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Taste of Puerto Rico
Cooking Class for Ages 16+
Tuesday, November 10th | 6:00-8:30pm

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Bring a little island flavor to your kitchen! Experience the warmth, flavor, and rich culinary traditions of Puerto Rico in this hands-on cooking class with Chef Mona, where you will prepare a rich & savory Pollo Guisado (Braised Chicken Stew) , Golden Yellow Rice, and irresistible Tostones.  Mona always brings more than just cooking tips; learn about the connection between food, history, and culture as you prepare this menu that you will want to recreate at home again & again. Discover why these dishes remain favorites at gatherings across the island and throughout the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Menu:

  • Pollo Guisado (A comforting chicken stew that reflects the island’s blend of Spanish, African, and Indigenous Taíno influences)
  • Arroz Amarillo (Puerto Rico’s iconic yellow rice, seasoned with sofrito and spices that are at the heart of countless family recipes)
  • Crispy Tostones (Crispy twice-fried green plantains, a Caribbean staple enjoyed throughout Puerto Rico and a testament to the island’s African and tropical culinary heritage)

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Kitchen Safety
  • Knife Skills
  • Developing deep flavors with simple ingredients
  • Next-level rice
  • How to make the perfect tostones

What you’ll take home:

  • Knowledge of the vibrant food traditions in this tropical corner of the USA
  • Any leftovers from class
  • Recipes and instructions

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16+
  • Great for beginner to advanced cooks
  • Students work in pairs – sign up with a friend!

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

Instructor: Mona Bronson-Fuqua 

Supply List

 

All Supplies Included

 

Cast Iron Cooking
Chicken and Seasonal Veggie Fajitas!
Cooking Class for Ages 16+
Saturday, October 3rd 10:30am-12:30pm

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So Easy and Delicious, You’ll Want to Make it Again and Again
Chef Leigh turns up the heat to create bold, fresh chicken (or vegetarian) fajitas using the power of cast iron, fresh vegetables, and a flavor‑packed homemade seasoning. Pull it all together with Cilantro Brown Rice, Fresh Salsa, and Creamy Guacamole!
In this fun, interactive class, we’ll cook together while building confidence with cast iron cooking techniques and knife skills—all while layering succulent flavors into a meal that’s healthy, satisfying, and endlessly adaptable. You’ll whip up enough to take some home for another meal!

Menu:

  • Fajitas with Fresh Veggies (vegetarian options – let us know when you register)
  • Fresh Salsa
  • Guacamole
  • Brown Rice with Cilantro

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Kitchen Safety
  • Balancing Flavor and Nutrition
  • Seasonal Flavors
  • Cast-iron cooking
  • Knife Skills

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 16+
  • Great for beginner to advanced cooks
  • You will work in pairs – sign up with a friend!

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

Click here for information on our Health and Safety Policy.

Instructor: Leigh Gorman

Supply List

All Supplies Included

 

Garden Planning with Jennifer Smith!
Saturdays , 9:00 a.m.
October 10th & October 17th
Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Love gardening, but need a little help in the planning process to design a new garden or update an existing garden?

In this two day class, design your own garden! Award-winning garden designer Jennifer Smith will teach you how to design your next garden.

What You’ll Learn:

Site evaluation, plant selection, soil assessment, basic garden design principles, how to achieve continuous blooms in the garden, create winter interest in the garden, and garden care considerations.

What You Leave With:

A scaled drawing of their new garden with plant list.

Jennifer Smith: (information)

“Smith co-taught a UC-DAAP course (Herbaceous plants and the New Perennial Movement), has spoken for many garden clubs, The Midwest Native Plant Society, Tri-State green industry conference, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Native Plant Symposium) to name a few.
Some of her gardens have won awards and was featured on the CNC nature plant garden tour.”

 

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Garden Talk Series: Planting for Pollinators
Saturday , 12:00 p.m.
October 24th
Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Learn how to plant a garden for pollinators, be it in the sun or shade.

What You’ll Learn:

Sire evaluation, soil prep, plant selection and arrangement, and garden care. How to design a winter garden and a soft landing garden.

What You Leave With:

A clear understanding of how to plant a garden that will be a haven for pollinators and birds. We will review design ideas, designers to follow-study, books to read and of course great plants to consider.

Jennifer Smith: (information)

“Smith co-taught a UC-DAAP course (Herbaceous plants and the New Perennial Movement), has spoken for many garden clubs, The Midwest Native Plant Society, Tri-State green industry conference, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Native Plant Symposium) to name a few.
Some of her gardens have won awards and was featured on the CNC nature plant garden tour.”

 

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Weekend Watercolors
Saturday, 9:00 am
September 26 – November 14 | Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Enjoy a relaxing Saturday while learning the art of watercolor painting. Learn useful techniques such as layering, creating luminosity, and working with white space. All levels are welcome in this casual class.

What You’ll Learn:

In a group learning environment, you will be working on your own current self-pace artwork, and will have the opportunity for one-on-one guidance, feedback on your artwork, feedback guidance including color mixing, brush techniques, and drawing, and inspiration form the instructor.

What You’ll Leave With:

By the end of each class meeting you will have more confidence in the progression of your current watercolor artwork.

Instructor:  Ken Buck 

Supply List

Winsor Newton or Daniel Smith colors tubes

  • Permanent Alizarin Crimson
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Cadmium Red
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Transparent Yellow
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Cobalt Turquoise
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Hooker’s Green Dark
  • Indigo
  • Permanent Mauve
  • Permanent Magenta
  • Permanent Sap Green
  • Rhodonite Genuine
  • Raw Sienna
  • Sepia
  • Phthalo Green

Additional Watercolor Supplies:

  • 4 H pencil and kneaded eraser
  • Watercolor paper; 140 pound to 300-pound, rough/cold press (individual sheets* or watercolor blocks)
  • Two plastic water containers
  • Rags or paper towels
  • Masking tape
  • A flat watercolor palette with multiple wells
  • Flat watercolor brushes, mop brush, and a script brush or liner

Please bring your own photographic images for reference each week.

*If using individual sheets of paper you will need a drawing board to attach the paper to.

Intermediate Wheel Throwing
Thursdays, 6:00pm
September 24 – November 12 | Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Create challenging functional, decorative, and sculptural forms using the pottery wheel. Develop various throwing techniques introduced from previous beginning-level throwing classes.

What You’ll Learn:

In a small group learning environment, you will learn step-by-step instructions to improve existing wheel-throwing skills, create more advanced forms, and explore advanced glazing methods by working on teacher-led projects and practices. With these new skills, you will learn how to throw the three basic forms on a potter’s wheel such as: plates, lidded forms, throwing larger forms, more unique shaping techniques, and surface manipulation.

We prefer that students have taken a couple beginner wheel-throwing classes before registering for this class.

***(Students are required to follow the instructor’s curriculum. Only work produced from that curriculum will be fired.)***

What You’ll Leave With:

Depending on the disciplinary skill of the student, a student may leave with 7-12 completed pieces of pottery from 25lb bag of clay.

(Students will submit glazed works for final firing on the last class of the session. Students will be contacted, via email, once their pottery has finished firing and available for pick up on a later date)

Instructor:  Harmony Maine 

Supply List

Students will need to bring:

  1. Own set of clay or throwing tools
  2. Large cleaning sponge
  3. Small clay work sponge
  4. Approx. 2ft x 2ft piece of Canvas
  5. Small bucket for cleaning and tool storage
  6. (Optional) Small/detail paintbrushes for glazing
  7. (Optional) Plastic bags for wrapping work

Students will be provided:

  1. Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
  2. (1x) bag of clay

Links to Class Required Items: (These are recommendations, not the required brands

  1. Clay / Throwing Tools
  2. Large Cleaning Sponge
  3. Small clay work sponge
    • We recommend buying a basic toolkit with a small sponge included.
  4. Small Bucket for cleaning
    • Any clean, small to medium sized bucket will do.
  5. Canvas
    • We recommend a minimum of 2ft x 2ft piece.

Garden Talk Series: Gravel Gardening
Saturday , 12:00 p.m.
November 7th
Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Learn how to garden a new way, in gravel!

What You’ll Learn:

Derek Jarman, Beth Chatto, and Jeff Epping, just to name a few, show us how to create breathtaking gardens in gravel.

What You Leave With:

Tricky spots, contaminated soils, urban settings, low budgets, or simply a desire to garden a different way, gravel gardening is a beautiful, pollinator friendly way to garden. History of gravel gardens, review beautiful gardens to inspire, and discuss construction, planting, and care of your new gravel garden.

Jennifer Smith: (information)

“Smith co-taught a UC-DAAP course (Herbaceous plants and the New Perennial Movement), has spoken for many garden clubs, The Midwest Native Plant Society, Tri-State green industry conference, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Native Plant Symposium) to name a few.
Some of her gardens have won awards and was featured on the CNC nature plant garden tour.”

 

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Handful of Stitches: Introduction to Embroidery
Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
October 24 – November 14
Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Do you want to learn hand embroidery but find the number of stitches intimidating? Then join us as we explore a handful of stitches!

Learn to create beautiful designs in hand embroidery with a handful of stiches. Students will learn the basics of hand embroidery, including how to create their own design. We’ll take inspiration from modern embroidery artists who create traditional and not so traditional works of hand embroidery while we will stitch in 4″ hoops.

What You’ll Learn:

Attendees will learn how to design for hand embroidery, loading fabric in a hoop, threading the needle, separating threads, using multiple thread colors with each stitch, handful of very useful and versatile stitches, and how to create depth and texture with stitches

What You’ll Leave With:

This four-week class week class offers ample time for in classroom instruction, insights and inspirations from accomplished hand embroidery artists, a finished embroidery piece in a 4″ hoop of the students creation- a one-of-a-kind piece of work.

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Recording in Stitching
Thursday, 6:00 p.m.
October 22 – November 12
Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Hand embroidery is often used to make a record of one’s observations: the temperature, number of bees in the garden, interactions with others, pages read in a book, one’s mood- what that person finds most important to them. This 30-day stitching practice guides students to focus on something of particular importance to them, something worth recording in stitches. It is a mediative practice, a study in daily observations, permission to set aside each day just for oneself to observe and stitch, and a social/community experience.

In this month-long stitches practice we will cultivate a daily practice of taking time to reflect, observe, and record what is important to you. We will also learn new ways to stitch, how to work in found objects, and express ourselves with hand embroidery. This class is meditative, part social, and part creative exercise.

What You’ll Learn:

We will learn a variety of stitches to use to record something of note and importance to each student. We will learn to slow our pace, be observant and take the time to record, each day, what we observe, feel or experience. Each day the students stitch to record their observations, a stitched diary if you will. At the end of the month, each student will have a stitched record of what they observed, felt, or experienced- a story in stitches. Students will learn to gift themselves time to simply be. How many of can say we take enough time for ourselves? Not Many! We will learn ways to record our observations with our stitches.

What You’ll Leave With:

A thirty day stitched journal, if you will, a record of observations for a month created with hand stiches that tells the story of what we learned with our observations and a new practice of giving ourselves permission to take time for ourselves. Your personal story in stitches, and a new practice of setting time aside, each day, to stitch and be present.

A thirty day record,

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Beginner Wheel Throwing
Saturdays, 12:00 pm
September 26 – November 14 | Ages 16-99+

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Class:

Experience of magic of working in clay as you create and glaze functional, decorative, and sculptural forms using a pottery wheel. Students will develop a basic understanding of how to operate a pottery wheel as they work on teacher-led projects and practices.

What You’ll Learn:

In a small group learning environment, you will learn step-by-step instructions of the fundamentals of how to use a potter’s wheel such as wedging, centering, pulling, shaping, and finishing. With these skills, you will learn how to throw the three basic forms on a potter’s wheel: a cylinder, a bowl, and a simple vase form. You will also learn about basic glazing finishing skills for completing your pottery.

***(Students are required to follow the instructor’s curriculum. Only work produced from that curriculum will be fired.)***

What You’ll Leave With:

Depending on the disciplinary skill of the student, a student may leave with 7-10 completed pieces of pottery from 25lb bag of clay.

(Students will submit glazed works for final firing on the last class of the session. Students will be contacted, via email, once their pottery has finished firing and available for pick up on a later date)

Instructor:  Emery Cotten

Supply List

Students will need to bring:

  1. Own set of clay or throwing tools
  2. Large cleaning sponge
  3. Small clay work sponge
  4. Approx. 2ft x 2ft piece of Canvas
  5. Small bucket for cleaning and tool storage
  6. (Optional) Small/detail paintbrushes for glazing
  7. (Optional) Plastic bags for wrapping work
  8. Any sized notebook

Students will be provided:

  1. Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
  2. (1x) bag of clay

Links to Class Required Items: (These are recommendations, not the required brands

  1. Clay / Throwing Tools
  2. Large Cleaning Sponge
  3. Small clay work sponge
    • We recommend buying a basic toolkit with a small sponge included.
  4. Small Bucket for cleaning
    • Any clean, small to medium sized bucket will do.
  5. Canvas
    • We recommend a minimum of 2ft x 2ft piece.