Events

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Upcoming Spring 2025 Events:

April 18, 4-7: Annual Spring Festival! Celebrate the joys of spring at Field and Fork and enjoy live music, flower u-pick, garden crafts, farmer olympics, and more while learning more about our program! This year we are excited to unveil “Poetry in the Gardens” a public art installation by UF poetry students. You can learn more here! After your visit, you can hop on a tram to visit other growing spaces around Lake Alice, including the Plant Sciences Department Student Gardens, Wilmot Botanical Gardens, and the UF Native Plant Nursery.
March 26, 4-5:30: Cook Like a Chef #3: Raise your Stir-fry Game with Local Vegetables – Chef Fred will lead us through an easy-to-follow game plan for putting together a delicious stir-fry. This hands-on class will provide tips and techniques to develop bright flavors, colors and complementary textures for your next stir-fry. After the class we’ll put together a stir-fried rice dish to sample!
February 26, 4-5:30 at the farm: Cook Like a Chef #2: Classic Italian Soup – Join Chef Fred for an intensive hands-on experience crafting these authentic and soul-warming meals in a bowl. We will prepare two unique recipes, as Chef provides tips and insights to improve your culinary skills and strengthen your kitchen confidence! This class will help you improve your knife skills and learn how to develop the deep and complex flavors that are a hallmark of these soups. Register here.
February 12, Wednesday, 4:00 – 5:30 at the Student Health Center: Paired Up: A Valentines-Inspired Culinary Exploration. Join Chef Fred for an informal cooking demonstration featuring fresh produce from our Field and Fork Farm! In Honor of Valentine’s Day, Chef Fred will discuss and demonstrate the concept of pairing certain ingredients to create harmony and balance in your approach to cooking. Pairings may be complementary or contrasting, and will involve playing with flavors, textures and colors. Chef will prepare a few sample plates to taste and share! Register here.
January 29, Wednesday, 4:00-5:30 at the farm: Cook Like a Chef #1 – Rooted in Flavor: Incorporating Veggies with Pasta – Chef Fred will discuss basic pasta preparation and presentation, and demonstrate the skills and techniques needed to elevate your dish to restaurant quality using farm-fresh vegetables. Register here!

Fall 2024 Events:

October 11, Wednesday, 4-5 pm at the farm – Cook Like a Chef, Pt 1 – Learn to chop, slice, and dice your way into culinary success!
October 25, Wednesday, 4-5 pm at the farm: The Best Black Bean Burger – Join Chef Fred for an exciting food demo where he’ll guide you through crafting the ultimate black bean burger using fresh ingredients from Field & Fork Pantry. Discover insider tips adn techniques to create, assemble, and cook a black bean burger that’s sure to impress your taste buds. Register here!
October 2, Wednesday, 4-5 pm at the farm – Cook Like a Chef – Pt. 2 – Culinary Mis-En-Place: Organize your work space like a pro after this hands-on cooking and technique demo. Registration link coming soon!
October 14, Wednesday, 5:30-6:30pm, Nia Mindful Movement – Join Uf Minfulness for peaceful movement in the nourishing space of the farm. Nia is a low-impact movement technique combining dance, martial arts, and mindfulness. It is adaptable to all fitness levels, enhancing joy, mobility, stability, strength, and well-being in a welcoming, non-judgmental environment. With Sarit Sela.
October 16, Wednesday, 4:30-6:30 pm – Food Week Farm Tour and Picnic – Come for the Farm & Food, stay for the bats!
October 21, Monday, 5;30-6:30 pm at the farm – “Being in Nature” Meditative Walk UF Mindfulness – led stroll around the UF Field & Fork Farm and Gardens and Lake Alice, exploring the area, finding wildlife, and using approaches from shinrin yoku– forest bathing- to relax in nature. We will finish with a reflective writing activity and sharing. With Nina Soyan-Rosenberg.
October 30, Wednesday, 4-5 pm – Cook Like a Chef, Pt. 3 – Sauces, Dressings and Condiments to Up Your Global Flavor Game.
November 13, Wednesday, 4-5 pm – Salad Contest – Use the skills you learned in the Chef Series to create a showstopper salad using veg grown at the farm! Prizes and fame to follow!
November 15, Friday, 4-6 – Annual Open House and Harvest Party – Learn about the work being done at the farm to support our local food system, meet our interns, enjoy farm games and a taste of the harvest!

Recent Past Events

April 19, 2024, 4:30-7:30 pm: Our annual Spring Open House will be part of the larger Spring Festival: Growing Together! event celebrating growing spaces around Lake Alice, including the Plant Sciences Department Student Gardens, Wilmot Botanical Gardens, and the UF Native Plant Nursery. The Field & Fork stop on the tram route will feature music, farm tours, flower u-pick, games, food, and more! Learn more about the event and register here!
April 24, 2024, 4-5 pm at the pantry: Quick Pickling: Round 2! A repeat of Chef Fred’s recent, very popular class, for those of you who missed it!
April 10, 2024, 5:30-7 at the farm: UF Changemakers host a screening of “Kiss the Dirt,” a documentary about the importance of soil to the health of our planet. Enjoy a tour of our fram and our own efforts at respecting and caring for the soil.
April 10, 2024, 4-5 at the pantry: Quick Pickling: It’s a Big Dill! Learn how to whip up sweet and dill pickles, homemade ketchup, and a Bahn Mi sandwich relish to bring some pizzazz to your next barbeque!
March 6, 2024, 4-5pm at the pantry: All About Rice! Discover diverse ways to prepare rice and how to pair with fresh local produce from Chef Fred Cremo. Register here.
Mondays, Feb. 26-March 25, 2024, 5:30-6:30 pm at the farm: UF Mindfulness weekly teaching and practice sessions focused on exploring the many facets of mindfulness. Register here.
February 28, 2024, 4-5 pm at the Farm: Dip Contest! First, learn about the components of a great dip from our own Chef Cremo – and then team up to create a dip of your own. After tasting, we’ll vote, and the winner will take home a gift basket from the farm!
Thursdays in February, 2024, 12:15-1 pm: Yoga at the Farm for Staff and Faculty. Join Dr. Kim Holton for an outdoor yoga class held throughout the month of February. It’s free!
January 31, 2024, 4-5 pm, at the Field & Fork Pantry: Broccoli and Cheese Chef Demo! It’s raining broccoli at the farm, and hundreds of pounds will soon make its way to the pantry. Join us for a taste bud adventure that proves broccoli is anything but boring.
October 27,2023 4:30-6:30 pm: Fall Open House! Join us at the Farm for some harvest festivities! Dig for sweet potatoes, visit our spooky forest garden, plant a basil for yourself, snack on yummy garden-inspired snacks and win a (temporary) veggie tattoo! Come for the farm fun and stay for the bats! Emergence is around 7, and UF’s bat expert, Shelly Johnson, will be on hand to answer your questions!
April 21, 2023 5-7 pm: Spring Open House! Join us at the Field & Fork Farm and Gardens for an exploration of these hands-on agricultural teaching spaces.