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Making Non-toxic Laundry Detergent, Deodorant, and Toothpaste
Sun, Feb 22
Cokato City Hall
Learn how to replace daily household products with more natural, homemade ones that can save money, too! We will learn how to make laundry soap strong enough to clean a farmer's clothing but gentle enough for kids, deodorant that works for both men and women, and remineralizing toothpaste!
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Repurposing Fabric: Making Winter Hats From Old Sweaters
Mon, Feb 23
Cokato Evangelical Lutheran Church
Brenda Johnson will teach us an easy method for how to "up-cycle" an old sweater to make cozy winter hats! Brenda will also show us how to make a scarf and possibly mittens, depending on time.
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Intro to Soap Making
Sat, Feb 28
Evangelical Lutheran Church Cokato
Uncover the lost art of making homemade soap and the benefits of Tallow in soap. The class will show how a batch of shampoo bars is made with tallow using the cold process soap method. Making homemade soap with lye can seem like a scary endeavor, but we will learn how to do it safely.
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Making Native Seed Balls
Sat, Mar 07
Cokato City Hall
This will be a hands-on workshop where we'll learn how to make clay balls infused with native seed to later be placed in an area where you'd like to see native flowers growing to help our pollinator population. Anyone can participate, but this class will be especially great for kids and families!
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Late Winter Outdoor Sowing Using Clear Gallon Milk Jugs
Sat, Mar 07
Cokato City Hall
Olena Johnson will be back to teach us this easy, low-cost method of starting plants outdoors in late winter in a hands-on workshop. Participants will be able to take home 2-3 plant starts and know how to care for them.
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Making Potato Sausage

This last weekend, 17 participants gathered at the ELC church in Cokato to learn from Heidi and her helpers, husband Bruce and brother Cory, how to make potato sausage. It was a group effort, which is a great way to make it. Heidi provided the ingredients - ground pork, ground beef, potatoes, onion, salt and pepper, and beef casings. Participants and helpers provided the labor - slicing and grinding onions and potatoes, mixing all the ingredients in a large bin, and running t

Jan 141 min read

Mushroom Foraging Hike & Cooking Class

Olena with a Jack o' Lantern mushroom that can glow in the dark Giant Puffball, Hen of the Woods, Chanterelle, Purple Licaria, Artist's Conk, Oyster, and a Jack o' Lantern mushroom that glows in the dark are some of the specimens we found on our short walk through Stanley Eddy Memorial Park on the afternoon of September 28. We were very fortunate both in our discoveries and the gorgeous weather. To be completely honest, I have to admit I had not caught the mushroom foraging b

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Making Potato Sausage

This last weekend, 17 participants gathered at the ELC church in Cokato to learn from Heidi and her helpers, husband Bruce and brother Cory, how to make potato sausage. It was a group effort, which is a great way to make it. Heidi provided the ingredients - ground pork, ground beef, potatoes, onion, salt and pepper, and beef casings. Participants and helpers provided the labor - slicing and grinding onions and potatoes, mixing all the ingredients in a large bin, and running t

Jan 141 min read

Mushroom Foraging Hike & Cooking Class

Olena with a Jack o' Lantern mushroom that can glow in the dark Giant Puffball, Hen of the Woods, Chanterelle, Purple Licaria, Artist's Conk, Oyster, and a Jack o' Lantern mushroom that glows in the dark are some of the specimens we found on our short walk through Stanley Eddy Memorial Park on the afternoon of September 28. We were very fortunate both in our discoveries and the gorgeous weather. To be completely honest, I have to admit I had not caught the mushroom foraging b

Oct 23, 20253 min read

Area Farmers Markets

Support your local farmers by shopping at a local Farmers Market! Be sure to check the link provided with each market to see if the market will be open for any given week. Dassel Farmers Market Fridays 2:30 - 5:30p May thru October Bandstand Park Watch for updates on the Real Life in Dassel/Cokato/Darwin & Kingston Facebook page Friday on the Farm (Dassel) Fridays 10a-4p May thru October https://www.fridayonthefarm.com/ Howard Lake Farmers Market Thursdays 3:00 - 6:00p Start

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Root Cellars: Design, Build, & Operation

On the evening of Earth Day, April 22, 2025, 20 of us gathered at Riverbend Farm in Delano. We were eager to learn more about root cellars, and, thankfully, Greg Reynolds, long-time owner and operator of the farm, was a willing teacher. It was a beautiful day to learn about efficiently storing food with the help of the earth.

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