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4-H Fall Harvest Cooking Night

Join us for a fun filled fall cooking night! We will be making dishes with pumpkins, apples, and butternut squash! This program is for youth ages 10-18. It will be held at the Dare County Cooperative…

Hoop house interior with long black-lined troughs and white salt-like piles

Hatteras Saltworks, Buxton, NC

Brian McMahon is a solar-powered-hoop house-sea salt-farmer. Utilizing the sun and a seemingly endless supply of ingenuity and patience, he harvests salt from seawater, rendering it as pure and…

Sliced pumpkin bread loaf on wooden cutting board with pecans and small decorative pumpkins

Pumpkin Bread Class

Crisp Fall weather calls for a special treat, and homemade Pumpkin Bread fits the bill! Make and sample a delicious loaf with new and old friends. If there's any left, use it to make Pumpkin Bread…

Pile of sliced cucumber rounds showing seeds and green rind

Bread & Butter Pickles Class

*** NOTE: The date for this class has changed to August 2, 2022 *** Bread & butter pickles are thin rounds of cucumber with the skins on, pickled in a liquid of vinegar, sugar and spices. There…

Two jars labeled "HAY POINT Live Culture Foods" (Sauerkraut, Kraut Kimchi) among cabbages

Hay Point Live Culture Foods

Hay Point Live Culture Foods Are you in need of a SCOBY? You are if you’re planning to brew a batch of kombucha (kom-BOO-cha). SCOBY is an acronym for Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast. And in…

Assortment: scones and jammed biscuits, blueberry smoothie, baskets of blueberries, tart and muffin

Dare Day Baking Contest: Featuring Biscuits and Blueberries

Do you have an old family recipe for scratch-made biscuits? How about a mouth-watering recipe full of fresh blueberries? Whether it's jam, muffins, cake, or cookies, bring them on because we’re…

Assorted pumpkins and squash arranged closely together on grass

It's Pumpkin Palooza! CANCELLED

It's fall, y'all! And that means it's pumpkin season! We're all set to prepare both sweet and savory dishes using our favorite gourd. We'll be whipping up some pumpkin butter and stirring up pumpkin…