Rise Up Baking

Rise Up Baking’s workshops go beyond baking. Our mission is to bring people together to talk, teach, learn, bake, laugh and eat together. With a broad analysis centered in the belief that food security is central to any struggle for social justice, our workshops weave history, politics, economics and popular culture into a collective baking experience after which everyone takes home not just food, but new knowledge and a broader community. Grounded in the pedagogy of Popular Education, Rise Up Baking workshop participants learn from one another by doing work together

Rise Up Baking has facilitated workshops at conferences, parties, E.A.T. Earth Activist Training, The Burdock Gathering, and spontaneous reunions of good friends. Contact us to host one of the workshops below, or propose something new.

~ A Herstory of Bread ~ Participants learn the origins of bread-making though interactive activities and baking bread together, then take home their freshly baked creation. Ages 1 – adult.

~ Puffy Pretzels ~ We’ll witness the magic of yeast starting, then with flour and salt turn it into pretzels of any shape under the sun. Ages 2 – adult.

~ Make My Cake! ~ Work as a team to create a cake for any occasion. Ages 2 – adult.

~ Gingerbread Barn-Raising ~ We provide the wood (gingerbread), the glue (royal icing) and the decorations (dried and candied fruit, nuts and more) for a crew of small builders to create a home fit for elves and fairies.

~ Vermicomposting ~ Learn how to use our friends, the worms, to turn your food scraps back into rich, healthy soil, right in your own backyard (or bathroom. or kitchen.) Ages 6 – adult.

~ Who Picked My Apple? ~ Embark on a journey from seed to fruit and from tree to table, learning about our globalized food system and locally-grown alternatives along the way. Ages 8 – adult.

~ A Taste of Your Own Medicine ~ Learn how to recognize, harvest and use common “weeds” and cultivated plants to make traditional medicines, including tinctures, salves, balms and tea blends. Ages 8 – adult.

~ Wildgathering! ~ Did you know that most medicines come from plants? Did you know that we have many medicinal plants growing in New York City? Journey into NYC’s parks and community gardens to find medicinal herbs and edibles. Seasonal availability. Ages 3 – adult (children 3 – 10 must be accompanied by an adult or child over age 10).

~ Time to Make the Donuts ~ Making donuts isn’t worth it unless you make a lot of them! Learn the secrets of making incredible fresh donuts that put krispy kreme to shame. Ages 10 – adult.

~ What’s For Dinner? ~ Participate in a collective kitchen experience, prepping and cooking together while learning about community kitchen projects all over the world. Ages 12 – adult.

~ Who Picked My Coffee? ~ The grown-up version of Who Picked My Apple, this workshop traces our coffee consumption back to its origins in European colonization and into the present relationship between those who grow it and those who drink it. Participants brew traditional alternatives to coffee while exploring possabilities for alternative coffee economy rooted in social and environmental justice. Ages 16 – adult.