Upcoming Friends of Family Farmers event 

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Friends of Family Farmers, the amazing non-profit supporting Oregon's small farms, is putting on an InFARMation event on the 25th that should be interesting. See below for more information. 

Honey may be a natural sweetener that you take for granted, or maybe you keep backyard bees or are thinking about it. Honey can also be fermented into mead - the fastest-growing alcoholic beverage category in the United States. Mead is a modern craft beverage that can be enjoyed at home every week.

Except for the rare wild-harvested hive, essentially all honey comes from domesticated honey bees, in other words, from farms.

At this InFARMation, local farmers Jeff Garner of BeeLicious Honey, and Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor of Kookoolan Farms and Kookoolan World Meadery, will take us from Hive to Table!

Holocene will also have Nectar Creek session meads available at the bar for you to taste.

Topics covered will be:

• Basics of backyard and small-scale commercial beekeeping
• Appreciating varietal honeys, and the difference between real honey and commodity honey
• Basics of harvesting honey from a hive
• How to make mead
• Commercial meaderies of the northwest (16 in Oregon, 25 in Washington!)

Panelists:

• Jeff Garner, BeeLicious Honey
• Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor, KOOKOOLAN FARMS, KOOKOOLAN WORLD MEADERY, and author of "The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing"

What: InFARMation Portland
When: Tuesday, April 25 - Doors open at 5:30, discussion begins at 6:30
Where: Holocene (1001 SE Morrison) in Portland
Who: You and your Friends, all ages welcome
Cost: Free (with donations encouraged)

InFARMation takes place the last Tuesday of every month at the Holocene in Portland from 5:30 - 8:30 pm.