Fall is around the corner – and that means mushroom season. Local mycologist Joseph Zapotosky is an avid forager of wild fungi, but also knows how to cultivate gourmet mushrooms right in your pantry. Join him at the Culinary Arts Studio on National Mushroom Day, Oct 15, for a quick primer on home cultivation as you build two simple kits to take home, for two different varieties of oyster mushrooms, that can provide years of harvests.

Home Mushroom Cultivation
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 10 – 11:30 AM
Make two kits to grow two varieties of your own delicious oyster mushrooms. Learn more

Welcome to Culinary Arts! Orientation
Come to the Culinary Arts Studio and say hello. Interested to know what’s cooking in the kitchen? Join us for a quick tour of the kitchen studio, meet one of our leadership team members, and find out all the ways to get involved in BARN’s most delicious studio.

Monday, Sept. 8, 10 – 10:45 AM

Monday, Sept. 22, 7 – 7:45 PM

Monday, Oct. 13, 10 – 10:45 AM

Monday, Oct. 27, 7 – 7:45 PM

Looking for Volunteer Bakers and Cooks
The Culinary Arts Studio occasionally makes treats for other BARN studio events. If you’re interested in helping out in this way, you can join our Treats Team of avid bakers and cooks. Contact culinary.lead@bainbridgebarn.org if you’re interested.

Fresh Bay Leaves! Check Out the Culinary Garden
The BARN culinary arts studio garden is full of herbs, lettuces, and many small tomatoes with larger ones soon to ripen. Sages, basil, shisos, rosemary, and different thymes are abundant. Instructors, please take advantage of them for your classes. Studio folks, if you need a handful for your home kitchen, please help yourself. The beautiful bay leaf tree next to the building is full of fresh leaves — use them now or dry them for use in winter stews and soups.

We’re starting to think about next year’s garden and how to make it more useful and productive for the BARN Culinary Arts Studio community. We’d like to hear your thoughts and ideas about how it could be more supportive of your needs, wants and classes. Anyone who would like to help out occasionally with garden maintenance and watering, contact Bob Ross.

Speaking of Baking …
If you are a studio member or if  you take a baking class, you can buy specialty flours for sale at our wholesale cost.

  • Trailblazer Bread Flour from Carnsprings Mill of Burlington: $1/pound
  • Whole Grain Bread Flour from Chimacum Grainery: $2/pound
  • Confluence Blend from Chimacum Grainery: $2/pound
  • Spelt from Chimacum Grainery: $2/pound
  • Rye from Chimacum Grainery: $2/pound

If interested, please email culinary.lead@bainbridgebarn.org.

Cook Together at Open Studios
Bring your cooking projects to the Culinary Arts Studio, and you can cook alongside friends in a fully equipped commercial kitchen. The best reason might be this: We provide the dishwasher! Each session is limited to six people. Free for BARN members and just $20 for non-members. Learn more>>