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Join Chef Kevin Korman in learning imperative cutting techniques to develop your skills in the kitchen, bring the knife you’re comfortable with your favorite cutting board! Chef Kevin will work alongside you to grow your confidence in slicing, dicing, and mincing. Elevate your dishes at home with the advice and training you gain in this class. Beyond the basics, we will show you how to hold and sharpen your knife and how to cut efficiently to reduce waste in your kitchen. We will end the evening cooking up what we sliced into a stew and enjoy it with homemade bread, that you can eat with us or take home.

Please email us if you have any food allergies. workshops@finleyfarmsmo.com.

In this class, Baker Eleanor Taylor will unfold her secrets on how to achieve the perfect butter pie crust. We will focus on the technical attributes of the crust making process from chilling to crimping, cutting, and layering lattice. You will begin to understand the fine details that go into making pie crust to implement in your home kitchen. Learn the many applications of the same crust recipe for a variety of recipes from fruit to custard, or savory combinations. End the class sharing a slice of Eleanor’s pecan pie and take home her prized recipes and a pie crust made especially by you.

Please email us if you have any food allergies. workshops@finleyfarmsmo.com.

Join us at our table for an intimate Valentine’s dinner at The Workshop at Finley Farms! We will start with family-style shareables as Chef Anna works in the kitchen to create a delicious seven-course meal with wine pairings; expect Nordic and South African influences, featuring local ingredients from small businesses and farms in the area. Come slow down with us, make some new friends over dinner, and let us fill your glass.

Once you reserve your ticket, we’ll email you what’s on the menu for the night; let us know if you have any allergies: workshops@finleyfarmsmo.com.

One of the easiest and most effective ways to improve home cooking is by the simple act of making stocks, in this class Chef Anna Davis will teach you how to make homemade vegetables, chicken, and beef stock and discuss the differences between homemade and commercially made broth. You will learn how to preserve your broth for seasons to come, make sauces, and take home a golden oatmilk, calming broth “latte” and a jar of broth that you’ve personally seasoned.

Please email us if you have any food allergies. workshops@finleyfarmsmo.com.

Join Rachel Denbow, well-loved blogger and author of DIY Woven Art in learning the basics of weaving on a loom. Students will receive three hours of instruction and immediate feedback as you learn to warp your artisanal loom, plain weave, add rya knots, stitch soumak, how to avoid the dreaded hourglass shape, and how to achieve a variety of designs using the stitches taught in class.

Price includes a cherry loom and tool set, warp, wooden dowel, tote bag, a wide selection of natural fibers in a variety of colorways, and a full color PDF workbook to reference at home.

Light refreshments will be provided, along with the best kind of company!

Explore the surprising bursts of colors offered up by the most humble of flora, experiment with the variety of colors given from one dye pot, and create your own dye journal to document the process and chronicle the colors of the day. We’ll use both everyday dyestuffs such as yellow onion skins as well as dye extracts found in the midwest and beyond.

You’ll walk away with a trio of cotton market totes, a sampling of fibers dyed in the same vats to study their color intake, and your own dye journal to record what you learn about the various elements needed to shift color along the pH spectrum.

The class will include light refreshments and the best kind of company. Come with a friend and make it even more fun!

*Aprons will be provided in class but please wear clothing and shoes that you wouldn’t mind accidentally getting some color on. Gloves will be provided.

Join Master Mixologist and owner of The Golden Girl Rum Club for a hands-on workshop featuring some celebratory cocktails perfect for a romantic night in. Rogan will introduce you to the bartender’s basic tool spread and help you navigate a simple back bar to produce an impressive spread: something stirred, something shaken and something bubbly. Techniques including syrup making, various cocktail mixing styles and spirit history. Included in the price of the class are three cocktails.

In this class, you will learn how to grow mushrooms outdoors on logs, using basic tools with Farmer Brendan Sinclair. We will discuss the many uses of mushrooms from culinary to health benefits and discover which varieties of mushrooms are most commonly (and most deliciously) used and why. Participants will partake in the preparation of logs for growing and harvesting, plugging their own shiitake mushroom spawn. By the end of class, students will take home their very own log that they’ve prepared for cultivating and leave with the confidence to grow mushrooms in their own backyard!