brought Milena to deepen their relationship to the earth and its cycles as well as to their ancestors. They have found that tuning into the joyful expression of earth all around is a powerful grounding and nurturing force.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 2021 / 6 PM – 7:30 PM / zoom

Eating Well Enough Series: Eating For Your Mental Health

Eating Well Enough is Midnight Kitchen's new online workshop series where we talk about food and the many different ways it can benefit you! Eating For Your Mental Health is the first of the series and is a collaboration with Black Mental Health Connections MTL,.

During these trying times, our mental health can become de-regulated by so many factors. How we eat is one of the ways we can take care of and heal ourselves and is an important part of mental health hygiene. Join Midnight Kitchen and BMHC MTL as we discover easy ways to ensure our meals are doing the best for our brains!

FRIDAY APRIL 3 2020 / KEYNOTE AND Q&A: 5-6:30PM / EXPERIMENTAL ANCESTRAL DINNER: 6:30-8PM / 2450 RUE WORKMAN (CENTRE CULTUREL GEORGES-VANIER

Postponed - Root Work: Growing Community with Cheyenne Sundance

In this keynote, Cheyenne Sundance will draw on her experience as farmer and founder of Sundance Harvest to imagine agricultural futures that are equitable and viable for us all. In her view, cooperatives in urban agriculture are a necessary part of this equitable future. She will share her experience founding the worker-cooperative urban farm Radical Roots; and will also discuss urban farming as a viable career choice for those who are directly affected by food injustice. Learn about how and why those affected by environmental injustice must be leading the agriculture movement for an equitable future for all!

Cheyenne Sundance, is a self-taught organic farmer who has worked in both rural and urban settings where she tended to fields of vegetables, fruit forests and livestock. Her farming has always been with a social justice framework since being able to grow your own food is the foundation of independence, especially for those who are Black and Indigenous and face marginalization. She is a food justice educator with experience working in community organizing and political resistance movements. Cheyenne is founder and farmer of Sundance Harvest, an urban farm in Toronto, Ontario that focuses on food justice and eradicating systemic racism in the food system. Cheyenne is also a member and creator of Toronto's first Urban Farm Coop, Radical Roots.

Food is a powerful force for bringing people together and sparking discussion about our daily lives and our connection to the earth. On the menu for the evening are special dishes that each have a story (or multiple). The intention behind the dinner is to acknowledge and celebrate our histories, our continued resilience, and imagine new food futures.

Thursday December 5 2019/ 6pm to 8:30pm / 3590 rue jeanne-mance (Association récréative Milton-Parc)

MK’s Big Free Dinner Party!

Please note that space is limited. Registration is required through our facebook event.

As you may know, Midnight Kitchen has been greatly affected by the closure of the SSMU building for construction! We have been displaced from our home kitchen since March 2018. We've had fun coming up with creative ways to continue our connection with and support of students and the community.
With our changed programming we have received overwhelming support from our volunteers and are very grateful for the relationships we've been able to maintain during this time!
To celebrate our appreciation of our volunteers and our continued connection with McGill students and our surrounding community, we would like to invite you all to our BIG FREE DINNER PARTY!
Join us for a fancy dinner, in resistance to the corporatization of food services!
Come dressed to the nines! There will be a photo booth as well as other fun activities and music!

Midnight Kitchen Summer Workshop Series 2019

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• Earthbound - The pathway to your own mythology / Friday June 21 2019 / 12pm / Mount Royal Park (meet at the Georges Etienne Cartier monument)

• Bioavailability for BIPOC / Friday July 5 2019 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel

• Making It Last: The Art of Food Storage / Thursday July 11 2019 / 6pm / 3471 rue Peel

• Body positivity from a Black queer perspective / Friday July 19 2019 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel

• Corn: A Colombian Daily Language / Thursday July 25 2019 / 6pm / Santropol Roulant (111 Roy St E)

• Living Soils & Society / Friday August 2 2019 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel

• Urban beekeeping & pollinator friendly gardens / Friday August 16 2019 / 12pm / Thompson House (3650 McTavish)

• From Start(er) to Finish: Creating and Maintaining a Sourdough Starter / Thursday August 22 2019 / 6pm / Santropol Roulant (111 Roy St E)

Friday June 21 2019 / 12pm / Mount royal park (meet at the georges etienne cartier monument)

Earthbound - The pathway to your own mythology: connecting with your inner ally

In this creative and exploratory workshop, we share tools for connecting with our inner allies: the guides, the companions, and sources of support that we can ask for anytime, especially when we feel most alone. Using modes of radical listening and active imagination exercises, we help participants start connecting with this inner source of strength, wisdom and guiding intuition. We consider how our inner allies (and inner monsters!) can challenge the dominant narratives of the eternal struggle that is so-central to the hero’s journey.

Friday July 5 2019 / 12pm / 3471 Peel, basement

Bioavailability for BIPOC, with Sha

In this workshop, we discuss practical tools and skill building practices for supporting the bioavailability of our food and bodies. Bioavailability can refer to our capacity to connect with the vital life force in our foods. We will discuss practices such mindfulness, breath, sound, intention, and food preparation methods such as fermentation and building our own spice blends) to deepen/heighten our capacity to connect with the life force of our food

Thurs July 11 2019 / 6pm / 3471 Peel, basement

Making It Last: The Art of Food Storage

Based on years of experimenting with ways of making food last and cutting down on waste, this workshop will focus on how to make the most of the food we have. From food storage tips to food transformation techniques, participants will receive a host of tried and true tips from a radical home economics perspective. As well, a portion of the workshop will be reserved for participants to share their own experiences and tips.

Friday July 19 2019 / 12pm / 3471 Peel, basement

Body and positivity from a Black queer perspective, with Shannon

What does it mean to be positive about your body? Does it change when you are a marginalized person? How can we be there for each other when the world hyper sexualizes our bodies? This workshop will consist of a facilitated discussion on the topic of body positivity for Black queer people.

Thursday July 25 2019 / 6pm / Santropol Roulant (111 Roy St E)

Corn: A Colombian Daily Language, with Nico

In this workshop, participants will have a chance to experience the stories, traditions and recipes from the Andean traditions of Colombia. Using corn as the main ingredient, participants will create whole slew of corn-based recipes such as arepas, envueltos, and even corn-based drinks.
This workshop is intended to bring artistic exploration and culture exchanges between participants. Food cooking and sharing will be accompanied by music from the region.

Friday Aug 2 2019 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel, basement

Living Soils & Society, with Dona

Vibrant soils are crucial in maintaining a state of reciprocal abundance in the natural cycle. In this workshop we will learn what healthy soils are, how they work, and what regenerative practices we can take to revive dead dirt into living soils! We will also look at how these practices are reflective of human landscapes, and how we can apply frequencies of the natural world back into our own to deepen our relationships to ourselves, each other, and the land.

Friday Aug 16 2019 / 12pm / Garden behind Thompson House (3650 McTavish St)

Urban beekeeping and pollinator friendly gardens

Join the Dandelion collective at our urban hive behind Thompson House for an informative and demonstrative workshop where we will discuss the basic of urban apiculture and the importance of pollinators in urban spaces.

Thursday August 22 2019 / 6pm / Santropol Roulant (111 Roy St E)

From Start(er) to Finish: Creating and Maintaining a Sourdough Starter

This workshop provides individuals ranging from no experience to hobbyist baking-level to learn intimately about raising and keeping up with a sourdough culture. It will be an informational discussion with the opportunity to hands-on experience. Workshop-goers will leave with small pieces of sourdough starter, as well as the knowledge to make bread out of their own little piece of sourdough life.

Spring Workshop Series 2019

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• April 5 2019 / 12pm / ECOLE (3559 rue University) Merienda Time!: Collective Food Making & Snacking as Diaspora

• April 20 2019 / 12pm / Centre Communidee (137 rue Saint Ferdinand) Inter-generational Trauma & Rediscovering Jamaican Cuisine

• May 24 2019 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel Plant Friends for Burnout: Remedies for Persistent Fatigue

• May 17 2019 / 12pm / MK Garden on McGill Campus DIY Sub-irrigation Containers out of Reclaimed Materials

• May 31 2019/ 12pm / 3471 rue Peel The Costs of Eating Healthy & Buying Green: A Deeper Look

April 5 2019 / 12pm / ecole (3559 university)

Merienda Time!: Collective Food Making & Snacking as Diaspora

A BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) priority* workshop where we will be preparing a Filipino dish called Ginataang Bilo Bilo (Sticky Rice Balls in Coconut milk). This dish is usually made together, getting all the Titas (aunts) and kids to participate in rolling the rice balls into circles. There is a community gathering aspect and conversation about the importance of food from home, how food is not only a memory but a living remix. The original recipe is the same but the ingredients have to change with what is available. That is a form of evolution, and that is how these recipes live on through the diasporic communities.
*This workshop is open to all and at the same time, we are prioritizing Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC) participants.

PRESENTER BIO: Deann Louise C. Nardo is a Pilipinx non-binary femme poet and artist living, working, and napping in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. A voracious craft pursuer and maker, they work with wood, paper, food and whatever else you can throw at them. Their work thrives on the thin line where questions live; where memory, healing, and community are embodied. You can find them bobbing their head to lo-fi Hip Hop and leaving pavlovas as calling cards at potlucks.

April 20 2019 / 12pm / Centre Communidee (137 rue Saint Ferdinand)

Inter-generational Trauma & Rediscovering Jamaican Cuisine

Caribbean cooking is more than a bunch of ingredients lumped together. It is centuries of cultivation beyond eurocentric taste. It is our elders yelling from across the room to come and eat. It is the cookouts we might be late for, but never miss. It is seasoned diasporic love. Recipe print-outs will be provided.

Facilitator bio: Noka Palm Trees is a multidisciplinary artist who showcases their eccentricity through visual, poetic and performance art. Their known for mixing Afro-futurism, Jamaican pinnacles, and a funkadelic aesthetic across all forms of their own artistic style.

May 24 2019 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel

Plant Friends for Burnout: Remedies for Persistent Fatigue

This workshop outlines some go-to plant allies in times of burnout and persistant fatigue. We will experiment with different types of plant preparations including an infusion, a decoction, a tincture, and flower essences.

Facilitator bio: Milena is a queer witch herbalist with lots of feelings. Their approach to plant medicine is intuitive, magical, tactile (lifelong gardener, cook and potion-maker), evidence-based (in their 2nd year of plant medicine therapy/naturopath studies), informed by their experience of chronic health issues and based in social and environmental justice. Plant friends have helped her to make peace with her body, mind and spirit, reconnect to the Earth and ground herself; they hope they can inspire others to do the same.

May 17 2019 / 12pm / MK Garden on McGill Campus

DIY Sub-Irrigated Container Gardens

We live in a city where every recycling day one can find enough materials to build container for growing food. This workshop will outline how to build and source the materials for a container garden for growing food. The principles of container gardens and requirements for growing food. This will be a hands-on workshop! Participants will get to make their own container to bring home and grow something cute this summer.
The facilitator will bring a few extra containers and other supplies, but please bring a 4-6 gallon container if you can find one! Photos and more information about type of container preferred are available in the comments below.

PRESENTER BIO: Atom Cianfarani is a queer artist and designer whose practice is founded in the repurposing of refuse. Working from an ecological restoration ideology, she aims to reconcile urban architecture with its ecological habitats thereby making the urban reality more compatible with our natural world.

May 31 2019 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel

The Costs of Eating Healthy and Buying Green

Being "healthy" and being "green" is in! And, at what cost? Cutting back on meat for example, eating more superfoods, buying organic, etc, are all considered actions that can make one healthier or greener. This workshop looks at some of the real costs and/or myths of the green movement and health trends that often get overlooked in relation to the land, the farmers, the consumers, and the people who traditionally eat and cultivate these trending foods and practices. It will also look at the complexities of what terms like organic, fair trade, free run, etc actually mean in a world of capitalism and "free" trade. How do these things affect the nutrient spectrum and medicinal aspects of what we put in our bodies? How do these things affect the health of the planet? When it comes to choices that benefit the environment and ones health, it's complicated, and there is not necessarily a right or wrong, just costs and benefits to a choice that has many layers. This is an invitation to learn more about the layers behind some of these choices, to have a conversation and exchange of experiences around the the choices we make and the intricacies of balancing the costs for our bodies, our relations and the planet.

PRESENTER BIO: Dona La Luna is of Vietnamese-Chinese heritage and was born and raised in Treaty 6 (Edmonton) and later moved to Tio'tia:ke (Montreal). For over six years, she has worked alongside and learned from farmers, Earth activists, teachers, and elders both local and global within permaculture and sustainability fields. She has cultivated a deep respect for traditional stewards and their regenerative practices both on and off the land, that have nourished her to this day. She is passionate about plants and the planet in general, receiving her PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) with Starhawk, Charles Williams, and Pandora Thomas in 2015 and has taught at the same course in 2018. She loves to cycle, build things, do art, community organise, and has a skateboard at home that one day she hopes to master.

Tuesday March 5 2019 / 6pm / 2450 rue Workman, Centre culturel Georges-Vanier

Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom Uprooting Racism

Doors: 5:30pm
Dinner: 6:00pm
Talk: 6:30pm (sharp)

Join us for a free dinner and keynote featuring special guest Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, author of the newly released book "Farming While Black." Books will be available for sale by Racines.

Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices––from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative and community supported agriculture (CSA)––have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to a decline from 14 percent of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with a corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land. Further, black communities suffer disproportionately from illnesses related to lack of access to fresh food and healthy natural ecosystems.

Soul Fire Farm is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. Through programs such as the Black-Latinx Farmers Immersion, a sliding-scale farmshare CSA, and Youth Food Justice leadership training, Soul Fire Farm is part of a global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, and end food apartheid. And now, with the new book Farming While Black, Soul Fire Farm extends that work by offering the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim our rightful place of dignified agency in the food system. Join us to learn how you too can be part of the movement for food sovereignty and help build a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community.
This keynote is co-sponsored by Midnight Kitchen, Qpirg Concordia | GRIP Concordia QPIRG | GRIP McGill, & Jardins de la Résistance

AUTHOR BIO: Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol educator, farmer, author, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil for twenty years and organizing for an anti-racist food system for fifteen years. She currently serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a people-of-color led project that works to dismantle racism in the food system. She has been recognized by the Soros Equality Fellowship, NYSHealth Emerging Innovator Awards, and Fulbright Distinguished Awards, among others.

You can preview Leah's book in her conversation with Civil Eats here: https://civileats.com/2018/11/02/farming-while-black-is-a-guidebook-to-dismantle-systemic-racism/

Monday December 10 2018 / 5:30-7:30pm / 3471 rue Peel

HoliGAY Support Dinner

Hey friends of MK!
For some, going “home" for the holidays can be a big stressor. If you feel any anxiety, fear or concern around the holiday season- we at Midnight Kitchen would like to invite you to a dinner in support and celebration of you in all your fabulousness!
This event was created with racialized students and those whose families do not accept their sexuality, gender identity or expression in mind, but we welcome anyone who feels they need some support!
Your host will be Nat, & while they don’t claim to have all the answers for how to deal with these things - they know some strategies that make things easier :)
We will offer a delicious dinner, a couple of chill activities, and potentially some take home surprises.

Participation is capped at 20 and there is a link for registration on our Facebook event, or email us for more info. If you change your mind about attending please cancel your registration so there's room for someone else.

Wishing you all the best,
MK Collective

Friday November 30 2018 / 12pm / 3471 rue Peel

Lunch n' Learn! Food Politics from Campus to Community

Wednesday November 14 2018 / 6pm / Arts Building, RM 260

Community Works: Panel Discussion on Localized Poverty

MSA McGill Presents a Panel Discussion on localized poverty.
In collaborations with Project Genesis, Midnight Kitchen and The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW).

Join us for an informal panel discussion to explore the work that is being done by the participating community based organizations (described below), and take part in an engaging dialogue addressing topics relating to local poverty, food justice, social housing, marginalization and more.
And learn about how you can get involved within your local community!

Date Wednesday, November 14 2018
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Location: Arts Building rm. 260

Friday October 12 2018 / 12pm / 3471 rue peel

Lunch n’ Learn - Intuitive Eating with Lisa Rutledge

Lisa is an intuitive & mindful eating expert, weight inclusive & non-diet dietitian. She helps people reignite their relationship with food and their body. Giving hope that there are solutions to your food and health worries is her passion. She works with people who are struggling to ditch diets, feel better in their body and rediscover joy & peace with food and eating.

She blogs, counsels people virtually and in-person as well as shares her non-traditional (radical?) nutrition and food view with the media to give diet culture a run for it’s money! She is an intuitive eating expert, weight neutral & non-diet dietitian and truly believes that all foods fit into a healthy and happy lifestyle. She has unique personal experiences that help her understand the struggles we face with dieting and changing our food habits.

This event is happening on October 12, 2018: please RSVP on Facebook!

Friday September 28 2018 / 12:30pm / 3471 rue peel

Lunch n’ Learn - Herbalism 101, with Blueberry Jams

Our first workshop of the semester!
This workshop will be preceded by a tour of our garden and some harvesting. Lunch will be served.

“If you know how to cook, you can make effective herbal remedies. Even if you are a novice in the kitchen, you can still make great herbal remedies” - Rosemary Gladstar
In this workshop, participants will learn about different methods for making herbal preparations. We will cover herbal infusions, decoctions, infused oils, salves & balms, tinctures & vinegars, hydrosols, and best practices.
This workshop is aimed at beginners and intermediates (who are looking to troubleshoot & discover how another kitchen herbalist crafts).
Participants will get a zine to take home as well as herbal preparations made during the workshop.
Pamela is a disabled queer settler, artist, activist, crafter, keen fermenter, community organizer, and sometimes scholar. The kitchen and working with and around food is what Pamela considers her hearth. Her project, Blueberryjams , offers a variety of crafted products, penned texts, and skillshares with a focus on DIY, radical home economics, and herbalism through an emphasis on sustainability, creativity, and community. Everything made by hand, with heart.

Make Your Own Vegan Cheese!

THURSDAY JUNE 7 2018 / 6 PM – 9 PM / 3471 Peel St, basement

This workshop will supply an introduction to vegan cheese making and culturing. We will go over making your own probiotics and culturing seed- and nut-based cheese and yogurt. We will also go over alternatives to nut free cheese such as using soy milk and sunflower seeds. Learn to create your own vegan yogurt and cheese, from strong smoked cheddar to gooey mozzarella!

Facilitator bio:
Sophia Banks is a vegan chef based in Montreal. She has worked in professional kitchens for almost 20 years. Sophia currently owns and operates Vegan Canteen which is a home cooked vegan meal delivery service and catering company. Sophia has run several vegetarian and vegan kitchens and has years of experience working with organic certifications.