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Adult Programs Overview
From farm tours, to lectures, to fun and informative culinary classes, we offer experiential opportunities for adults to engage in discussions, cook, share meals, and learn how to support a healthy ecosystem, community, and economy.
Our adult programming is designed to educate and entertain those who are interested in the quality of their food, environment, and wellness and strive to understand their interconnectedness.
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Featured Programs
Brewed With Purpose: An 860Kombucha Journey at The UNITED
Join us at the UNITED Table as the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center sits in conversation with David Brannan, founder and head brewer of Mystic’s own 860Kombucha, the first kombucha brewery in Eastern Connecticut. Learn about the history and art of Kombucha and 860’s partnerships with local farms where they source the fresh and ingredients that flavor their brews. Taste a seasonal kombucha brewed especially for this event!
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Bubbling Brews: The Science and Craft of Kombucha
Join David Brannan, the founder and head brewer at 860Kombucha, to learn about the art of fermenting tea. You will learn how to use a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) to guide your tea through fermentation, flavor it with ingredients of your choice, and create a SCOBY hotel (storage container) for continuous brewing. You will taste a variety of 860Kombucha flavors and leave with a kombucha home brewing kit!
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Spring in a Bottle: Crafting Vinegars at Home
You will sample vinegars flavored with spring botanicals and use them to make an aioli and a shrub to bring back to your home kitchens. Cookbooks will be available for purchase.
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Growing Through The Seasons: Gardening Workshops
Yellow Farmhouse and Stone Acres farmers will help you create a blueprint for your beds, plan for produce throughout the growing season, manage weeds and pests sustainably, tend tomatoes, cultivate your soil, and put your garden to rest in the fall. All experience levels are welcome!
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Aged to Perfection: Making Cheese on New England's Culinary Coast
Deepen your appreciation and knowledge of cheeses while enjoying a guided tasting curated by award-winning cheesemaker Brian Civitello of Mystic Cheese Company. Learn about Civitello’s artisanal cheese house right here in Groton, CT, and Westerly, RI, and taste a selection of cheeses, including The Gray, the first-prize winner of the 2024 American Cheese Society award for best international-style cheese. Cheeses will be served with hors d’ouvres made with locally grown produce and craft kombuchas by Mystic’s own 860Kombucha.
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Upcoming Programs and Events
Event
Description
Brewed With Purpose: An 860Kombucha Journey at the UNITED
May 8, 2025Join us at the UNITED Table as the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center sits in conversation with David Brannan, founder and head brewer of Mystic’s own 860Kombucha, the first kombucha brewery in Eastern Connecticut. Learn about the history and art of Kombucha and 860’s partnerships with local farms where they source the fresh and ingredients that flavor their brews. Taste a seasonal kombucha brewed especially for this event!
Bubbling Brews: The Science and Craft of Kombucha
May 15, 2025Join David Brannan, the founder and head brewer at 860Kombucha, to learn about the art of fermenting tea. You will learn how to use a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) to guide your tea through fermentation, flavor it with ingredients of your choice, and create a SCOBY hotel (storage container) for continuous brewing. You will taste a variety of 860Kombucha flavors and leave with a kombucha home brewing kit!
Spring in a Bottle: Crafting Vinegars at Home
May 29, 2025In this workshop, Harry Rosenblum, author of Vinegar Revival, will teach you how to ferment and flavor vinegar. Harry will share how to cultivate a mother, brew vinegar at home, and explore recipes that use vinegar to enhance your favorite dishes. You will sample vinegars flavored with spring botanicals and use them to make an aioli and a shrub to bring back to your home kitchens. Cookbooks will be available for purchase.
Growing Through The Seasons: Gardening Workshops
June 5, 2025Yellow Farmhouse and Stone Acres farmers will help you create a blueprint for your beds, plan for produce throughout the growing season, manage weeds and pests sustainably, tend tomatoes, cultivate your soil, and put your garden to rest in the fall. $35 per workshop!
Aged to Perfection: Making Cheese on New England's Culinary Coast
June 21, 2025Deepen your appreciation and knowledge of cheeses while enjoying a guided tasting curated by award-winning cheesemaker Brian Civitello of Mystic Cheese Company. Learn about Civitello’s artisanal cheese house right here in Groton, CT, and Westerly, RI, and taste a selection of cheeses, including The Gray, the first-prize winner of the 2024 American Cheese Society award for best international-style cheese. Cheeses will be served with hors d’ouvres made with locally grown produce and craft kombuchas by Mystic’s own 860Kombucha.