Upcoming events and classes.
Holiday Forest Fair Mushroom Cooking Demo
Forest-themed vendors for the nature lovers, demonstrations, Santa, face-painting, and more! Free event. More info to come.
Northeast Farmers Market Cooking Demo (Copy)
Join us at the COOLEST farmers market in town. Great vendors. Delicious food onsite. Mushrooms year round. Hot sauce. Beautiful vinegars.
Always a special event.
Cooking demo featuring market ingredients. It’s basically a free cooking class. Join us— learn something, bring your friends, make some memories on a Sunday morning.
Introduction to How Foods Fight Diabetes
Introduction to How Food Fight Diabetes
Learn how a plant-based diet reduces the risk of diabetes and can greatly benefit those who have been diagnosed with the disease. Each class offers a cooking demonstration and provides samples of delicious, health-promoting meals, along with easy and affordable recipes.
Northeast Farmers Market Cooking Demo
Join us at the COOLEST farmers market in town. Great vendors. Delicious food onsite. Mushrooms year round. Hot sauce. Beautiful vinegars.
Always a special event.
Cooking demo featuring market ingredients. It’s basically a free cooking class. Join us— learn something, bring your friends, make some memories on a Sunday morning.
Let's Beat Breast Cancer: Introduction to how foods fight cancer
In this introductory session, we'll explore the relationship between diet and cancer prevention. You'll learn how certain foods and nutrients can play a crucial role in either promoting or discouraging the growth of cancer cells, with a focus on breast cancer.
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Certified Food For Life Instructor, Jodi Gruhn, will showcase health-promoting dishes that are both delicious and easy to prepare.
This class is perfect for cancer survivors, their families, friends, and anyone looking to prevent breast cancer. Join us to discover how what you eat can be a powerful ally in your health journey.
(These classes are not intended for individuals currently going through cancer treatment.)
Meet Your Instructor - Jodi Gruhn, NBH-WHC:
Founder of Borealle, Jodi is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Plant Based Nutrition and Cooking Expert, and licensed Food For Life instructor with the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine. Jodi is the real deal-her genuine commitment shines through with classes that are lively and engaging, offering a fun and intuitive path to achieving health goals.
Based on the Food For Breast Cancer Prevention and Survival by Neal Barnard, MD,
What’s on the menu?
Homestyle Squash and Pinto Beans
Easy Bean Salad
Chocolate Mousse
Recipes, links, tips, tools and more in class.
Why give us 90 minutes?
Award-winning nutrition education and cooking class program.
Innovative, evidence-based approach to combat diet-related chronic diseases.
Crafted by physicians, nurses, and registered dietitians.
Ask questions about plant-based cooking (substitutes, ingredients, you name it!)
Budget-friendly recipes for a low-fat, plant-based lifestyle.
Supportive environment and community
Based on the Food For Breast Cancer Prevention and Survival by Neal Barnard, MD,
What are you waiting for? This class is FREE!!!!
Hen Fest! Mushroom Foraging Workshop & Wild Food Experience
Maitake (also known as Hen of the Woods) is a prized mushroom you’ll find in many fine dining establishments —and luckily for us, it can also be found right here in the forest each fall. With its rich, earthy flavor and versatility in the kitchen, maitake makes the perfect centerpiece for a seasonal gathering. And we have the perfect place to do just that – Big Rock Creek in St. Criox Falls Wisconsin. We’d love for you to join us in celebrating this incredible mushroom!
Your day will include:
Mushroom education and identification tips
A guided hunt for fall mushrooms
Live cooking demo
A delicious maitake-focused lunch
Creative ways to cook and preserve maitake
Happy Hour with more maitake tastings and optional cocktails
The Fabulous Chef Jodi with Borealle will be creating the dishes
and Jaime will be educating and leading the mushroom hunt.
While nature never guarantees what we’ll find, there’s a good chance you’ll head home with some valuable mushrooms—and plenty of inspiration.
Reserve your Maitake Experience today!
Spots are limited and expected to fill quickly.
Itinerary
10:30–12:15 Educational Presentation & Cooking Demo
12:15–1:30 Lunch
1:30–3:30 Mushroom Hunt
3:30-4:00 Mushroom Review
4:00–5:00 Happy Hour with maitake snacks (cocktails available for purchase)
Important Notes
This is a rain-or-shine event. In the case of severe weather, you’ll receive credit toward a future event.
A day pass is required for this location and can be purchased here.
This will be a plant-based (vegan) experience. Please email us with any food restrictions before registering so we can confirm accommodations.
Be prepared to walk off-trail on uneven terrain.
Mushroom finds are never guaranteed.
If minimum attendance isn’t met, the event may be cancelled and refunds provided.
No refunds for cancellations, but with at least one week’s notice, we will provide credit to a future event.
Let's Beat Breast Cancer Rally
Join local experts, community advocates, and breast cancer survivors for a special gathering in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Featuring a unique blend of percussionists from local bands to “Beat the Drum” for breast cancer prevention, all are invited to enjoy the music and raise your voice to support this lifesaving message!
Northeast Farmers Market Cooking Demo
I’m doing demos at one of the Twin Cities COOLEST Farmers Markets!
Quality food and experiences available to all people, along with a focus on sustainability and building a zero waste environment. What could be better???
Join me! We’re making simple, delicious, climate friendly foods!
Women's Mushroom Foraging Workshop & Wild Food Experience (Chicks Only Mushroom Event)
Bring your mom, grandma, daughter, sisters, aunties, nieces, girlfriends, or just yourself to this “Chicks Only” day! Even though no guys are allowed, we will be searching for “fun-gis.” We might even find an Old Man of the Woods.
Besides learning about mushrooms, we will have tons of fun and meet new friends. We will also discuss tree identification, plants, and berries we come across while we are in the woods. A delicious picnic lunch with wild mushrooms will prepared by the fabulous Borealle. Lunch will not only be delicious, but it will also be 100% fresh, healthy, and vegan.
Northeast Farmers Market Cooking Demo
I’m doing demos at one of the Twin Cities COOLEST Farmers Markets!
Quality food and experiences available to all people, along with a focus on sustainability and building a zero waste environment. What could be better???
Join me! We’re making simple, delicious, climate friendly foods!
Northeast Farmers Market Cooking Demo
I’m doing demos at one of the Twin Cities COOLEST Farmers Markets!
This weekend: Herby Asparagus Crostini and Sweet or Savory Deviled Strawberries
Quality food and experiences available to all people, along with a focus on sustainability and building a zero waste environment. What could be better???
Join me! We’re making simple, delicious, climate friendly foods!
Scrappy & Sweet: A Mother’s Day Cooking Demo with Chef Jodi Gruhn
Join us at Tare Market NE for a cozy, creative evening in the kitchen with local chef Jodi Gruhn!
In the spirit of Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating the scrappy, resourceful, and oh-so-delicious ways moms (and all of us) make magic with what’s on hand. Jodi will be showcasing how to use Tare Market ingredients, plus those common ingredients every Mom has in her panty, to create a delicious meal.
6:30–7:30pm Cooking Demo
7:30–8:00pm Private Shopping Time for Attendees
Sample Jodi’s creations, learn some clever kitchen tips on how to elongate the life of your produce and store your food properly, and stick around afterward to shop the ingredients featured in the demo.
Tickets: $10 — includes a $5 coupon to use in-store during the event!
Whether you're cooking for Mom, with Mom, or just in the mood to be inspired, we’d love to have you join us.
The Vegan Eats & Arts Market
A year-round, all vegan market of Twin Cities small businesses.
The Vegan Eats & Arts Market features vegan food and drinks, gifts and goods, arts and more. Join us monthly at The Legacy Building for a rotating variety of local small businesses, artists, and artisans.
Community of Wellness Symposium and Gala
Discover how lifestyle medicine can help us achieve true prosperity by thriving physically and emotionally at personal and community level. Do not miss this event!
Exclusive Insights and Expert Speakers:
Lifestyle medicine is the foundation for treating the root causes of many preventable and even reversible chronic diseases. Our expert-led sessions will cover essential topics, including:
Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention
Hormonal Health for men and women
Diabetes Management and Prevention
Food Addiction and Emotional Health
Nutrition and Glymphatic System Function
Exercise and Community Wellness Action Plans
Energy Medicine and Sound Bowl Healing for Emotional Health
Community Wellness Action plans
Experience engaging activities like "Walk With A Doc," morning meditation, sound bathing, networking, and stretching sessions at the state-of-the-art Mayo Civic Center.
Enjoy wholesome plant-based breakfast and lunch featuring recipes from presenters that will keep you energized throughout the two-day event.
Professional admission tickets include 1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) through Winona State University. CEUs are awarded to only those participants who attend both days April 17 & 18, 2025. (Total: 16 clock hours = 1.6 CEU)
Winona State’s CEUs are awarded through the Minnesota State College and University System. These CEUs may not be recognized by all licensing authorities. It is the responsibility of professionals to contact their specific licensing authorities to verify if the entity will honor the clock hours or CEUs. If questions, contact continuingeducation@winona.edu
Northeast Farmers Market Cooking Demo
I’m doing demos at one of the Twin Cities COOLEST Farmers Markets!
Quality food and experiences available to all people, along with a focus on sustainability and building a zero waste environment. What could be better???
Join me! We’re making simple, delicious, climate friendly foods!
The Vegan Eats & Arts Market
A year-round, all vegan market of Twin Cities small businesses.
The Vegan Eats & Arts Market features vegan food and drinks, gifts and goods, arts and more. Join us monthly at The Legacy Building for a rotating variety of local small businesses, artists, and artisans.
The Vegan Eats & Arts Market
A year-round, all vegan market of Twin Cities small businesses.
The Vegan Eats & Arts Market features vegan food and drinks, gifts and goods, arts and more. Join us monthly at The Legacy Building for a rotating variety of local small businesses, artists, and artisans. Our spring season begins March 14th, and continues the 2nd Friday of each month, 4- 7 pm.
Northeast Farmers Market Cooking Demo
I’m doing demos at one of the Twin Cities COOLEST Farmers Markets!
Quality food and experiences available to all people, along with a focus on sustainability and building a zero waste environment. What could be better???
Join me! We’re making simple, delicious, climate friendly foods!
Be Alive 25
Feeling Stuck in the Mid-Life Maze?
Be Alive 25 is an evening designed for midlife women who are ready to stop settling and start thriving.
Through empowering keynotes, engaging discussions, and meaningful connections, you’ll uncover the tools and insights you need to overcome resistance, embrace change, and live more fully today - while building a foundation for a vibrant future.
Foods For a Healthy Heart
Plant-based foods are beneficial to the brain and may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and other formsof dementia. A decline in brain health is not an inevitable part of aging. But how we eat and live can help us protect our memory and stay sharp into old age. In this Food for Life: Power Foods for the Brain class, you will learn strategies for maintaining memory and improving brain function including how to prepare brain health-promoting meals.
Vegan Holiday Makers Market
A collaborative Holiday market of local, small business vegan bakers, creators, artisans, and craftsmen offering vegan food and drink, gifts and goods. The event will feature items ranging from cheese-stuffed pretzels and sweets, to jewelry and beauty products, to art. Free entry.
The Legacy Building, 4024 East 46th Street., 4pm-7pm
The Market will also feature a raffle to win an assortment of local, small-business produced prizes, proceeds to benefit the Animal Rights Coalition. Additionally, the market will host a vegan food drive to benefit Flourish Market, Minnesota’s only plant-based food shelf. Donations must be non-perishable, unexpired, in original packaging, and (of course) vegan!
Holiday Forest Fair Mushroom Cooking Demo
Forest-themed vendors for the nature lovers, demonstrations, Santa, face-painting, and more! Free event. More info to come.
Winter Holidays: Plant-Based Sides and Desserts. Help is on the way! (Online Class)
Not sure what to serve the vegan/plant-based person celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanza with you? Plant-based recipes, tips and tricks to make everyone feel included.
Thanksgiving: Plant-based sides and desserts. Help is on the way! (Online Class)
Not sure what to serve the vegan/plant-based person celebrating Thanksgiving with you? Plant-based recipes, tips and tricks to make everyone feel included.
How Foods Fight Cancer
This class helps participants to make the critical connection between diet and the risk of developing various forms of cancer.
With a focus on low-fat plant-based nutrition, participants develop an understanding of specific foods and nutrients that either promote or discourage cancer development. The class features an interactive, hands-on cooking session of delicious, health-promoting dishes, along with handouts of easy and affordable recipes participants can prepare at home.
Cancer survivors, their family and friends, as well as anyone looking to prevent cancer are welcome. This class is not meant for individuals currently undergoing cancer treatment.
Let's Beat Breast Cancer Rally
Join local experts, community advocates, and breast cancer survivors for a special gathering in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Featuring a unique blend of percussionists from local bands to “Beat the Drum” for breast cancer prevention, all are invited to enjoy the music and raise your voice to support this lifesaving message!
Twin Cities Veg Fest
Twin Cities Veg Fest is the biggest vegan festival of its kind in the Midwest.
Afar magazine featured us as one of the seven best festivals in the world.
The festival is ADA accessible and strives to be a zero-waste event.
We expect to welcome over 5,000 attendees and look forward to seeing you there!
V-Fest
Music, Health, Art, Wellness, Yoga—- All plant-based.
Check out the website for more details: https://vfestmn.com