A place of passion and education.
The She Shed Meeting Room was born when founder Tamara Yapp set out to create what was missing from her own life: a place where she could receive accurate, cutting edge, health conscious advice in a friendly, approachable setting. Since then, the She Shed Meeting Room has grown into a community of women who are actively seeking the best, newest education on how to keep their families holistically happy, healthy, and informed.
The She Shed Meeting Room is a sanctuary for like-minded women to connect over conscious living, learn directly from experts, and explore practical solutions to health concerns that fit into their busy lives. Our first-of-its-kind Speaker Series events provide education for everyday evolving with your best interest at heart.
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Tamara Yapp’s mission is simple: to reconnect you with the ability to make the best choices for yourself and your family. Her proven philosophy is that knowledge IS self care, and the quickest path to health and happiness is to open yourself to new information and opportunities.
Tamara's keen knack for marketing, design, and creative problem solving has led her through a lifetime of successful business ventures. In 2000 she veered from the straightforward path of real estate and immersed herself in the rigorous world of nutrition and health research on a quest to understand her son’s illness. What followed was a flurry of prosperous health food companies specializing in gluten free, dairy free, and fermented food products. Because wellness is equal parts what we put in our bodies as well as what we do with them, she designs and produces an array of community events and health lectures through husband Jeff Yapp’s marketing and consulting company WutzNxt Inc. With her special brand of intent and ingenuity, even Covid couldn't stop her and WutzNxt Inc. from delivering some much needed holiday magic.
Since 2018, her one-of-a-kind wellness conferences at the She Shed Meeting Room in Tualatin, Oregon have brought together the best elements of holistic retreats and cutting-edge symposiums. The lectures at the She Shed Meeting Room have flourished into a multi-facetted hands-on event series where she connects passionate experts at the forefront of their fields with anyone willing to learn. Her goal is to provide invaluable information in an intimate, inviting setting because she’s learned the hard way that the right choice is impossible without the right information.
Tamara is “making” a living in the truest sense of the words: constantly growing and evolving in an active, ongoing process. There are no days off or missed opportunities when it comes to seeking out and sharing information with her community. “What I know, I’m going to pass along. It's that simple.”
From childhood summers picking strawberries at local Oregon farms, to churning butter and cutting up vegetables with her grandmother, Jessica Hanson knows well that good food comes from getting her hands dirty in the earth and in the kitchen.
Armed with business degree from PSU, Jessica went to work in both banking and the pharmaceutical industry - but her passion for making and sharing great food never faltered. After spending all her free time and lunch breaks perusing the local gourmet shop Pastaworks, and devouring the cookbook section of Powell’s, she listened to intuition, left her career and enrolled in culinary school.
Jessica graduated the top student in her class at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland, OR. Between running her own in-demand catering business, Jessica concurrently helped develop the Sur la Table culinary program where she found her love of sharing her knowledge with others. She has spent the last eight years partnering with Wolf & SubZero appliances in a kitchen-classroom environment helping others become comfortable and gain confidence in their own kitchens.
Increasingly disheartened by the conventional food system, Jessica started seeking out alternative sources for her own family’s food; from humanly raised meats to fresh, local dairy. She became her own personal cheese-monger and traveled to other artisan creameries to gain exposure to the craft. In 2011, she and her husband Jason bought a 17 acre farm in the Willamette Valley. She started her small herd of dairy goats from two “bottle babies” named Brie & Benji. Then came the chickens, the llama George, and twin baby girls. Who knows what’s next!
The Kitchen at Middleground Farms is a recreational cooking school located on a family hobby farm 20 minutes south of Portland, in Wilsonville, Oregon. Our cooking classes explore fundamental skills in the kitchen and garden, as well as the lost arts of handcrafting and preserving. From honing your knife skills, to learning how to enhance your meals with seasonal sauces, we will guide you through the science behind food and why it behaves the way it does in different situations, making you more confident cooking in your own kitchen!
