Foodie Webinars bring you Foodie Talks and demos on everything foodie from challah bread baking to community gardens, to making wine from grapes grown in your own backyard. Learn how to save a little of the summer by quick pickling produce available right now at North Fork farm stands; how to start seeds outdoors in the winter to give your garden a head start in spring – a great project for parents and kids to do together; how to taste wine like a sommelier; and how a languishing school garden has been turned into a resource that feeds the community’s body and spirit whether or not school is in session. The webinars will remain available on the North Fork Foodie Tour website so you can watch them again according to your own schedule.

Here are our 2020 Foodie Tour Webinar Videos.  Please click the arrow on each video screen below to view the webinar and click on the related attachments and links shown in blue.   We’d also appreciate your feedback.  Just click on the button below.

Bottles, cans, boxes, corks, screw caps… wine comes in all shapes and sizes.  Shelby Hearn of Suhru Wines in Cutchogue discusses the reasons vintners choose different closures and packaging and what it can mean about the quality of the wine they contain.  You may be surprised!  Learn more at Suhru Wines.

Ellen Love explains the art of baking challah, the festive bread served at Jewish celebrations. Gather all the ingredients before you watch the video so that you can bake along with Ellen as she demonstrates all the steps to creating a beautiful and delectable loaf including kneading, proofing, braiding and more.

View Ellen’s recipe HERE.

Have your wine and glasses ready to participate at home when RGNY’s Bordeaux-trained Winemaker, Lilia Pérez of RGNY Wine hosts a virtual wine tasting.  Learn about the Bordeaux-influenced winemaking processes at RGNY.  She will take participants through the how-to techniques for tasting wine like a pro.   Check out their website HERE.

Learn more about Lilia HERE and click on PREP WORK if you’d like to be ready for a tasting while you watch the video.

Please review these attachments and print them out before your tasting session:  How to Taste Wine Like a Pro, RGNY Wine Tasting Notes, and RGNY Technical Cards.

Master Gardener Sharna Nicholson will teach you how to start seeds OUTDOORS in January, February & March for easy planting in the springtime. Since many students could be doing remote learning this school year, this presentation offers an excellent science project for adults and children to do together.

Here are some TIPS for winter seed showing.

Casey Corn is a chef, caterer, food writer and general food enthusiast who loves sharing her knowledge and passion. Casey will teach you how to save a little of the summer by quick pickling using ingredients found at local North Fork farm stands. Learn more about Casey and watch a few videos HERE.

Check out pickling tips HERE.

Are you dreaming of growing your own wine grapes? John Nicholson is living proof that it can be done! His webinar will help get you started. John’s webinar will include discussions of different types of pruning, bud dissections to determine health of your vines, de-leafing and thinning the vines to get the best possible yield.

Greenport School’s garden which once languished in the summer after the end of the school year has been reborn as expansive full-year space that offers nourishment of all kinds to the entire school and community, from the food they grow and share at their “Free for All Market” to a moment for art or meditation to an outdoor classroom to their engaging Facebook and Instagram pages. Penny describes the process of transformation, the ongoing collective work and how feeding a community with a garden nurtures hope, joy and unity.

Check out the Facebook page for the Greenport School Unity Garden HERE.  Here is a recipe you can try at home.