Spend the day with Dr. Christine Jones, Australian soil carbon scientist, for a presentation and field walk. Topics will cover how to build soil carbon to improve: production and farm viability plant and livestock health and disease resistance human nutrition Climatic resilience on your farm or garden plot Dr. Christine Jones is an internationally-acclaimed […]
Community Events
Events
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Provides strategies and techniques for preserving and storing food. Topics include: kitchen safety, rules for food safety, canning basics, dehydration, cold storage and freezing, food selection, choosing and maintaining equipment, and awareness of local food resources. Click here for more information. Class meets Tuesdays, 1-3:50 |
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Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System. To register, click here. |
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An introduction to the current state of the global food system and its implications for people, the environment, and our future. Topics include the benefits and drawbacks of the industrial agricultural model; food justice, food security and public health; the real-life challenges to creating a local food system; and innovative responses to meet those challenges. […] |
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Permaculture FEAST for ecological & social transformation - a certificate course in permaculture design with Lisa DePiano, Jonathan Bates, Javiera Benavente, and friends. Be a part of a global movement to regenerate our communities and create the world we want to live in. Permaculture is a vision, design system, and global movement that draws on […]
$1 – $1250
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Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System. To register, click here. |
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Offers students hands-on permaculture skills for productive landscapes. Students gain applied skills through direct observation of and interaction with permaculture systems, including an edible forest garden, stormwater irrigation system, greenhouse, constructed pond, earth-bermed root cellar and living roof. Meets Fridays 1-4p 9/12-10/3. Click here for more information. |
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Come to Chilifest! for a full weekend celebrating all things spicy! Come on down to the farm for a chili cook-off and hot sauce competition, spicy food and local beer, great live music and local art! Get a chili pepper tattoo or try your luck at the chili pepper eating contest. Check out the full […]
$4 – $12
A two-day workshop with the Radical Mycology Collective. This intensive will give you the skills to cultivate edible and medicinal mushrooms for home use or as a small commercial fungi farmer. You will learn the detailed step by step process of how to cultivate mushrooms, from finding one through growing mycelium to fruiting mushrooms. We will […]
$13 – $175
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Warm Colors Apiary will once again hold its annual "Honey Festival". Warm Colors has been hosting the Honey Festival for more than twelve years. The festival is a celebration of the Honeybee and our native pollinators. It is an opportunity to recognize the many contributions beekeepers, and their bees, make to agriculture and the health […]
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Sutter Meats is hosting a two hour Saturday afternoon Pork Fabrication class and will be an interactive demonstration with owner/butcher, Terry. He will break one side of a locally sourced pig, field all of your questions, identify and discuss the attributes of each cut of meat and give pointers on how to best prepare them. […]
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Join artist Victoria Chapman for a reception to celebrate her series of watercolor paintings dedicated to pollinators. Her exhibit will include a bit of information next to each piece in order to educate viewers about that specific creature and how they can help that creature survive and thrive. The show is being put on through […] |
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This free outdoor festival showcases farmers, local restaurants, food trucks, specialty food producers, fisher folks, and organizations focusing on healthy food and fitness from New England. The festival also features lively chef & DIY demos, a seafood throwdown competition, diverse music and performances, family fun zone and more. :: Festival goers learn about the benefits […]
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Old Friends Farm will be hosting a celebration of food and friendship by highlighting the vibrancy of the land we'll be dining on. Chef Pengyew Chin has created a ginger-inspired menu that complements the bountiful harvests of our fields. With Old Friends Farm's signature salads and edible flowers, heirloom tomatoes, and many other vegetables at […] |
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Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System. To register, click here. |
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North Country Sustainability Center and Hames & Axle Farm are offering a Beginning Dairy Goat Keeping workshop. Topics will include housing, fencing, selection, feed, veterinary care, breeding selection and milk handling. Teacher is Pat Stewart, owner/farmer at Hames & Axle Farm and author of Personal Milkers: A Guide to Nigerian Dwarf Goat Keeping. More information […]
$50 – $60
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The 11th Annual Bread Festival in Northampton, MA takes this sticky moment in dietary history to celebrate the much-maligned gluten: that which binds together civilization itself! At Hungry Ghost Bread we will have food vendors, live music, a puppet parade through town, wheat planting and, of course, plenty of delicious bread. Our message is simple: Grain […]
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Join us at the farm the last Sunday of summer for a multi-course tasting menu served in the field. Drawing inspiration from the week’s harvest at the Greenfield Community Farm, the vegetarian meal will highlight the local bounty as summer gives way to fall. Guests can expect the farm-driven menu to feature sweet and hot […] |
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You are cordially invited to The Gill Tavern's Farm Dinner, this time featuring the bounty of Wingate Farm from just up the road in Hinsdale, NH. There, on land that has been in the family for four generations, farmers Olivia and Susie run a diversified livestock and vegetable farm, raising chickens for meat and eggs, […]
$32
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Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System. To register, click here. |
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Natural builder Mike DeSorgher of Yeoman Design Build will lead a 2-day hands on workshop constructing a natural, beautiful & affordable structure. Bring bag lunches, Sunday 4pm dinner provided. For more information or to register, visit the event website, or contact Nancy.
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Have you ever still been hungry after eating a big, homegrown salad and wished that you grew something more…substantial? Grains and beans can be grown and harvested at any scale to add diversity to your dinner table, CSA share, farm stand, and crop rotation. Come to Alprilla Farm to learn how we grow and process […]
$25 – $31
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Join for a day of pudding in Hawley! This celebration of community, food, and music pays tribute to one of the first events in tiny Hawley’s history—and is a fundraiser for the Sons & Daughters of Hawley, the town’s historical society. The day includes a tour of Sidehill Farm, musical entertainment, a pudding contest, lunch, […]
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Come and swap perennials, annuals, edibles, seeds, produce, garden tools and any other garden related items. All are welcome! Questions? Contact Jessica Gifford. |
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Join us this fall for our continuing Wednesday webinar series focused on state and federal policies that could improve our region’s food system. The webinars explore in greater detail the policies and policy options described in our report, New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System. To register, click here. |
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Join Gardening The Community this Saturday, Oct. 4th for their Volunteer Impact Day Vol.II Work towards making a difference in our community through beautifying it with one garden at a time. Join GTC in cleaning up our new Walnut St. garden, putting in a new fence, laying out tarps, and spreading wood chips! Lunch will […] |
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Bring your family out to celebrate the harvest and Valley Malt's anniversary! Malt House Tours 10am—Noon Valley Malt, 27 Middle St Music, Food & Beer Noon—6pm Young Men's Club, 183 East St Admission is $10 for adults and kids are free. All the ingredients necessary for a good time Live Music: featuring Acoustic Brew and Fat Bradley Wood-fired pizza by […]
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Come on out to Mike’s Maze to support CISA! This year the maze explores the game of life and the future of local agriculture, and you’ll also find games, a petting zoo, a mini-maze for kids, and tasty meals at the Corn Café. This event has been moved to its rain date of Sunday, October […] |