Events

Events that fall into the general categories of food/drink/cooking/gardening/nutrition. Always double check with the host as things can and do change. Have something to add? Email me at wendy (at) thelocalcook (dot) com.

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West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

Wild Rice Camp Demo Event Details

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11:00 am2:00 pm

Manoomin is a nutritious grain that was once widely harvested in Michigan by the Anishinabe people. The Traditional knowledge of harvesting, processing, and re-seeding is now being taught at wild rice camps across the Great Lakes Region to bring back this important tradition to regions where it has been lost or forgotten. Barb Barton, who was taught wild ricing by Roger LaBine (Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) and Charlie Fox (Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior Indians), will be leading a rice camp demonstration that replicates the traditional fall gathering. Wild Rice will be processed from start to finish and includes parching, dancing or jigging, winnowing, and cleaning. Those participating in the in processing will get to take a small amount of rice home (depending on how much is processed during the camp). There will also be demonstrations on making ricing sticks, push poles, stirring paddles, and how rice is gathered. Additionally, Barb will share fascinating life history information about the species and its habitat. Wild rice and other wild foods will be available for purchase at the event, as well as free brochures and posters on wild rice.

We will also be sharing some dishes made with wild rice and other native foods.

Wild Rice Camp Demo

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West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

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West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

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"Local Flavors" Dinner - The Starving Artist @ Leonard at Logan House Event Details

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

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West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

Bar Divani Wine Social Event Details

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6:30 pm
Bar Divani
15 Iona SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

See Bar Divani's website for this week's theme.

Bar Divani Wine Social

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West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

Green Drinks Holland Event Details

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5:00 pm7:00 pm
CitySen Lounge
Main floor of CityFlats Hotel
61 East 7th Street
Holland, MI
USA

Visit CitySen Lounge, located on CityFlats Hotel's main level, for the monthly gathering of Green Drinks Holland — a group of eco-conscious social butterflies who love to meet, mingle, and make merry. The environment, architecture, design, and social causes are just a few topics open for debate at 5:30 on the first Thursday of each month — although there is nothing on the agenda except for fun. Exclusive appetizers and drinks will also be available for your savoring and sipping pleasure.

Green Drinks Holland

The Great Pumpkin Party at HopCat Event Details

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6:00 pm
Hop Cat
25 Iona
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

Attention Pumpkin Beer freaks ! Ichabod, Screamin' Pumpkin and Jaw Jacker on tap - Chief Beer Geek tells us that there are likely to be a few more added to the list. We tap into them at 6!

The Great Pumpkin Party at HopCat

Fair Food: A Recipe for Change (Traverse City) Event Details

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West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

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Grand Opening: Nourish Organic Market Event Details

VanderFest Cider & Beer Festival Event Details

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4:00 pm10:00 pm
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Local First Fork Fest Event Details

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5:00 pm9:00 pm
Romence Gardens
265 Lakeside NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Join us for an incredible evening at Romence Gardens featuring local restaurants, farms, grocers, bakeries, breweries and more!
PLUS: Live music by The Fauxgrass Quartet

Enjoy food and beverage samples from these Local First members:

- Amore Trattoria Italiana - Art of the Table - Beanilla - Bearboy Gourmet - Brewery Vivant - Cambridge House - Creswick Farms - Derby Station - Doorganics - Dorothy & Tony's Gourmet Kettle Corn - Earthkeeper Farms - The Gilmore Collection - Graydon's Crossing - Herbrucks Poultry Ranch - Little Pearl Cupcake - MadCap Coffee Co. - Making Thyme Kitchen - Ninth Bridge Market - Pietro's - Sietsema Orchards - The Starving Artist - Twisted Rooster - West Michigan Co-Op

Limited space available - purchase your tickets today! $25.

Local First Fork Fest

Bar Divani Wine Social Event Details

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6:30 pm
Bar Divani
15 Iona SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

See Bar Divani's website for this week's theme.

Bar Divani Wine Social

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Hobnob & Hops at Frederik Meijer Gardens Event Details

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Hoptoberfest Event Details

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Hop Cat
25 Iona
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

From HopCat: So, since Oktoberfest is mostly in September, which is kinda confusing, we decided to throw our own damn BeerFest. We invited all the breweries in and around good ole GR to participate (beer list posted when I, ahem, Steve get it), and we lined up some smokin' blues, including Big James and the Chicago Playboys, Stacy Mitchhart, with the legendary Chicago bluesman Lonnie Brooks headlining. If you haven't seen him live, as I have, trust me when I say that your life is not yet complete. We'll have a food tent, oh, and I hear that there's some football game that day? We have you covered with some big screen action in the tent in case the game and the fest overlap. Tix are $10 before the event and can be had online, at HopCat, Founders, Hideout, Schmohz, and Brewery Vivant. NOTE: As this event is primarily about the enjoyment of craft beer, we have limited it to those 21 and over, please and thank you.

Hoptoberfest

Urban Bicycle Tour: Fruit & Nut Trees Event Details

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3:00 pm6:00 pm
Eastown Community Association
415 Ethel SE (just south of Wealthy Street)
Grand Rapids, MI

Join Our Kitchen Table for a 3- to 5- mile ride with stops to identify fruit and nut trees . We will also share recipes for using the nuts we indentify. Good nutrition starts with N-U-T!

More Information: http://www.oktjustice.org/

Urban Bicycle Tour: Fruit & Nut Trees

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Homesteading 101 (Gobles) Event Details

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1:00 pm3:30 pm
Weed Dance Farm
09550 35th Street
Gobles, MI 49055
USA

Class dates and times are Sundays, 1-3:30 p.m. on May 15, June 12, July 17,
August 21, September 11 and October 9.
Class fee for the six months is $175. Print registration form.
Do you want to raise your own food, and travel the path of self sufficiency and living close to the land? Have you always had an independent streak and found pleasure and satisfaction in creating a life that is closely connected to the land, the seasons and your food? Whether you seek to create a urban or country homestead, this class will give you some vital hands on skills on creating and maintaining a homestead and its many facets.

This class will be highly informal and interactive, with lots of hands on learning. In this course you will learn these skills and many more: gardening and producing your own food, season extension through hoop houses and greenhouses, bread making, food preservation methods including drying, canning (both water bath and pressure), fermentation, dairy skills including yogurt making, cheese making, and how to milk and care for a dairy animal (cows and goats), keeping other homestead animals such as ducks, chickens, and pigs, wild food gathering, solar cooking, heating with wood, bees, maple syrup production, fencing, home herbals, and soap making.

You will also receive personal attention on conceptualizing your own homestead and what you want that to entail. You will receive support and the skills to make the creation of your homestead a reality and you will join a support system with other class participants and share life experiences and tips. This is a once a month class, held on Sundays, from 1-3:30 p.m. This class is for beginner students to homesteading.

Homesteading 101 (Gobles)

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Bar Divani Wine Social Event Details

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6:30 pm
Bar Divani
15 Iona SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

See Bar Divani's website for this week's theme.

Bar Divani Wine Social

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Greenbush Brewing Company Kick Off at HopCat Event Details

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6:00 pm
Hop Cat
25 Iona
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

Join us at 6PM as we officially introduce you to Greenbush !
We'll be pouring

Memento Mori (Oktoberfest Ale)
Undertow (Autumn Ale)
Red Bud (Copper/Pale/Wheat)
Closure (Pale Ale), Dunegrass (IPA)
Distorter (Porterish Stout/Stoutish Porter)
Anger (Black IPA)
Retribution (Belgian Hybrid)
1825 (Belgian Strong)
Pain (Imperial Cream Stout)
Exclusive beer brewed just for HopCat (TBD)

Greenbush Brewing Company Kick Off at HopCat

Book Signing with Susan Clemente, author of Michigan's Guide to Local Cooking Event Details

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7:00 pm
Literary Life Bookstore

Literary Life Bookstore is pleased to announce a special event with Susan Clemente, author of Michigan's Guide to Local Cooking. Clemente will be giving a cooking demonstration of a recipe featured in her book, signing purchased copies of the book, and offering tastes of Michigan food and wine. This event will be held at Kitchen Design Studio at 750 Wealthy Street SE, and is free to the public. Beverages will be provided by our wonderful neighbors at Art of the Table, while the new Wealthy Street market, Nourish, will be adding to our list of food ingredients.

Book Signing with Susan Clemente, author of Michigan's Guide to Local Cooking

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Fall Into Michigan @ Ninth Bridge Market Event Details

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11:00 am3:00 pm
Ninth Bridge Market

Be at the Market from 11am-3pm on Saturday October 22nd, for Michigan-themed fall fun for the whole family.

Kids can carve pumpkins or decorate fall cookies, there will be Michigan foods to sample throughout the store from some of our favorite places including Brownwood Farms, Grassfield's Cheese and we will even taste some rare heirloom apples from Sietsema's Apple Orchard.

Don't miss this fun fall event.

Fall Into Michigan @ Ninth Bridge Market

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Herbs 101 (Gobles) Event Details

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1:00 pm3:30 pm
Weed Dance Farm
09550 35th Street
Gobles, MI 49055
USA

Sundays, 1-3:30 p.m. on May 22, June 19, July 24, August 28, September 18, and Oct 16
Class fee for the six months is $175. Print registration form.

This is a once a month class, held on Sundays from 1-3:30 p.m. The class is for beginner students to herbalism, as well as returning students who want hands on experience crafting medicines from the green world around us. Meeting once a month throughout the growing season allows us as a group to witness the seasonal changes the herbs embody. It allows students to learn to identify wild plants in all their growing stages and developments and to really tune into the waxing and waning medicinal energy of each plant and its parts.

The class is highly informal and interactive, and each time we meet we will visit wild and cultivated herbs on the farm and learn their many uses and blessings for the home herbal medicine chest. As a group, we will talk, learn, laugh, and gather herbs. We will share our collective life experience, ask questions, and celebrate connections.

We will learn how and which wild herbs to use for food as well as medicine, in order to bring deeper nourishment into our daily diets. You will learn how to craft herbal medicines such as infusions, teas, tinctures, vinegars, salves, lotions and lip balms. You will learn and create with the herbs as your foremost teacher, and Shawna as a facilitator. We will also learn how to enter into relationship with the green world, how to approach plants and form partnerships, how to give back as well as receive plant blessings and how to grow deeper in relationship with all the wild green plants surrounding us. Emphasis as always, will be approaching herbalism from a Wise Woman Tradition perspective, which is an ancient tradition based on common, local herbs, simple applications, and deep empowerment.

All materials and handouts for the course will be provided, and you will leave with fresh crafted medicines and herbal goodies each class. There will be optional assignments for you to complete on your own to further your learning as well as suggested reading.

Herbs 101 (Gobles)

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Bar Divani Wine Social Event Details

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6:30 pm
Bar Divani
15 Iona SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

See Bar Divani's website for this week's theme.

Bar Divani Wine Social

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Cooking with Lemon Creek Winery (Real Cool Cooking School) Event Details

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6:00 pm9:00 pm
Real Cool Cooking School
735 Washington Avenue
Grand Haven, MI 49417
USA

Lemon Creek is a family owned and operated winery with over twenty-eight different wines made from nineteen different estate grown varietals. Join Lori (from their beautiful Grand Haven tasting room) and me as we create some great seafood dishes to pair with their Michigan wines. $50

Cooking with Lemon Creek Winery (Real Cool Cooking School)

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Bar Divani Wine Social Event Details

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6:30 pm
Bar Divani
15 Iona SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

See Bar Divani's website for this week's theme.

Bar Divani Wine Social

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Restaurant Week GR Event Details

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Grand Rapids, MI
USA

$25 for a 3 course meal. Some restaurants may offer 3 courses for $25 for two meals.

Restaurant Week GR

Green Drinks Holland Event Details

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5:00 pm7:00 pm
CitySen Lounge
Main floor of CityFlats Hotel
61 East 7th Street
Holland, MI
USA

Visit CitySen Lounge, located on CityFlats Hotel's main level, for the monthly gathering of Green Drinks Holland — a group of eco-conscious social butterflies who love to meet, mingle, and make merry. The environment, architecture, design, and social causes are just a few topics open for debate at 5:30 on the first Thursday of each month — although there is nothing on the agenda except for fun. Exclusive appetizers and drinks will also be available for your savoring and sipping pleasure.

Green Drinks Holland

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Ninth Bridge Holiday Showcase Event Details

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Ninth Bridge Market

The holidays are beginning to creep up on us, but you don't have to panic. Ninth Bridge is here to help you with all of your holiday needs.

Join us in the Market on Friday November 4th, as we sample items from our Thanksgiving Menu, offer great holiday gift ideas for hostesses and more, help you find the best wines to pair with your holiday meal, and offer you a last chance to purchase your Creswick Turkey at a special price!

Come Nibble and Sip, and let us take care of everything!

Ninth Bridge Holiday Showcase

Restaurant Week GR Event Details

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Grand Rapids, MI
USA

$25 for a 3 course meal. Some restaurants may offer 3 courses for $25 for two meals.

Restaurant Week GR

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Fenn Valley Wine Maker's Harvest Dinners Event Details

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Fenn Valley
6130 122nd Avenue
Fennville, MI 49408
USA

Each dinner is an elaborate affair you'll not soon forget.

A five course dinner, with each course matched perfectly with wine, you'll discover the importance of food and wine pairings. And you'll leave the dinner filled and armed with a better understanding of food and wine pairing.

The dinners for this year are Nov. 5th, 12th and reservations start Oct 1

More details to come soon.

Fenn Valley Wine Maker's Harvest Dinners

Restaurant Week GR Event Details

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Grand Rapids, MI
USA

$25 for a 3 course meal. Some restaurants may offer 3 courses for $25 for two meals.

Restaurant Week GR

Toast the Season (Traverse City) Event Details

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

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Restaurant Week GR Event Details

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Grand Rapids, MI
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$25 for a 3 course meal. Some restaurants may offer 3 courses for $25 for two meals.

Restaurant Week GR

Toast the Season (Traverse City) Event Details

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle Event Details

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Here's how it works: Users purchase products from our producers on this site during a shopping "window" that begins on the first Saturday of every month and ends on the following Friday. Users then pick up and pay for their orders on Wednesday of the third full week that month at Media Rare. There's an annual fee of $35 (or $100 to become a voting Member).

West Michigan Co-op Shopping Cycle

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