Mushrooms of the Lanna Kingdom
2020-10-08 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Over the last year, Chef Zachary Mazi has lived, explored, and foraged for mushrooms from his base of Chiang Mai. During this virtual lecture, he’ll explore the culture of foraging and cooking with mushrooms in Northern Thailand.

Webcast: Western Oregon Mushrooms
2020-10-14 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Is it raining yet? In this presentation, mushroom expert Bruce Newhouse will guide us in looking over, under, around and through western Oregon for fungi, and get to know a few and what roles they have – especially in our forests. We’ll get familiar with the words “mycorrhizal, saprobic and parasitic” and have some fun along the way. There will be some focus at the end on hunting, cooking and preserving edible fungi, since that is of such great interest to a lot of people.

Building Resilient Food Systems for Global Food Security and Nutrition
2020-10-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join for a World Food Prize side event co-hosted by the FAO North America and the Alliance to End Hunger to learn about the actions needed to promote more resilient and sustainable food systems.

Food systems in the time of COVID-19: North American perspectives on how the FAO can contribute to greater resilience
2020-10-23 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
COVID-19 has disrupted nearly every element of every food system on earth. From international commodity markets to local cooperatives, from consumption patterns to transport protocols, from access to farm labour to reforming the retail sector – the pandemic is stress-testing every element of global and local food systems.
The FAO defines resilience as, “the ability to prevent disasters and crises as well as to anticipate, absorb, accommodate or recover from them in a timely, efficient and sustainable manner”.
How have food systems fared through this crisis?
Join senior government officials from Canada and the U.S., as well as representatives from the private sector and civil society mechanisms of the U.N. Committee on World Food Security and senior leaders from the FAO to discuss these issues and more .

How can we produce food and take action for climate and natural resources?
2021-02-11 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Nature-based Solutions in agriculture are a critical solution for positive change. Farmers, ranchers, and food producers are on the frontlines of climate change, and play an important role in developing and implementing solutions. Climate and biodiversity actors are increasingly seeing agriculture as a central solution set and they are engaging the agricultural community to solve our collective challenges.

When deployed properly, Nature-based Solutions can provide a triple benefit: improving the productivity and resilience of agriculture, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and enhancing nature and biodiversity.

FAO and The Nature Conservancy collaborated to explore the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the much-needed transformation of our food systems, delivering nutrition for people while restoring nature and the climate. This collaboration has generated three reports addressing NbS in agricultural production systems: 1) A literature review on the state of the science, 2) a policy brief on the case and pathways for adoption, and 3) a finance guide for identifying and creating investable projects.

Gather: First Foods Discussion and Q&A
2021-05-18 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join Confluence for an online discussion of the film Gather with cast members. Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
The documentary follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath River. You can read more about it here.

Pressure Canning Preserve-Along
2021-06-09 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Practice or review pressure canning steps and tips in this hands-on interactive session. Session guides will be sent by email on Friday, June 4 prior to this workshop with ingredients, supplies and steps to take in advance.
PLEASE NOTE: Payments are non-refundable if you find you cannot attend

Webcast: First Foods and Life Cycles
2021-08-11 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Tune in for the First Foods and Life Cycles Webcast with Wenix Red Elk to learn more about native plant and animal species and their connection to the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes of the CTUIR.

Small Farm Business School
2021-11-10 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Ever wonder about resources to help guide your farm business to the next level? Small Farm Business School, a subset of Small Farm School, is a perfect opportunity for beginning farmers to learn more about three important topics – land leasing, farm taxes and business plans. Join FoFF for a virtual day of business courses on November 10th from 10am to 2pm. $20 registration gives you access to all 3 sessions and recordings. Discounted registrations are available for students and participants of farm education programs. Full scholarships for Oregon Veteran farmers and Black, Indigenous and other farmers of color are available.

Agriculture as Humanitarian Action: Addressing Immediate Needs and the Root Causes of Hunger
2021-12-15 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
What comes to mind when you think of humanitarian actions? Chances are, it is not seeds and livestock. Yet, agriculture is among the most cost-effective humanitarian interventions — saving livelihoods to save lives. Unfortunately, this is not reflected in our collective response to a number of major ongoing crises.
Join for a policy discussion hosted by FAO North America in partnership with CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps and Save the Children on the urgent need to consider how we are responding to humanitarian crises, and to ensure that agriculture — and efforts to improve resilience and protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable communities — is a central part of our response.

High Tech, Next Gen: The Future of Sustainable Agriculture
2022-02-25 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The climate is changing, and so are the ways farmers grow and improve agriculture. Planet Forward and FAO North America host a panel discussion about the next generation of farmers and how ag is changing. You’ll hear how youth are getting involved, and how we can ensure they have a “seat at the table” when it comes to the future of agriculture, plus we’ll learn how farmers around the world use technology to improve crop yield and food security.

Professional Development for K–12 educators.
2025-01-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 375 SW Powerhouse Dr Suite 100, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Professional Development
This virtual workshop is for K–12 educators across multiple content areas. Confluence Professional Development’s purpose is to educate teachers in the pedagogy of Indigenous curriculum and lessons. It is to prepare adults, teachers, and educators with a more perceptive understanding of Native American lifeways, history, cultural traditions, and ecology that define our Native identity.
Over the two-day virtual workshop, the cohort will learn directly from Indigenous workshop facilitators/speakers and have the opportunity to think through Indigenous education concepts together using materials from Confluence Media Library, our publications, Columbia River Sites, and our work from Camp Confluence and Confluence in the Classroom. We will also show the parallels of our work at Confluence with Oregon’s Tribal History/Shared History and Washington’s Since Time Immemorial curriculums.
This cohort will meet on Zoom on Jan. 21 and Jan. 28 at 4–6pm. Our theme this month is:
Voices of the River Volume 1: Stories to Be Told – Ancestors Always Present
Register HERE

A Year in the Life: Oregon’s Desert Owls
2025-02-04 18:00 - 19:00 | 375 SW Powerhouse Dr Suite 100, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join Oregon Natural Desert Association as they kick off their 2025 High Desert Speaker Series with an absorbing evening all about high desert owls. Paul Bannick, acclaimed author and wildlife photographer, will take you through four seasons in the lives of these owls to give you a better appreciation of what they need to survive and thrive in each season. With stunning, intimate images, Paul will bring the stories of these adorable yet fierce predators to life and reveal their unique roles in the high desert ecosystem from its driest lands to its ponderosa pine woodlands.

Tiny Titans: Insects of the High Desert
2025-02-20 19:00 - 20:00 | 375 SW Powerhouse Dr Suite 100, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Get ready for an exciting exploration into the crucial role insects play in Oregon’s high desert. Oregon Natural Desert Association’s High Desert Speaker Series continues with Dr. Tara Cornelisse, invertebrate zoologist, as she provides insights into the fascinating butterflies, moths and beetles residing in eastern Oregon. Tara will examine the current state of insect populations, share facts and stories about key species in the high desert, and highlight why conserving the high desert is vital for the future of insect populations and the entire ecosystem.

El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day)
2025-04-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Hugh Hartman Elementary School, 2105 W Antler Ave, Redmond, OR, 97756, United States
El día de los niños/El diía de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30.
Día is a nationally recognized initiative that emphasizes the importance of literacy for all children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. It is a daily commitment to linking children and their families to diverse books, languages, and cultures. The common goals of all Día programming are to:

Celebrate children and connect them to the world of learning through books, stories and libraries.
Nurture cognitive and literacy development in ways that honor and embrace a child’s home language and culture.
Introduce families to community resources that provide opportunities for learning through multiple literacies.
Recognize and respect culture, heritage and language as powerful tools for strengthening families and communities.

WHAT: El Dia de los Niños, El Dia de los Libros also known as EL DIA (Childrenś Day/Book Day)
WHEN: Friday, April 25th, 2025 from 6 to 8 pm (Partners arriving from 5 pm on)
WHERE: Hugh Hartman Elementary School, Redmond, Oregon
El Dia event is organized in partnership with the Deschutes Public Library (liaison Diana Hernandez), and Hugh Hartman Elementary School part of Redmond School District. (liaison Jessica Pickens).
