Events & Workshops     

Stay tuned for 2025 Workshops & Events!

See Events Calendar below and Volunteer Page for more fun opportunities.

On-Farm Summer Workshops

Every summer, LSFP hosts free/low-cost workshops on Rugged Roots farm. Workshops cover a range of subjects- from food preservation to flower arranging. A workshop scheduled is announced at the beginning of the season— stay tuned for our 2025 schedule!

Jar of Rugged Roots veggies prepped to be pressure canned at a Pressure Canning Workshop led by Canning Masters from UC Extension in partnership with the Feather River Food System Collaborative.

Feather River College' Culinary Arts instructor Chef Sean Conry leads a free cooking class sponsored by Plumas County Public Health’s CalFresh Program.

Workshop participants display their fall wreaths using material harvested on Rugged Roots farm at local florist Carolyn Rouse’s Fall Wreath Making Workshop.

Summer ‘24 Workshop Series

  • Creative Preservation

  • Syrup Making

  • Mak Kimchi

  • Cooking Demo

  • Herbal Crafts

  • Pressure Canning

  • Farm Bird Tour

  • Bouquet Arranging

  • Eco Dye with Food Scraps

  • Floral Watercolor

  • Floral Wreath Arranging

Rugged Roots
Farm Events

Dancin’ in the Dirt- 2025 TBD

Brewing Lair Fundraiser- 2025 TBD

Pumpkin Patch - October 5, 2025

All events are fundraisers for Lost Sierra Food Projects
programs in Plumas County.

If you are an outside org interested in doing an event at Rugged Roots,
contact Emma at events@lostsierrafoodproject.org

Rugged Roots Pumpkin Patch

First Saturday in October

Location: Rugged Roots Farm
Quincy, CA

Time: 11am to 3pm

A yearly community event you don’t want to miss. Featuring food, music, kids activities, locally brewed beer and wine, homegrown pumpkins and fresh produce.

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Calendar of Events

Follow @lostsierrafoodproject to stay up to date on workshops + events

One of Lost Sierra Food Project’s objectives is to increase access to locally grown, farm-fresh produce. Throughout the 2024 season, LSFP donated produce and flowers grown on Rugged Roots farm to crisis centers, schools and community orgs. He
Meet Marielle! She is LSFP’s first full-time @grizzlycorps fellow (previously we have shared fellows part-time with partner organizations) and we are so excited to have her here. She will be working with us until July 2025 and is spearheading o
This past month, Beth (LSFP Program Manager + PUSD Garden Educator) and Marielle (LSFP Grizzly Corps Fellow) brought pumpkins from Rugged Roots farm to Alder Elementary School and had students open the pumpkins + remove seeds for roasting. Beth and M
High altitude farming is all about learning to live with change. Still, every year the end of the farming season comes with mixed emotions. Is it really fall already? It’s hard to let go of summer’s abundance and to accept those frosty mo
A major goal of the #FarmToSchool movement is ensuring that students have access to fresh, healthy foods produced locally. When planning what to grow this season, LSFP worked with PUSD cafeteria staff so that we could best accommodate their needs.
In the spirit of October being #FarmToSchoolMonth, we are sharing some photos and stats from fall semester field trips at LSFP’s Rugged Roots Farm in Quincy. In the past year, 435 TK-5th grade students have visited Rugged Roots farm on field t
Have your kids told you about the crunchy veggies and sweet strawberries they have sampled at school this semester? In September and October the Feather River Food System Collaborative has organized 8 “Try it Thursdays” at school cafeteri
October is National Farm to School Month! The mission of the farm to school movement is to connect local farms, school cafeterias, and students for increased access to fresh, healthy foods. Farm to school is also about agricultural education and loca
Tomorrow (10/15) is our last on-farm event for the season--a glean! From 5-7pm come harvest tomatos, peppers, rogue kale and random herbs, the last of the flowers, and loads of basil. Please BYOB (bring your own bag or basket). We have snips and clip

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Visit Us

601 Crescent St.
HWY 70 across from Gansner Field Quincy, CA 95971

Volunteer Coordinator
Emma Talamantes
events@lostsierrafoodproject.org