Fresh Flavors Workshop

In this hands-on family workshop, you’ll experience familiar foods in fresh new ways. Explore the Kid’s Farm, harvest your own ingredients, turn them into flavorful bite-sized creations, and express the emotion and imagination behind your unique recipes.

Guided by Environmental Educator Jacob Tracy, this 2-hour experience invites kids and their grownups to connect with food, flavor, and each other in refreshing new ways—complete with a friendly culinary competition to create the most interesting ingredient combination. May the fresh be always in your flavor!

• Hands-On Harvesting: Learn to gather produce with care, building confidence and curiosity along the way.
• Farm-Fresh Flavors: Explore bold, seasonal tastes using ingredients you’ve just picked.
• Creative Combos: Prepare playful, bite-sized recipes that spark imagination and joy.
• Family Food Connection: Share meaningful time in nature while nurturing healthy habits and a love for local food.

Jacob Tracy (he/him) grew up in the forests and vineyards of Napa Valley. Attending farm camps as a child turned environmental education into a lifelong passion. During his studies at Quest University Canada, he hosted garden parties and fell in love with wild foods. He went on to manage the kitchen garden for the Culinary Institute of America, where he now holds a graduate degree in sustainable food systems. He has built and installed a free seed library, led countless edible school tours, and founded the grassroots Napa Farmers Guild. He moved to Seattle to serve with AmeriCorps as the community agriculture specialist for King Conservation District, where he supported food security programs with public, tribal, and refugee agencies, and designed the online community agriculture map.

Jacob is thrilled to find new roots at Oxbow, helping the next generation explore what it means to be in relation with land and each other.

This workshop is valued at $20, but we invite you to choose the ticket price that best fits your circumstances. Our tiered pricing model makes the experience more accessible while fostering a spirit of community care.

• $15 Community Supported Ticket: Choose this rate if you're navigating financial challenges, such as medical or immigration expenses, public assistance, or other systemic barriers.
• $20 Standard Ticket: Covers the cost of the workshop.
• $25 Community Supporter Ticket: Choose this rate if you have financial security or access to wealth and want to help make this offering more accessible for others.

We trust you to select the rate that feels right—no questions asked. Your choice supports a more equitable and inclusive community.

Need additional support? If the $15 rate is a barrier, please email us at .

All participants must register in advance—spaces are limited!

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Oxbow is open rain or shine, except in cases of extreme weather (lightning, high winds, wildfire smoke, or flooding conditions that make it unsafe for visitors).

*Note to registrants: If we cancel an event you will be notified via email when the decision to close is made.

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