Abundant Montana

Sourdough Basics Class
2025-12-08 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-12-22 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Old Town Farm Stand, 275 Old Town Road, Three Forks, 59752, United States
Join Old Town Farm Stand in unlocking your culinary potential and discovering the joy of creating beautiful, healthy, and delicious sourdough bread.
Learn how to:

keep your sourdough starter growing and active
shape a loaf of bread
turn your home oven into a steam oven
expertly score your loaf to make beautiful crust
avoid the most common mistakes

The class includes supplies which you will take home to be able to bake more bread:

1 banneton
1 jar of starter
2 unbaked loaves
proofing container
scraper

23rd Annual Montana Organic Association Conference
2025-12-09 - 2025-12-11 | Mansfield Convention Center, 2 Park Dr S, Great Falls, MT, 59401, United States
The premier organic conference in Montana covering a variety of agricultural disciplines, interests, and organic viewpoints.
The MOA conference offers workshops, panel discussions, great food, entertainment, and informative, nationally recognized guest speakers. The MOA Annual Conference & Meeting is a time for members and vendors to renew friendships, listen to motivating and educational speakers, meet new customers, display organic wares, elect board officers, and attend to MOA business.

141st Annual MSGA Convention & Trade Show
2025-12-10 - 2025-12-12 | Northern Hotel, 19 N Broadway, Billings, MT, 59101, United States
On behalf of the Montana Stockgrowers Association (MSGA), we would like to thank you for your commitment to our associations! We hope you will join us at the 141st Annual MSGA Convention & Trade Show. The purpose of the Annual Convention & Trade Show is to provide education, information, fellowship, and an opportunity for the beef industry & MSGA members to set policy that will shape the landscape of cattle ranching in Montana. Download the Registration Brochure today.
Location: Northern Hotel & Double Tree Hotel

Bozeman Northside Holiday Stroll
2025-12-10 16:00 - 20:00 | Bozeman, Bozeman, MT
Join Bozeman’s Northside Neighborhood for the Northside Holiday Stroll!
Bozeman’s Northside Neighborhood is coming alive for the Holiday Stroll on Wednesday, December 10th from 4–8pm and everyone is invited!
Bundle up, bring your friends and family, and wander through our vibrant neighborhood for an evening full of festive fun:
– Scavenger Hunt
– Support Local Businesses
– Meet Your Neighbors
– Live Music, Food & Drinks
– All Are Welcome!
More than 30 local shops, studios, cafés, breweries, and community spaces will be open and celebrating. Grab a warm drink, explore handcrafted goods, catch live performances, and enjoy the creative energy that makes the Northside special.
Whether you’re here to shop, stroll, dine, or simply soak in the holiday magic, we can’t wait to see you there.
Come celebrate community, creativity, and the season!

Funding your Food Dreams
2025-12-11 17:30 - 18:30 | North Valley Food Bank, 251 Flathead Ave, Whitefish, MT, 59937, United States
With Ben Thiem, Director of Development & Partnerships, Food & Ag Development Center: Discover Montana Food & Ag Development Center and USDA resources that can help your business grow! Explore grants, financing options and tools to make your vision sustainable!

Ladies Who Ag – Belgrade Holiday Gathering
2025-12-11 17:30 - 20:00 | Heart to Heart Home Care, 161 W Madison Ave, Belgrade, MT, 59644, United States
Ladies Who Ag – Belgrade Holiday Gathering
Join MFU for:

Beef Tallow rendering for skincare with Valerie Gravage, owner of V Bar Montana. How to render beef tallow properly, and make your own unique tallow skincare to keep!
Flower arranging hands-on workshop with Kelli Duncan, owner of Perfect Harmony Floral, featuring locally sourced florals.
Updates & opportunities from Montana Farmers Union
Network and get involved with women in agriculture!

Registration required – closes Mon. Dec 8th
Open to all MFU members, friends, and the public.
$10 for MFU Members
$20 for Non-MFU Members
Dinner & drinks provided by MFU. Registration is required.
Questions? Click here to email Samantha Ferrat

Cowtown Cattlewomen Meeting
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Cellar Casino – Miles City, 719 Main St, Miles City, MT, 59301, United States
WOMEN IN AG: Looking to become more involved in the community?
Please join Cowtown Cattlewomen, on the 2nd Thursday of each month, at 6pm, at the Cellar Casino.
ALL AGES WELCOME!
The Cowtown Cattlewomen are a group of women that promote BEEF through education, community events, and legislation. They educate about the truth in agriculture, how beef is raised, and the nutritional benefits of beef.

Garden Club Meeting
2025-12-11 18:30 - 19:30 | First Baptist Church Miles City, 914 Palmer St, Miles City, MT, 59301, United States
Join the Miles City Garden Club for their monthly meeting, basement dining hall at the First Baptist Church.

Wreath Making Class #2
2025-12-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Rathvinden Farm, 10380 Springhill Rd, Belgrade, MT, 59714, United States
Enjoy light refreshments while you learn how to make your own holiday wreath at Rathvinden Farm. Workshops are led by farm staff, and classes are kept small. All materials are provided for you to design an original wreath to take home. Sign up with a friend or make a new one – we can’t wait to see what you create!

Flint Creek Valley Winter Gathering
2025-12-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Philipsburg Opera House, 140 S Sansome St, Philipsburg, MT, 59858, United States
Meet Five Valleys in Philipsburg to celebrate the season and their conservation successes in the Flint Creek Valley. They’ll host drinks and appetizers at the Philipsburg Opera House from 4pm-5:30pm. After, meet for the Yule Night parade down Main Street and catch a Twinkie from the Five Valleys float! Questions? Contact Lena at lena@fvlt.org.
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Kitchen Party with Chef Ash & DJ Dixon Moonstomper
2025-12-12 18:00 - 22:00 | Kirks’ Grocery, 2920 Minnesota Ave, Billings, MT, 59101, United States
Kitchen Party. KP. The monthly pay-what-you-can three course meal elaborately prepared with love by Chef Ashley Woodward, Chef Patience Melton, and the KP crew with the amazing spinning sounds of DJ Dixon Moonstomper. This is one of the best meals you will eat all month. 2nd Friday of every month.
This is a community event. No reservations. Stop by about 15-20 minutes before the 6 PM and 7:30 (ish) PM seatings.
You will not be disappointed!

Chance Farm Farmers Market
2025-12-13 09:00 - 12:00 | Chance Farm, 67 Rocky Rd, Bozeman, MT, 59718
With Bozeman Winter Market being closed next week, Chance Farm will be hosting a mini holiday Farmers’ Market in their packshed at 67 Rocky Road, Bozeman!

You will find all of their Chance Farm veggies alongside:

• pork, chicken & eggs by Black Dog Farm
• dry flower holiday wreaths by Kokoro Flowers
• honey, flour, grains & baking mixes by Highland Harmony Farm
• sourdough bread, english muffins & baked goodies by Spain Bridge Farm
• charcuterie, fine butchery & smoked meats by Grotto Meats
• raw goat kefir, tea & fire cider by Border Farm
• apple cider donuts & tea cakes by Daisy Donuts Montana
• beef by Ranchers of Shields Valley
• and seasonal holiday chocolates, sipping chocolates & chocolate bars by Front Porch Chocolate !!!

DIRECTIONS – They are located in the large white building with the blue roof on the back half of the property! The brown building up front is a landscaping company. Please turn onto Rocky Road and drive past the white building, then immediately take a left to park. The market is through the blue man-door next to the garage door! You can also park in the paved parking area in front of the white building and walk around to the door.

Know Your Cuts 101 & 102
2025-12-13 09:00 - 13:00 | Mission West Community Development Partners, 407 Main St SW, Ronan, MT, 59864, United States
Gather for lunch and hands on learning about how to break down a lamb carcass. Limited Space Workshop

Join Montana Farmers Union from 9am to 1pm for:

9:00 – Know your cuts 101 & 102.

This will be a live hands on experience with your local butcher while he breaks down a lamb carcass. You will also learn how to communicate your cut order for 1/4, 1/2 and whole lamb, pig and beef, as well as freezer space reaquirements, and networking with your local producers.

12:00 – Lunch & Flathead and Western Union Local Meeting.
Business and updates by Presidents of the Farmers Union Flathead Local & Western Union Local.
Updates from MWCDP & Montana Farmers Union!

Mission West Community Development Partners, 407 Main Street SW, Ronan MT 59864Open to members, friends, and the public.MFU Members – Free. Non-Members – $25

Amaltheia Holiday Edition Bulk Up Sale
2025-12-13 09:00 - 13:00 | Amaltheia Packshed, 20900 Frontage Rd Unit A-2, Belgrade, MT, 59714
Join Amaltheia for our final Bulk Stock Up Sale, Holiday Edition Saturday December 13th!
They will have amazing deals on their local and certified organic produce with most vegetables being $1.50/#!

20900 Frontage Rd unit A-2 Belgrade
9am-1pm
Organic potatoes, winter squash, carrots, beets, parsnips, red radish, daikon radish, watermelon radish, cabbage, onions, and turnips are all $1.50/#
They will also have garlic, shallots, and greenhouse greens!
Bring bags or containers to mix and match your produce as the produce will be in big bulk bins without plastic bags.
Cash, Credit Card, or Venmo accepted

Herbal Class & Tea Tasting
2025-12-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Border Farm, 28 Border Ln, Bozeman, MT, 59718, United States
Border Farm has a drying room filled with herbs/flowers that they collected during 2024/25.
In this class Border Farm will be covering your favorite herbs to grow for culinary and medicinal purposes, and also the herbs they treasure that are wild harvested.
They will be discussing

different parts of the plants that are usable
best season to harvest and why
how to prepare
uses – culinary, tinctures, salves, tisane, tonics, oil infusions, jellies, oxymel
wild foraging techniques.

The class will conclude by making tea blends from some of Border Farms favorite herbs they grow here on the farm. You will walk away with a lovely tea blend, more knowledge on how to combine herbs, different ways to use them, and an idea of how to start building your own herbal cabinet. They will have their personal library of resources available at the class to look through and take pictures of.
There will be additional tea blends, herb salts, spices, seeds available for purchase
NOTE – there are no refunds once reg/pay is received. Please check your schedule to make sure that these dates and times work for you. Thank you.

Sustainable Gift Making Bazaar Workshop
2025-12-13 11:00 - 15:30 | Home Resource Community Room, 1515 Wyoming Street, Missoula, MT, 59801, United States
The Holidays are upon us and there’s nothing better than a homemade gift. Check off the final presents on the list with MUD! They’ll be hosting a pop-up Sustainable Gift Making Workshop where you’ll learn to craft soap, create a foraged wreath, and heat press flowers onto greeting cards and gift boxes. Learn a new craft, be the jolly elf of the season, and keep the holidays sustainable with MUD!

Farm to Table Dinner - Greycliff Mill
2025-12-13 17:00, 2025-12-20 17:00 | Greycliff Mill, 11 Greycliff Creek Ln, Greycliff, MT, 59033
Greycliff Mill has partnered with farmers and ranchers near Big Timber and Greycliff, Montana in order to source produce and meats locally to provide a farm to table dinner.
Dinners starting at 5pm & 7pm

Ladles of Love for Teams- Making Soups Together for Donation
2025-12-14 17:30 - 21:00 | Cultivating Connections Montana, 175 Skalkaho Hwy, Hamilton, MT, 59840, United States
LADLES OF LOVE for TEAMS! Be in Service together. Celebrate connections by making soups to donate within your community.
Bring your group and join cultivating Connections in their commercial kitchens where you will create delicious and nutritious soups- full of Montana whole ingredients- for donation to area food banks. While cooking, you will also share a meal of soup together.
This is a great way for your service club, youth group, homeschool group, or group of friends to have fun and to make a positive contribution to the wellbeing of others in our community.
Cultivating Connections Montana will provide all the Montana grown and organic ingredients, the containers, recipes, labels indicating your group made the soup, kitchen equipment, and guidance. Your team provides the Love in Action!
Your team will craft approximately 3 or more quarts of fresh, healthy, delicious soups for the local food banks- a real and meaningful impact you can all be proud of together. Cultivating Connections is asking for a $250 donation per group to help them cover the costs of ingredients, packaging and labels, and kitchen expenses. Thank you!
(Please reach out if your group is interested but needs to have a different date in the kitchen and we will try to make it happen!)

Precision Ag Workshop- Emerging Technologies and On-Farm Experiences
2025-12-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Hill County 4-H Chuckwagon, 1676 US-2, Havre, MT, 59501, United States
Join MSU Precision Ag Lab for an engaging workshop exploring how precision agriculture technologies contribute to improved resource management, efficiency, and sustainability in Montana crop and livestock systems.

Broken Ground Holiday Potluck
2025-12-17 17:45 - 19:45 | Bozeman Public Library, 626 E Main St, Bozeman, MT, 59715
The Broken Ground Holiday Potluck is on Wednesday, December 17th at 5:45-7:45pm at the Bozeman Public Library.
Please bring a dish to share along with your own plate/cup/utensils.
RSVP to info@brokengroundpermaculture.com.

Ladies Who Ag- Townsend
2025-12-17 18:00 - 20:00 | The Lodge of Townsend, 131 S Spruce St, Townsend, MT, 59644, United States
Join Montana Farmer’s Union for: Vision Board Creation – for yourself, your farm/ranch, your garden or a combination! Updates & opportunities from MFU Network with women in agriculture Open to all MFU members, friends, and the public.

FREE for MFU Members $15 for Non-MFU Members Snacks & refreshments provided Registration required – closes Mon. Dec 14thQuestions?Email Samantha Ferrator text/call – 406.949.0869

Cultivate & Cook - Holiday Charcuterie Board
2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Missoula County Department of Ecology and Extension, 1075 South Avenue West, Missoula, MT, 59801, United States
Dried Fruit Charcuterie Board – make & take home to enjoy or gift! Course Fee: $15.
Get into the festive spirit with this creative and delicious workshop! Learn how to craft a stunning holiday charcuterie board featuring dried fruits, nuts, cheeses, and more, perfect for entertaining or gifting! You’ll also learn how to dry fruits at home, preserving their natural sweetness and flavor. From selecting the best fruits to proper drying techniques, you’ll gain skills to create your own pantry staples. At the end of the class, you’ll assemble and take home a beautiful, dried fruit charcuterie board, ready to impress your guests or share as a thoughtful holiday gift. Celebrate the season with creativity and flavor!

Sourdough Pizza Class
2025-12-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Old Town Farm Stand, 275 Old Town Road, Three Forks, 59752, United States
Join Old Town Farm Stand for their sourdough pizza class to develop your culinary skills and discover the joy of creating beautiful, healthy, and delicious sourdough pizza. In class you will make your own pizza from start to finish and take home the supplies needed to make more at home.
Learn how to:

Keep your sourdough starter growing and active
Make, shape, and ferment sourdough pizza dough
Stretch dough to make pizza crust
Use pre-made sauces and toppings to make mouth watering flavor combos
Avoid the most common mistakes

The class includes supplies which you will take home to be able to make more pizza:

1 jar of starter
1 uncooked pizza dough
proofing container
scraper

Farm Store Accelerator
2026-01-07 | Virtual
Finally launch your profitable farm store in 2026 – Even if you’re still figuring out permits, have zero marketing experience, and only $0–$15k in sales right now

Join Growing Farmers and Michael Kilpatrick for four weeks this January to go from overwhelmed & stuck to confident, consistent on-farm sales without guessing about zoning, POS, or how to get customers to actually show up.

Crop and Pest Management School 2026
2026-01-14 - 2026-01-15 | Strand Union Building, 751 W Grant St, Bozeman, MT, 59715
Crop and Pest Management School offered this January
Montana State University Extension and its Integrated Pest Management Program will host a Crop and Pest Management School Jan. 14-15, 2026, in the Strand Union Building Ballrooms on the MSU campus in Bozeman. The event will include updates on areas of new and proven agricultural techniques and emphasize sustainable management systems.
Participants will learn to recognize damage caused by pests and integrate management methods in decision-making. Certified crop adviser and pesticide continuing education units will be available. The agenda, session descriptions and speaker biographies are online at www.montana.edu/extension/ipm/croppestschool.html.
Registration is $225 and includes lunch and parking each day. The registration deadline is Monday, Dec. 22; more registration information is online at https://ecommerce.montana.edu/pspp_crops/. Questions may be directed to Integrated Pest Management Program Director Tim Seipel at timothy.seipel@montana.edu.
