November 14th, 5 - 8 pm

In collaboration with Harbornest, held in Gig Harbor at the Net Shed

*address + directions will be emailed to you once you complete your ticket purchase.

Join us for an evening at the table with Kelly Welk of Ciderpress Lane & Amy Flippo of Harbornest. We'll start with a hands on appetizer cooking class. Kelly will teach you how to create and serve three of our favorite flavor packed and fool proof small bite offerings. Then we'll fill our plates and gather at the table with globe lights overhead and the table filled with candles and flowers. It's going to be an evening of leisurely conversation and time to connect before the fullness of the holidays are upon us.

A selection of beverages will be provided by Amy, owner of Harbornest. This experience is both a hands on cooking class and full sit down dining experience at the table with Ciderpress Lane. Each guest will leave with their hearts full, plus all of the recipes to recreate each of the dishes we made.

Kelly Welk is the founder of The Freedom Dinners, benefitting Atlas Free. In addition to hosting Freedom Dinners you can find Kelly in her garden or kitchen sharing tips on Instagram. She is a cookbook author, event & floral designer and loves creating beautiful community.

Amy Flippo owns the boutique Harbornest, is a realtor and interior designer. From finding the home where your family memories will be made, to getting friends together over beautiful tables and in-store events, Amy's focus is supporting and encouraging the community.

a portion of all sales on ciderpresslane.com are donated to Atlas Free & for this special collaboration $5 goes to the city of Gig Harbor to support community events

November 14th, 10am & 1pm

In collaboration with Harbornest held in Gig Harbor at the Net Shed

The Pie Making Workshops will last 1.5 hours with mingling at the end included. The class will take place in the Net Shed building, which is located behind Harbornest at 3311 Harborview Drive

Pie Making Tutorial : learn all of the tricks to making fool proof flakey pie crust!

Come learn all-things-pie making from Kelly Welk of Ciderpress Lane. In this demonstration style class Kelly will show you the tricks she uses to make the easiest fool-proof pie crust. Then she'll dive into how she uses the pie crust for sweet and savory galettes, single shell and double shell pies. While you sip steaming mugs of coffee or goblets filled with sparkly spritzers and enjoy Kelly's delicious hand made caramel apple galettes, you'll learn everything you need to know to make your own pies. You'll go home with recipes and tips to help you fill your own kitchen and tables with the most amazing Pear Frangipane, Savory Tomato Appetizer Galettes, Pumpkin, Pecan and Apple Pies and of course our seasonal favorite Turkey Pot Pie! 

Kelly Welk is the founder of The Freedom Dinners, benefitting Atlas Free. In addition to hosting Freedom Dinners you can find Kelly in her garden or kitchen sharing tips on Instagram. She is a cookbook author, event & floral designer and loves creating beautiful community.

Amy Flippo is the owner of the boutique Harbornest, is a realtor, and an interior designer. From finding the home where your family memories will be made, to getting friends together over beautiful tables and in-store events, Amy's focus is supporting and encouraging the community.

a portion of all sales on  ciderpresslane.com  are donated to Atlas Free & for this special collaboration $5 goes to the city of Gig Harbor to support community events

Join us for this very special event at Ciderpress Lane: dahlias, watercolors, and a beautiful afternoon at the orchard tables in lovely creative company!

Sunday September 15, 1-5pm

Held at the Ciderpress Lane Orchard Tables

*address + directions will be emailed once you complete your ticket purchase.

This is your invitation to paint and play with Sarah Simon @TheMintGardener’s watercolor instruction, while surrounded by the beauty of the Ciderpress Lane Orchard and Dahlia garden. We’ll enjoy delicious small bites and beverages as well as fresh flower bouquets with Kelly Welk @kellywelk, the owner of Ciderpress Lane and creator of #freedomdinners. The orchard tables will be set with all the beauty to welcome you in. Come enjoy this creative feast, take a mindful evening to pause the everyday and soak in the slow beauty of painting, flowers and good food.

The Painting

After this class with Sarah, you will be skilled and knowledgeable, with the new ability to see and recreate the watercolor process, layer by layer.

During our time together, you will learn the techniques Sarah uses for watercolor, and see how she uniquely teaches the foundations of this art as a transferable and mindful skill. Sarah teaches you step-by-step in her NEW book, Watercolor Workbook: Flowers, Feathers & Animal Friends, and once you know how to paint a few flowing washes, that knowledge can be used to paint a fabulous project together from the book. The possibilities are endless with this beautiful art form. Once you work through the foundations together, learn the steps to paint in her new book, together with Sarah. You will work on the pre-drawn template of the project in the book, so no drawing is required.

With this class registration, you will receive all of the materials you need to continue to paint at home: brushes, paints and of course…your own signed copy of Sarah's new Watercolor Workbook! Sarah cannot wait for you to join her; to fall in love with the flowing freedom of watercolor, and the beauty of watching paint and water dance along your pages.

The Flowers

Kelly will give a small tutorial on how to create a hand tied garden bouquet. Then you’ll be able to help yourself to the flower bar filled with blooms from the Ciderpress Lane dahlia and cutting garden - your bouquets will fill the orchard tables to inspire your painting, plus you’ll be able to bring the beauty home with you.

The Food

Kelly Welk is providing her fresh from the garden Private Chef goodness. Creating a spread of savory and sweet small bites for us to enjoy as we sip and enjoy our afternoon in the orchard. Her dishes are fresh and flavorful, made with all of the goodness straight from their gardens at Ciderpress Lane. She’s creating a feast of late summer flavors that everyone can enjoy!

Fresh Mint infused water

Lavender Lemon Summer Spritzers

Watermelon Mint Skewers

Homemade Focaccia topped with Creamy Herbed Cheese & Basil Tomato Lentil Salad 

Roasted Yam & Black Bean Salad served with Blue Corn Tortilla Chips (gluten & dairy free)

Mandarin Orange Mini Bundt Cakes with Mandarin Glaze (gluten + dairy free)

Decaf Coffee

We hope you'll join us for this special evening!

About Sarah:

Artist and author Sarah Simon, a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to watercolor and with her teaching talents, has made it such an approachable and enjoyable art form, both for the experienced and novice alike. Her book Watercolor Workbook provides everything you need to know about the art of watercolor and has been the #1 best-selling watercolor book in the world for the past three years! And now, in this NEW workbook, Sarah offers 25 MORE watercolor projects that you can sit down and enjoy painting today.

About Kelly:

Kelly and her husband Aaron are the owners of Ciderpress Lane, a business created around their life of gardening, hosting, delicious food, gathering and fighting human trafficking. Nine years ago they started hosting ‘freedom dinners’ to raise money. Those dinners began with just friends and family and have turned into the most powerful community run dinners. Today they continue to host Freedom Dinners as well as design beautiful community events, weddings, private dinners and workshops. Kelly wrote her first book, a cookbook called Dinner Changes Everything, to tell the story of the freedom dinners through hosting tips and recipes to help you host your own. She wrote her latest book, Dream Catcher, as a conversation, written straight from her heart to empower other women to dream over their every day. You can join Kelly and her beautiful community at www.ciderpresslane.com , @kellywelk or @ciderpresslane and find them on facebook as CiderPress Lane

Cancellation Policy: Due to the highly creative and collaborative coordination that events like this require ahead of time, the Hosts cannot offer refunds.

The ticket purchase once made is non-refundable, but should the participant be unable to make the planned event, the participant can gift their ticket to a friend if they cannot make it! The participant can make arrangements, and notify the Host.

However, we understand that 'life happens,' and any cancellation request received due to an extenuating circumstance may be reviewed by the Hosts who in turn will recommend the appropriate action. Extenuating circumstances can be (but not limited to) death in the family, documented positive COVID-19 test etc.

‍If the event is cancelled by Hosts, all participants will be extended a full refund of their payments.

Kelly's Amazon Lists - Upcoming Events - Workshops - The Freedom Dinners - Come join @kellywelk on instagram - Book: Dinner Changes Everything

You will notice that the price is set to $0 … we as a business do not take any portion of the proceeds from these dinners, every penny is given directly to Atlas Free.

Here’s how the reservation process works!

• Complete the ‘purchase’ of your tickets. You will not be charged from our shop but you will fill in your reservation information.

• Then check your email! You’ll be emailed instructions on how to give your donation for your seats.

• Your seats are not reserved until your donation is given.

• We suggest a donation of $150 or more to reserve a seat at the table, but friend … we know every budget is different, our number one goal is to gather our community. Give what you can knowing that the ripple effect goes far beyond this one dinner.

• Donations are non refundable, but if your schedule does not allow you to attend please gift your seats to a friend!

Be sure to check your inbox once you complete your purchase!

We suggest a donation of $150 to reserve a seat at the table

Freedom Dinners are hands down our favorite event to host at our Orchard Tables. Each dinner is unique with the menu and decor determined by what is in season and what members of our community are donating to make it possible.

Every member of the team is a volunteer, every piece of decor is donated for use, all menu items are created by members of the community and in order to reserve seats at the table each guest gives a donation to Atlas Free. The donations act as your ticket purchase which means every penny can go straight to those who need our help the most. Quite truly, these dinners are the most beautiful potluck that fights human trafficking!

Click here to read more about how the Freedom Dinners began and what to expect.

*we create the menu based on items donated from our community of bakers, farmers, shop owners and more. We do our best to create a menu that is gluten friendly and will accommodate allergies as best we can.

Dinner Menu

August 30 Menu + Beauty :

If you have a donation referral please do reach out. We love connecting with new Individuals and Businesses, Bakers and Farms to include them in the community pot luck portion of this event. You can rest assured that the menu will easily accommodate any guests with dairy or gluten allergies.

Appetizers:

Fresh Garden Bruschetta

Savory Lentil Dip served with Tortillas & Zucchini Rounds

Dinner:

Roasted Beet & Blueberry Mixed Green Salad with Spiced Pecans and Blue Cheese

French Style Potato Salad

Blackened Salmon with Blueberry Salsa

Sourdough @thefiveloavesbaker

Mixed Berry Pie  @sweetlifecakery

Ice Cream @fabulous_babbs_icecreamco

Local Cider @locustgigharbor

Here’s a peek at the goodness coming together :

Florals provided by @willowandmabelgardenco

Amy Flippo, of @Harbornest is providing a portion of the menu

Wine Selection provided by Clay West

Amy Pickering , owner of Harbornest is providing Kelly’s Dress

Photography provided by Ana Glossinger @anaglossingerphotoandevents

plus an entire team of volunteers coming to prep, serve and wash dishes

Have questions? email us here

We’re looking forward to welcoming each of you to the table.

Even if you cannot join us at the table for a Freedom Dinner, we invite you to be a part of the fight for freedom. Click here to donate!

This event is Sold Out

Friday August 23

7-9pm

hosted in the Ciderpress Lane Orchard

Join us for an evening learning how to arrange your own lush floral arrangement from the cutting garden.

While you’re sipping a summer spritzer and enjoying a sweet Red Tin Treat, Kelly will show you how to create a garden floral arrangement in a bowl style vase. This is one of our favorite vases to use for the garden flowers! Kelly will give you all of her favorite tips and tricks. The flower bar will be filled to overflowing with greenery and fillers, pops of color and stunning dahlias all so you can create your own garden arrangement.

All necessary floral elements will be provided!

Each guest will go home with their bronze bowl style vase filled with flowers and their heart overflowing. We cannot wait to enjoy a warm summer evening, fresh flowers, spritzers, sweets and time spent being creative together.

Join us for this very special event at Twig & Vine flower farm: dahlias, watercolors, and a beautiful meal in lovely creative company!

This is your invitation to paint and play with Sarah Simon @TheMintGardener’s watercolor instruction, learn how to harvest dahlias with a lovely you-pick take-home bouquet with Deanna Kitchen @twigandvine, and enjoy delicious light bites and beverages with Kelly Welk @kellywelk, the owner of Ciderpress Lane and creator of #freedomdinners. Widely known for its exceptional scenery, Deanna Kitchen’s beautiful pacific northwest property is a perfect little day-getaway, tucked between the mountains and the coast just an hour north of Seattle, in the heart of Skagit county. Come enjoy this creative feast, take a mindful evening to pause the everyday and soak in the slow beauty of painting, flowers and good food.

**Ticket link will take you to an eventbrite site to purchase tickets, away from ciderpresslane.com.

The Painting

After this class with Sarah, you will be skilled and knowledgeable, with the new ability to see and recreate the watercolor process, layer by layer.

During our time together, you will learn the techniques Sarah uses for watercolor, and see how she uniquely teaches the foundations of this art as a transferable and mindful skill. Sarah teaches you step-by-step in her NEW book, Watercolor Workbook: Flowers, Feathers & Animal Friends, and once you know how to paint a few flowing washes, that knowledge can be used to paint a fabulous project together from the book. The possibilities are endless with this beautiful art form. Once you work through the foundations together, learn the steps to paint in her new book, together with Sarah. You will work on the pre-drawn template of the project in the book, so no drawing is required.

With this class registration, you will receive all of the materials you need to continue to paint at home: brushes, paints and of course…your own signed copy of Sarah's new Watercolor Workbook! Sarah cannot wait for you to join her; to fall in love with the flowing freedom of watercolor, and the beauty of watching paint and water dance along your pages.

The Flowers

Prepare to be immersed in beauty as you stroll up and down the flower field rows in peak bloom, taking in the unique beauty of over 500 dahlias, heirloom annual blooms and fragrant herbs and foliage for cut bouquets. After your you-pick session with Deanna, you'll not only leave with a lush bouquet of dahlias, but you’ll also be equipped with new knowledge and skills you can take home and apply to your garden endeavors. You'll learn how to identify the proper stage of harvest for dahlias, annual blooms and foliage, how to harvest to encourage new growth in your plants, plus methods for post harvest handling to maximize vase life, floral design tips and inspiration for sharing flowers. A glass vessel is provided, so you can safely tuck your hand tied bouquet in for the journey home.

The Food

Kelly Welk is bringing her fresh from the garden Private Chef goodness straight to the flower farm. Creating a spread of savory and sweet lite bites for us to enjoy as we sip and stroll through the flowers. Her dishes are fresh and flavorful, made with all of the goodness straight from their gardens at Ciderpress Lane. She’s creating a feast of summer flavors that everyone can enjoy!

Fresh Mint infused water

Lavender Lemon Summer Spritzers

Roasted Red Pepper Dip with Julienned Vegetables and Veggies Crisps (gluten + dairy free)

Watermelon Mint Skewers

Roasted Yam & Black Bean Salad served with Blue Tortilla Chips (GF/DF)

Homemade Focaccia topped with Creamy Herbed Cheese & Basil Tomato Lentil Salad

Mandarin Orange Mini Bundt Cakes with Mandarin Glaze (GF/DF)

Decaf Coffee

We hope you'll join us for this special evening!

We can’t wait to see what you create! Tag us on instagram @ciderpresslane

Kelly's Amazon Lists - Upcoming Events - Workshops - The Freedom Dinners - Come join @kellywelk on instagram - Book: Dinner Changes Everything

About Sarah:

Artist and author Sarah Simon, a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to watercolor and with her teaching talents, has made it such an approachable and enjoyable art form, both for the experienced and novice alike. Her book Watercolor Workbook provides everything you need to know about the art of watercolor and has been the #1 best-selling watercolor book in the world for the past three years! And now, in this NEW workbook, Sarah offers 25 MORE watercolor projects that you can sit down and enjoy painting today.

About Deanna:

Deanna Kitchen is a flower farmer and floral designer. Together with her family, she operates Twig and Vine Farm, a microscale cut flower farm specializing in dahlias. Deanna’s heart for gathering, teaching and community service, led her to founding The Growing Kindness™ Project. Deanna quickly learned the joy of freely giving flowers as acts of kindness and catalysts for meaningful connection and she set out to find ways to help others experience the same. The Growing Kindness Project now leads a global team of over 2500 gardeners and farmers who are on a mission to change the world with kindness, one stem at a time. In pursuit of simplicity, Deanna has stepped away from social media, but you can follow along with the farm at www.twigandvinefarm.com or check out past stories and images on instagram @twigandvine. You can follow along with Growing Kindness on instagram @growingkindnessproject or learn more a www.growingkindnessproject.org.

Photographer: Moments By Mark Mandi

Reservations are now open!

You will notice that the price is set to $0 … we as a business do not take any portion of the proceeds from these dinners, every penny is given directly to Atlas Free.

Here’s how the reservation process works!

• Complete the ‘purchase’ of your tickets. You will not be charged from our shop but you will fill in your reservation information.

• Then check your email! You’ll be emailed instructions on how to give your donation for your seats.

• Your seats are not reserved until your donation is given.

• We suggest a donation of $150 or more to reserve a seat at the table, but friend … we know every budget is different, our number one goal is to gather our community. Give what you can knowing that the ripple effect goes far beyond this one dinner.

• Donations are non refundable, but if your schedule does not allow you to attend please gift your seats to a friend!

Be sure to check your inbox once you complete your reservation!

We suggest a donation of $150 to reserve a seat at the table

Freedom Dinners are hands down our favorite event to host at our Orchard Tables. Each dinner is unique with the menu and decor determined by what is in season and what members of our community are donating to make it possible.

Every member of the team is a volunteer, every piece of decor is donated for use, all menu items are created by members of the community and in order to reserve seats at the table each guest gives a donation to Atlas Free. The donations act as your ticket purchase which means every penny can go straight to those who need our help the most. Quite truly, these dinners are the most beautiful potluck that fights human trafficking!

Click here to read more about how the Freedom Dinners began and what to expect.

*we create the menu based on items donated from our community of bakers, farmers, shop owners and more. We do our best to create a menu that is gluten friendly and will accommodate allergies as best we can.

Dinner Menu

Appetizers

Roasted Red Pepper Dip with Tortillas and Julienned Vegetables

Cornbread Crostini topped with Creamy Herbed Cheese and Roasted Beets

Dinner

Salad of mixed greens topped with grilled corn, avocados and red peppers with a fresh mint & cilantro dressing and cotija garnish

Moroccan Grilled Steak donated by Amy Flippo of Harbornest

Roasted Yams

Sourdough Bread Baked and Donated by Mekenzie @FiveloavesBaker

Dessert made and donated by @happy.clementine & @andyrose.bakehouse

Decaf Coffee

Hand Crafted drinks made by Jordan McGrath

Florals provided by @manetteflowerco

Wine Selection provided by Wautoma Springs Winery

We’re looking forward to welcoming each of you to the table.

Even if you cannot join us at the table for a Freedom Dinner, we invite you to be a part of the fight for freedom. Click here to donate!

We’re thrilled to be hosting this garden workshop with a focus on seed starting! This is such a fun winter project to get your garden started even earlier than it can outside. Starting your own garden seeds takes a little practice, some specific tools and we’re here to dive in to all of it!

This workshop is great for anyone who is hoping to jump start their garden this season by growing starts either inside under grow lights or in your own greenhouse. There are some different tools you’ll need depending on which route you’re going - and we’ll be sure to talk about both.

While we enjoy fresh scones and coffee, Kelly will teach you:

• how to start different kinds of vegetable and flower seeds

• you’ll learn about growing under grow lights as opposed to in a greenhouse

• how to care for your seeds and then seedlings as they mature over the coming weeks

• when to plant them out into the garden

• and how to transplant them

  
  

  Each Guest will:

  • Plant their own Seed Tray with their choice of flowers and/or vegetable seeds. We will have snapdragons, sweet pea flowers, strawflowers, bachelor buttons, spinach, snap peas, lettuce and kale for you to choose from

  • We’ll talk about seed planting depth, tap roots, cold stratification, how some seeds require light to germinate and others do not all so your seed trays will fill with little seedlings in just a week or so.

This workshop will take place inside - we’ll be cozy and warm in our main room.

If you would like to dive into even more gardening fun join us at the Get Your Garden Started Workshop in April! We’ll be spending more time on how to prep your garden bed, compost, direct sowing your seeds, drip systems and watering. Plus each guest will get our latest cottage garden map and seeds to plant in your garden. Details for this workshop will be available soon.

We look forward to getting our garden seeds started with you!

We are thrilled to invite you join us for an afternoon with Kelly Welk and Mollie Marigold. Kelly will welcome you in to our main room to enjoy mingling and meeting new friends by the crackling fire, with a feast of savory and sweet small bites, winter spritzers and so much time to learn from Mollie how to create your own Linocut Print Art.

Click Here to Watch Mollie Create a Linocut Print …. this is what you’ll learn how to do!

All of the details are covered for this cozy winter afternoon enjoying a spread of our favorite recipes, bubbly drinks and steaming mugs of coffee and tea while we learn. Linocut Art is a type of Block Printing. Mollie will teach you how to carve your design into a linoleum block, roll on block printing ink and then print it on paper! The best part is that you’ll go home with your own Linocut Block ready to print to your hearts content…create your own gift wrapping, or cards, tea towels or shirts. You get to use your design however your heart desires.

No experience necessary and no tools required. All you need is to come with a heart ready to learn, hands ready to create and an afternoon to enjoy all the beauty of savoring life and making art together.

We will provide all necessary elements:

• linoleum blocks

• carving tools

• ink

• rollers

• paper

• and the most delicious spread of small bites to enjoy along the way

We look forward to welcoming you into an afternoon spent creating together!

Let us introduce you to Mollie! You can find out even more and follow her fun art journey at @MollieMarigold

Mollie grew up outside of Portland, Oregon, where her brother with autism sparked her interest in using art to make connections with people. Spending hours her brother drawing saints and nuns, she saw art as a cathartic outlet for them both. From there she discovered fonts and calligraphy, and it has since become a lifelong passion. She earned BA degrees in Political Science and Spanish and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington, but she always made time to make art, experimenting with new techniques and materials. Through her training as a social worker, Mollie learned the role art could play in healing and providing a positive outlet for people to express themselves

Join us here, in our kitchen and at the table for Friendsgiving! We are planning this evening to be an intimate, hands on, Friendsgiving filled with rich flavors and most of all leisurely time spent dining together. Think the best cooking class you’ve ever been to, where you don’t need to know a thing, you get to cook with your goblet in hand, and leave all of the dishes to us while you sit back and soak in an evening at the table.

Grab your friends, your partner, your Mom and join us! There are just 20 seats at the table, for this unforgettable dinner experience.

Menu

Balsamic Roasted Grape & Blue Cheese Crostini

Butternut Squash & Cider Soup

Homemade Focaccia Bread

Roasted Vegetables, Pine Nuts, Parmesan Shavings served over Mixed Greens

Wine & Herb Braised Roast

Caramel Apple Galette

We cannot wait to welcome you into our kitchen and to our table.

Tickets are now OPEN for our September 15 Fall Dinner!

Join us here, in our kitchen and at the orchard table for an intimate hands on cooking class dinner experience. Filled with all the deep lovely late summer flavors and most of all leisurely time spent dining together. Think the best cooking class you’ve ever been to, where you don’t need to know a thing, you get to cook with your goblet in hand, and leave all of the dishes to us while you sit back and soak in an evening at the table.

We'll be creating a late summer feast for our Fall Dinner with :

Fresh Bruschetta Appetizers

Roasted Butternut Squash & Beets served over mixed greens with toasted hazelnuts and herbed goat cheese Salad

Homemade Cornbread with honey butter

BBQ Tri Tip

and Plum Slab Pie with Decaf Coffee to finish our feast.

We can't wait to see you all in the orchard for a fun evening cooking and setting the table together.

We suggest a donation of $150 to reserve a seat at the table

Freedom Dinners are hands down our favorite event to host at our Orchard Tables. Each dinner is unique with the menu and decor determined by what is in season and what members of our community are donating to make it possible.

Every member of the team is a volunteer, every piece of decor is donated for use, all menu items are created by members of the community and in order to reserve seats at the table each guest gives a donation to Atlas Free. The donations act as your ticket purchase which means every penny can go straight to those who need our help the most. Quite truly, these dinners are the most beautiful potluck that fights human trafficking!

Click here to read more about how the Freedom Dinners began and what to expect.

*we create the menu based on items donated from our community of bakers, farmers, shop owners and more. We do our best to create a menu that is gluten friendly and will accomdate allergies as best we can. Below is this dinner’s menu.

We’re looking forward to welcoming each of you to the table.

Appetizers :
Garden Fresh Bruschetta, donated by Amie Lacher
Herbed Cheese & Smoked Salmon topped Cucumbers

Dinner :
Summer Citrus Salad
Herb Roasted Yam Rounds
Homemade Sourdough donatd by Rosa Story
Slow Smoked Leg of Lamb donated by @bluroosterfarm

Dessert :
Chocolate Dipped Rose Madeleines served with Vanilla Bean Custard Ice Cream and sun ripened peach compote donated by @laurellington and @fabulous_babbs_icecreamco

Even if you cannot join us at the table for a Freedom Dinner, we invite you to be a part of the fight for freedom. Click here to donate!

Join us for this very special event at Twig & Vine flower farm: dahlias, watercolors, and a beautiful meal in lovely creative company!

This is your invitation to paint and play with Sarah Simon @TheMintGardener’s watercolor instruction, learn how to harvest dahlias with a lovely you-pick take-home bouquet with Deanna Kitchen @twigandvine, and enjoy delicious light bites and beverages with Kelly Welk @kellywelk, the owner of Ciderpress Lane and creator of #freedomdinners. Widely known for its exceptional scenery, Deanna Kitchen’s beautiful pacific northwest property is a perfect little day-getaway, tucked between the mountains and the coast just an hour north of Seattle, in the heart of Skagit county. Come enjoy this creative feast, take a mindful evening to pause the everyday and soak in the slow beauty of painting, flowers and good food.

**Ticket link will take you to an eventbrite site to purchase tickets, away from ciderpresslane.com.

The Painting

After this class with Sarah, you will be skilled and knowledgeable, with the new ability to see and recreate the watercolor process, layer by layer.

During our time together, you will learn the techniques Sarah uses for watercolor, and see how she uniquely teaches the foundations of this art as a transferable and mindful skill. Sarah teaches you step-by-step in her NEW book, Watercolor Workbook: Flowers, Feathers & Animal Friends, and once you know how to paint a few flowing washes, that knowledge can be used to paint a fabulous project together from the book. The possibilities are endless with this beautiful art form. Once you work through the foundations together, learn the steps to paint in her new book, together with Sarah. You will work on the pre-drawn template of the project in the book, so no drawing is required.

With this class registration, you will receive all of the materials you need to continue to paint at home: brushes, paints and of course…your own signed copy of Sarah's new Watercolor Workbook! Sarah cannot wait for you to join her; to fall in love with the flowing freedom of watercolor, and the beauty of watching paint and water dance along your pages.

The Flowers

Prepare to be immersed in beauty as you stroll up and down the flower field rows in peak bloom, taking in the unique beauty of over 500 dahlias, heirloom annual blooms and fragrant herbs and foliage for cut bouquets. After your you-pick session with Deanna, you'll not only leave with a lush bouquet of dahlias, but you’ll also be equipped with new knowledge and skills you can take home and apply to your garden or floral design endeavors. You'll learn how to identify proper stage of harvest for dahlias, annual blooms and foliage, how to harvest to encourage new growth in your plants, plus methods for post harvest handling to maximize vase life, floral design tips and inspiration for sharing flowers. A glass vase is provided, for you to safely tuck your blooms in for the journey home.

The Food

Kelly Welk is bringing her fresh from the garden Private Chef goodness straight to the flower farm. Creating a spread of savory and sweet lite bites for us to enjoy as we sip and stroll through the flowers. Her dishes are fresh and flavorful, made with all of the goodness straight from their gardens at Ciderpress Lane. She’s creating a feast of summer flavors that everyone can enjoy!

• Fresh Berry Mint infused water

• Grapefruit Mint Summer Spritzers

• Roasted Red Pepper Dip with Julienned Vegetables and Veggies Crisps (gluten + dairy free)

• Watermelon Mint Skewers

• Crostini with Rhubarb Preserves & Creamy Herbed Cheese

• Mandarin Orange Mini Bundt Cakes with Mandarin Glaze (gluten + dairy free)

• Decaf Coffee

We hope you'll join us for this special evening!

About Sarah:

Artist and author Sarah Simon, a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to watercolor and with her teaching talents, has made it such an approachable and enjoyable art form, both for the experienced and novice alike. Her book Watercolor Workbook provides everything you need to know about the art of watercolor and has been the #1 best-selling watercolor book in the world for the past three years! And now, in this NEW workbook, Sarah offers 25 MORE watercolor projects that you can sit down and enjoy painting today.

About Deanna:

Deanna Kitchen is a flower farmer and floral designer. Together with her family, she operates Twig and Vine Farm, a microscale cut flower farm specializing in dahlias. Deanna’s heart for gathering, teaching and community service, led her to founding The Growing Kindness™ Project. Deanna quickly learned the joy of freely giving flowers as acts of kindness and catalysts for meaningful connection and she set out to find ways to help others experience the same. The Growing Kindness Project now leads a global team of over 2500 gardeners and farmers who are on a mission to change the world with kindness, one stem at a time. In pursuit of simplicity, Deanna has stepped away from social media, but you can follow along with the farm at www.twigandvinefarm.com or check out past stories and images on instagram @twigandvine. You can follow along with Growing Kindness on instagram @growingkindnessproject or learn more a www.growingkindnessproject.org.

Come stroll through the flowers with a Summer Spritzer in hand, take a seat under the orchard lights and enjoy a leisurely summer evening in the garden. We’ll show you how to make fresh muddled mint spritzers and how we use fresh mint in our summer small bites. Then we’ll sit, sip and enjoy together. Sweet Red Tin Treats and Coffee will be served as the cherry on top of a magical evening together.

We are planning for all the whimsy and magic of a summer evening together knowing that this beauty is giving so much freedom. 10% of all profits from this evening are donated to Atlas Free to continue the fight to end human trafficking.

Come stroll through the flowers with a Summer Spritzer in hand, take a seat under the orchard lights and enjoy a leisurely summer evening in the garden. We’ll show you how to make fresh muddled lavender spritzers and how we use fresh herbs in our summer small bites. Then we’ll sit, sip and enjoy together. Sweet Red Tin Treats and Coffee will be served as the cherry on top of a magical evening together.

We are planning for all the whimsy and magic of a summer evening together knowing that this beauty is giving so much freedom. 10% of all profits from this evening are donated to Atlas Free to continue the fight to end human trafficking.

We’re firing up the pizza oven, getting all of the toppings and our favorite pizza dough ready all so we can spend the evening enjoying pizza together around the orchard tables.

We’ll start off with a Thai Flatbread and then you’ll get a chance to top your own pizza! If you’re feeling brave we’ll have you slide it into the pizza oven and then on to your plate for dinner.

Pizza night is an eat as it’s ready kind of dinner so we’ll be sure to fill the salad bowls, drinks and side dishes so that everyone can enjoy the most leisurely evening of great food.

For dessert we’ll enjoy lemon squares with fresh whipping cream and decaf coffee.

We cannot wait to welcome you in to the orchard for a fun PIzza Night together! We are planning these evenings to be intimate, hands on, dinner experiences filled with rich flavors and most of all leisurely time spent dining together. Think the best cooking class you’ve ever been to, where you don’t need to know a thing, you get to cook with your goblet in hand, and leave all of the dishes to us while you sit back and soak in an evening at the table.

Grab your friends, your partner, your Mom and join us! There are just 20 seats at the table, with one dinner each season.

And save these dates because we have more Cooking Class Dinners on the calendar for the Fall, in our kitchen and at the orchard table for more than just dinner.

Friday September 15th - Cornbread and Marinated Steaks, Grilled Corn and a big autumn Salad, plus all the decadent dessert at the orchard table (we may need the tent but it will be cozy!)

Friday November 10th : Turkey Pot Pie - full on friendsgiving style meal in our main room! We’ll make Turkey Pot Pies together and nibble on small bites and sip winter fizz while they bake.

We’ll be using as many seasonal items as possible, our own fresh garden herbs and produce when available, all to share our love of delicious food, our favorite recipes and flavors with you!

We cannot wait to welcome you into our kitchen and to our table.

We suggest a donation of $150 to reserve a seat at the table, but friend … we know every budget is different, our number one goal is to gather our community. Give what you can knowing the ripple effect goes beyond this one dinner.

Even if you cannot join us at the table for a Freedom Dinner, we invite you to be a part of the fight for freedom. Click here to donate!

Freedom Dinners are hands down our favorite event to host at our Orchard Tables. Each dinner is unique with the menu and decor determined by what is in season and what members of our community are donating to make it possible.

Every member of the team is a volunteer, every piece of decor is donated for use, all menu items are created by members of the community and in order to reserve seats at the table each guest gives a donation to Atlas Free. The donations act as your ticket purchase which means every penny can go straight to those who need our help the most. Quite truly, these dinners are the most beautiful potluck that fights human trafficking!

Click here to read more about how the Freedom Dinners began and what to expect.

June 23 Menu + Beauty :

Appetizers

Watermelon Berry Mint Skewers with a Honey Lime Drizzle⁠, served with mint from our garden 

Rhubarb Crostini with Creamy Herbed Cheese Spread⁠, made from rhubarb from our garden

Dinner

Beet + Blueberry Mixed Green Salad, greens donated by @rootsfarmwa and salad makings donated by @harbornest

Homemade Sourdough Bread baked by @thefiveloavesbaker⁠ 

French Style Baby Potatoes⁠

Ciderhouse Smoked Chicken⁠, this is our familys’ all time favorite secret sauce chicken! ⁠ 

Dessert⁠

Decaf Coffee roasted by @craigcoffeeco⁠

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake made by @bakesbydani26 

Wine

donated by Tamara Johnson

Cocktails + Spritzers 

Provided by @hitchedmobilebar ⁠

Odet photography is capturing the evening

Manette Flower Co is creating the florals

Mollie Marigold is designing the menus, place cards and signs

and there is an entire team of volunteers coming to prep, serve and wash dishes

We’re looking forward to welcoming each of you to the table. Check back soon for more details!

Small Bites Hands on Workshop

March 2, 6-8pm

at Harbornest in downtown Gig Harbor

We’re gathering a fresh spread of Charcuterie Small Bites, Sweet Red Tin Treats, dishes and details for a fun evening at Harbornest in downtown Gig Harbor. This hands on workshop will include all of the yummy details to help you get ready for Springtime hosting.

Kelly will share her heart for hosting, some of her favorite tips for making it stress free, plus she’ll show you all the elements she loves to include on charcuturie boards, tips on how to arrange them and then you’ll get to create your own!

Each guest will create their own delicious small bites spread to enjoy as you mingle and shop.

Plus Harbornest is filling their displays with so many fun hosting elements, so come ready to shop, sip and savor an evening together.

This is a ticketed event limited to 25 tickets - we’ll have the shop all to ourselves with plenty of space for mingling, shopping and enjoying the evening together. Be sure to reserve your spot! Details for the evening will be emailed to you once you complete your ticket purchase.

Whether you’re bringing your kiddo, a friend or coming as a date - come decorate Valentine cookies together!

This Event is held at Ciderpress Lane, in Bremerton WA

Monday February 13th 10am, 2pm and 5pm

Come join us in our cozy main room for a fun Valentine Date. Kelly will show you a few frosting tricks then you’ll get to have fun decorating cookies at your station. The cookie stations will be set up for everyone to have fun adding frosting and sprinkles to their cookies. We’ll have cookie boxes ready for you to fill with your creations, plus each guest will recieve the recipes for both our Sugar Cookies and Frosting. Each Cookie Decorating Session runs for 1 hour with ample time for you to sip coffee and enjoy valentine fun together.

Tickets include:

• space for you to decorate 12 large sugar cookies

• 1 ticket, reserves 1 station. You are welcome to come and decorate your cookies on your own, or bring your kiddo or a friend to join you in the fun.

• each guest will go home with their cookies plus the recipes for both the sugar cookies and icing

No cooking experience needed - these Cooking Classes are perfect for anyone at any level. All ingredients are provided for you to learn, create and head home with an experience you’ll always remember.

Small Bites Hands on Workshop

October 20, 6-8pm

at Harbornest in downtown Gig Harbor

We’re gathering all of the Charcuterie Small Bites, Sweet Red Tin Treats, dishes and details for a fun evening at Harbornest in downtown Gig Harbor. This hands on workshop will include all of the yummy details to help you get ready for holiday hosting.

Kelly will share her heart for hosting, some of her favorite tips for making it stress free, plus she’ll show you all the elements she loves to include on charcuturie boards, tips on how to arrange them and then you’ll get to create your own!

Each guest will be given their own charcuterie board to create a delicious small bites spread to enjoy as you mingle and shop.

Harbornest is gifting each guest their charcuterie board! Plus they are filling their displays with so many fun hosting elements, so come ready to shop, sip and savor an evening together.

This is a ticketed event with limited space, be sure to reserve your spot! Details for the evening will be emailed to you once you complete your ticket purchase.

September 22

10 am & 6pm

at Ciderpress Lane

That crisp feel of Fall is just around the corner and the apple trees are ready for it. We’re just beginning to harvest bucket fulls of fresh apples and want to share our favorite Apple Crisp recipe with you!

In this hands on cooking class you’ll learn our tricks to making the crisp tart and yet so decadent, how to prep it ahead of time to make for easy hosting, plus you’ll get to create your own to bring home and bake whenever you’re ready.

Each guest will receive their own Red La Tauci ceramic pie dish to make their apple crisp in. We’re thrilled to be able to give each of our guests a piece of red bakeware to bring home to continue making your own Red Tin Treats!

We’ll begin the workshop sampling the apple crisp we’ll be making, along with our favorite Thumb Print Scones. Then we’ll dive in to the fun. Kelly will talk you thru the entire process from the best thickness of apples for crisp, to all of the ingredients for the crumble topping. Then you’ll get your hands busy making your own.

We cannot wait to welcome you into the orchard and our kitchen as we bake and welcome Fall together!

All The Details:

• This hands on cooking class will last for about 2 hours

• Each guest will be given their own Red La Tauci Pie Plate

• We do ask that each guest bring their own : peeler, cutting board and knife

• Bring your favorite apron too! We have quite a selection to choose from that you are welcome to use but it’s always fun to see everyone decked out in their favorite aprons.

• Weather permitting, this class will be held in the Orchard. If by chance the weather is wet and cold, the class will be moved into our main room.

All details for this class will be emailed to you once your ticket purchase is completed.

If you’d like to be the first to know when our workshops and classes open, be sure to join our email list here. We give our email pen pals first dibs at all event tickets plus recipes, gardening and hosting tips throughout the year!

Seats are Now OPEN for our August 23rd Freedom Dinner!

We’re gathering the donations and building the volunteer team for the most powerful evening gathered at the Orchard Tables. The menu is being finalized as donations come in but we can already say that the Hitched Mobile Bar will be joining us, flowers from Willow and Mabel Garden Co, and so much more beautiful and delicious fun is coming in from the community.

If you’re intested in donating toward this dinner email us - we would love to add you to our donation team!

Want to know more about the Freedom Dinners? Click here for the full story on how they began and how they continue to give back in the biggest way to AtlasFree.Org

July 18, 7-9pm : at Ciderpress Lane

Come join us for a Mid Summer Night of strolling through the flowers and creating your own flower comb.

We’ll start at the tables in the orchard with sweet Red Tin Treats and Summer Spritzers where Kelly will teach you how to create your own flower comb. Then we’ll take a stroll through the garden showing you which flowers work best for creating flower combs. Once everyone has their flowers we’ll head back to the orchard to enjoy the rest of the evening creating together.

We cannot wait to welcome you into the garden and orchard for a dreamy summer evening, sipping spritzers, enjoying sweet Red Tin Treats and truly enjoying creating beauty together.

Each Guest will go home with their own Flower Comb and all of the tips and tricks to fill it with beauty again and again!

What’s included?

• Everything needed to create your own flower comb

• Fresh flowers from the Ciderpress Lane cutting garden

• Red Tin Treats and Summer Spritzers

• An evening strolling through the garden and enjoying time at the orchard tables

Would you like a schedule your own evening in the cutting garden? We would be honored to host your group for a private workshop. Email Us for more details.

Join Kelly in her Garden for a Hands On Dinner Experience.

Friday June 24th | 6pm | at Ciderpress Lane

From the Spritzer to the Small Bites, the Salad and Sweet Red Tin Treat, you’ll experience dinner in a new way, fresh from the garden and created by you. Whether you love cooking or gardening, this evening will be pure delight as we work together to make fresh summer dishes, all for us to enjoy as we gather at the table together.

There are only 10 seats available, making this an intimate and unforgettable dinner experience.

We’ll begin in the Orchard where Kelly will show you how to make one of her favorite Summer Spritzers. With goblets in hand, we’ll stroll through the garden, creating small bites and then arriving at the Garden Table for the Main Course.

The Menu

Lemon Lavender Spritzers

Crostini with Balsamic Roasted Cherries and fresh Thyme

Kale, Grilled Corn, Fresh Blueberries, Radishes and Toasted Pecan Salad with a Balsamic Glaze

Grilled Cajun Salmon

French Style Potato Salad

Salted Caramel Squares with Decaf Coffee

Get ready for a magical evening enjoying the garden, delicious fresh food and a dose of joy from gathering together. The evening begins at 6pm with ample time to stroll, sip and enjoy. Dessert and coffee will be served by 8:30 pm. Guests are welcome to stay and enjoy a leisurely end to the evening. We’ll warn you, the garden table is a magical place to end the day so come ready to sit back and soak it in.

Each Guest will go home with the recipes for the entire menu so you can create it again!

Details and directions will be emailed to you after you complete your reservation.

*if our weather is drizzly we’ll have a tent for us to gather under for dinner.

We cannot wait to welcome you into our garden and to our table - Kelly + Aaron

10% of all profits from this dinner are donated to Rescue:Freedom Int to aid in the fight to end Human Trafficking.

If you’d like to be the first to know when reservations open for the August Dinner, join our email list. We give our email pen pals first dibs at all the goodness.

We look forward to having you join us at the table soon - check out the other opportunities this summer!

You will notice that the price is set to $0 … we as a business do not take any portion of the proceeds from these dinners, every penny is given directly to Rescue:Freedom. Once you’ve reserved your seats through our system you’ll be emailed instructions on how to give your donation for your seats!

We’re gathering the donations and building the volunteer team for the most powerful evening gathered at the Orchard Tables.

We’ll be updating the details as they come together but for now just know that the menu and evening is shaping up to be the most beautiful reflection of the heart of our community - consider this the loveliest pot luck feast you’ve ever been too…and no you do not need to bring a dish. We’re organizing the volunteers who are doing all of the baking and cooking!

If you’re intested in donating toward the menu for this dinner or being part of the volunteer team email us - we would love to add you to our volunteer and donation team!

Want to know more about the Freedom Dinners? Click here for the full story on how they began and how they continue to give back in the biggest way to Rescue:Freedom Int.