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Welcome to the Wright-Locke Farm Cooking School! We offer a variety of hands-on cooking classes with both our Farm Chef Kelcy and other amazing food educators in the area. Adult workshops include time for eating dinner after you finish cooking. Youth workshops pack up their food in to-go boxes to enjoy outside of class.
All classes are hands-on.
Upcoming Kitchen Education Programs
Upcoming workshops
Cook From The Book- The Effortless Kitchen Cookbook with Debbie Brosnan
Tuesday 4/25 from 6-8 PM
Join Chef Debbie Brosnan of The Effortless Kitchen as she teaches you two dishes from her Amazon-bestselling cookbook and the many ways to use the recipe for other meals.
The menu includes Kale and Spring Pea Pasta with Ricotta and Grilled Romaine Salad with Green Goddess Dressing.
Debbie Brosnan of the Effortless Kitchen loves all things food and found her way from personal chef to virtual cooking class instructor as she and her business adapted with the need for virtual events. Debbie is a passionate self-taught home cook who began her journey cooking alongside her mother and grandmother as a young child. Her focus is on healthy food that tastes amazing using simple recipes so that those who take her classes will continue to make those dishes and others in their own kitchens.
Using the recipes she has been teaching in class, Debbie wrote The Effortless Kitchen Cookbook: Simple, Healthy, and Delicious Recipes That Make Everyday Cooking Effortless, which is an Amazon bestseller.
For more information and to register, click here.
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Winter Mini Series: Grades 4th-6th
Program meet once per week on Wednesday from 4:30-6:00 pm for Grades 4th- 6th. Meets 2/1, 2/8, and 2/15.
Join Chef Kelcy for this fun and engaging 3-week series designed to help your littles become confident home cooks!
Chef Kelcy will work with each student on the basics of cooking through a series of delicious recipes, including; handmade pasta, creampuffs, healthy snacks, and more! Class size is limited to 8 participants to ensure each student gets the help they need to master cooking in the kitchen!
Class fee covers cost of food.
Masks are required at all times unless smelling or tasting our food.
Space is limited and tiered pricing is available. For more information and to register, click here. ~registration opens 1/17 at noon
Spring Seasons Eating: Middle School program
Program meet once per week on Wednesday from 4:00-6:00 pm for Grades 6th, 7th, 8th. Spring Session meets 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 3/5. Feast is 3/5 at 6 PM
Join Chef Kelcy at Wright-Locke Farm for her after school program in the kitchen! In this session, she will be welcoming in her students with an apron, a smile, and a wealth of knowledge about foods of the season.
For this six-week program, the students will be spending the first 5 weeks focusing on a different food color of the season, emphasizing learning more about eating with the seasons and the nutrition behind the shades. Classes will also teach basic cooking skills and techniques to help the students feel comfortable and confident in the kitchen!
Week 6, we will celebrate the bounty of the seasons with the “Seasons Eating Feast” that Chef Kelcy and the student will spend most of the program planning. It will consist of a beautiful meal curated by the children that take all the colors and lessons they learned in the previous 5 weeks and turns it into a meal that families are invited to come and share with all of us.
Class fee covers cost of food.
Masks are required at all times unless smelling or tasting our food.
Space is limited and tiered pricing is available. For more information and to register, click here. ~registration opens 1/17 at noon
Summer Farm-to-Table Middle School program
Program meets from 9AM to 12PM on Monday 8/14- Thursday 8/17.
Join Chef Kelcy on the Farm this summer for a unique and inspired Farm-to-Table summer program. Students will spend a portion of each day out on the farm, learning all about what it takes to grow and amazing food we eat every day. We will spend the rest of the program cooking a variety of delicious seasonal recipes and working on developing our basic kitchen still. Students will finish the week with an appreciation of their food and where it comes from along with confidence to recreate all the recipes at home!
Class fee covers cost of food.
Masks are required at all times unless smelling or tasting our food.
Space is limited, and tiered pricing is available. For more information and to register, click here. ~registration opens 1/17 at noon
Our Family Holiday Cookie Workshops will be back in December 2023!
We have transitioned to a new registration system!
Please use this link to log in or create an account in the new system.
If you had an account in our previous registration system:
- Select “Forgot your login information?” and check “I need to reset my password.” Choose your preferred way of resetting your password (text or email). On the next screen, your username is the email that is associated with our previous registration system. If you have issues resetting your password, please email FarmEd@WLFarm.org
If you did not have an account in our previous system:
- Select “New User.” Complete the subsequent forms to create your account.
Thank you for your patience as we transition to a new registration system! If you encounter any issues, please contact FarmEd@WLFarm.org with any questions.
Program Terms
Please carefully read these policies prior to submitting your registration. Contact our Education Director with any questions.
Payment & Refund Policy:
- Online payments can be made via the following credit or debit cards: Visa, MasterCard, Discover
- Those who opt to “pay later” at registration must submit payment at least 2 days prior to a workshop to be guaranteed their spot.
- Full tuition refunds minus a $5 administrative fee are guaranteed up to 7 days prior to a workshop.
- A 50% tuition refund is guaranteed up to 3 days prior to a workshop.
- No tuition refund is given for participant cancellations within 2 days of a workshop or for failure to attend a workshop.
- A full tuition refund will be given in the event Wright-Locke Farm cancels a workshop.
Photo & Video Policy:
- The Conservancy may take photos and digital video footage of activities throughout the educational program season for record-keeping and publicity purposes. Participant names are never used in connection with these photos or videos.
Liability Statement (Permission for the Conservancy to handle emergencies):
- I realize injuries can occur from participation in cooking programs. I hereby waive, release, absolve, indemnify, and agree to hold harmless the Wright-Locke Farm Conservancy, Inc., their Board of Directors, instructors, or assignees, and the Town of Winchester from any claim arising out of injury to myself. Should I [or my child] be taken to the hospital for emergency purposes, I hereby grant permission to the attending physician and staff to administer anesthesia, medical, X-ray, and surgical procedures as may be deemed necessary or advisable.
Due to the close working conditions of the kitchen and lack of windows or easy air ventilation, ALL youth workshops require masks the whole time (unless tasting or smelling) to participate.
Adult workshops are mask optional based on the comfort of the individual. If you have any cold/flu/or COVID symptoms we ask that you please stay home.
Thanks for helping to keep our kitchen community safe and we look forward to seeing you in the kitchen!
Meet Our Farm Chef, Kelcy!
Hello Everyone! It is with great pleasure and honor that I introduce myself as the Farm Chef and Kitchen Manager for the Wright-Locke Farm All Seasons Barn! I am so grateful to be apart of this amazing farm and working with some seriously passionate people.
Accepting this job has been a 10-year journey for me… To read more and get a delicious dessert recipe, click here!
To stay up to date with everything I am up to on the farm check out Kelcy’s Corner below!
Check out my website or follow me on social media!
Happy cooking, friends!
One of the best parts of working at a farm is thinking about delicious ways to eat the food we grow and sell! Click here for some of our favorites. Let us know what you think!
You never know where a coffee shop conversation will take you.
This past weekend I was enjoying some coffee when a woman came by to pet my pup, Lilly. We started talking and, no surprise, the conversation turned to food and culture. Born in India, Soumita was quick to start talking about the food of her country and as soon as I shared with her that I was planning on making Saag Paneer that evening for dinner, she lit up! We started discussing cooking methods, how to make different Indian breads and then moved on to the subject of the paneer. For those who don’t know, Paneer is an Indian cheese that has a very low melting point and is perfect for soaking up all the yummy flavors of whatever sauce you throw it in. Soumita was kind enough to share with me the perfect method for making sure your paneer is the best it can possibly be; soak the paneer in warm salt water for 5-7 minutes to soften it up and then give it a quick fry to caramelize the sugars before tossing it into your sauce. It is sure to absorb the flavors that much more and, in her own words, “everything comes back to life in water.” I, for one, am super excited to try out this new cooking method and am so grateful to Soumita for sharing her wisdom.
Happy cooking friends!
~ Chef Kelcy
This past week I had the pleasure of hosting the first in-house farm supper at Wright-Locke Farm;
Fall programming is up and running at the farm and so is the kitchen!
More upcoming workshops and events will be listed soon!
Email FarmChef@wlfarm.org with questions or for more information.
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