Participants will learn to make simple soap from local farm ingredients.  For more information and to register, visit the Taproot Commons website.

This is the first in a four-part class series on learning to live with the land. Do you want to live more fully with your land? Starting a small farm or homestead? Our class series is offered on our diverse, working, animal-powered farmstead. Teaching from our experience and with our living farm as the learning space: come see, feel, […]

Danielle Dellaquila has a M.S. in Nutrition and a B.S. in Exercise Science.  Danielle is the owner of Eagle Vision Nutrition, where she uses her combined knowledge of nutrition and exercise to help her clients attain ultimate health. Danielle's latest passion is how diet influences intestinal health in terms of auto-immune disease, weight control, depression and […]

This workshop will cover the basics of wildcrafting including: seasonal & lunar cycles, ethics, tools & equipment, gratitude, and ecology. Each workshop includes a long walk & visit with common plants that grow abundantly in Western Massachusetts. We discuss in detail: plant identification, lore, medicinal actions, processing, nutritional profiles, botany and more! Students will become more confident and […]

Many easy-to-grow garden and wild plants can be used to improve your foundational health and natural defenses, and to deal with common illnesses. The Home Health Herbs garden plan is a selection of cultivated and wild medicinal plants that offer healing. We'll discuss the use of these plants, and you will receive a chart detailing how they can be used, and which you would […]

This is the second in a four-part class series on learning to live with the land. Do you want to live more fully with your land? Starting a small farm or homestead? Our class series is offered on our diverse, working, animal-powered farmstead. Teaching from our experience and with our living farm as the learning space: come see, feel, and […]

Our very own farm cook Dane Kuttler, also of the Julia Poppins School of Cooking, will be conducting a workshop on fun raw foods including: Protein-rich salads Gazpacho Lactofermenting Infused waters Samples provided, kids welcome.  Free and open to the public

This monthly plant swap is free and open to the public to encourage the exchange of plants and other garden related items.  You many bring as few or as many of the following items as you like: perennials, annuals, edibles, seeds, garden produce, tools or any other garden related items.  Please arrive on time, as […]

The Springfield Food Policy Council will host a series of free community gardening workshops for those interested in learning about urban agriculture and starting a community garden.  This workshop will focus on goal setting and vision development for community gardens.

Antibiotic drugs are becoming less effective as they are more overused and the microbes that they are meant to annihilate adapt beyond them. We will explore the benefits of plant medicine for fighting bacterial and viral illness (including Lyme) and for building our bodies' resistance. Great promise lies in these medicines which are used by […]

Join Heather Jo Flores, author and co founder of Food Not Lawns, at the The White Rose for a talk and booksigning! This event is geared toward empowering local communities not just to grow their own food, but also to share the surplus produce, seeds, plants and knowledge with their community. Heather Jo Flores is […]

The Food For All Garden produces organically grown vegetables herbs and flowers for local relief organizations. In partnership with the Amherst Survival Center and Not Bread Alone we provide accessibility to healthy food as well as opportunity to connect with nature and learn garden basics. This year, we are hosting VOLUNTEER WORKDAYS every other week on […]

Learn the ins and outs of having your own family milk cow. Home dairying is full of skilled work, but also an amazing economic boon for those who care deeply about where their dairy comes from. We’ll discuss buying considerations (age, breed, scale), milking, infrastructure/facilities/fencing, equipment, hand milking versus bucket milking, calving, processing milk, and all around animal […]

This is the third in a four-part class series on learning to live with the land. Do you want to live more fully with your land? Starting a small farm or homestead? Our class series is offered on our diverse, working, animal-powered farmstead. Teaching from our experience and with our living farm as the learning space: come see, feel, and […]

The Springfield Food Policy Council will host a series of free community gardening workshops for those interested in learning about urban agriculture and starting a community garden.  This session will focus on the steps involved in acquiring a soil test.

The Springfield Food Policy Council will host a series of free community gardening workshops for those interested in learning about urban agriculture and starting a community garden.  This session will focus on developing leadership for your community garden.

Join resilient landscape planner John Lepore of Future Lands Designs to: *Learn about designing and installing a rain garden *Be a part of planting the rain garden *Understand the benefits: clean rivers, replenished ground water, & pollinator habitat Workshops start every hour on the hour beginning at 9

Let's explore graywater alternatives and tour a graywater greenhouse.  Visit the Taproot Commons website for more info and to register.

This Sunday, July 26th, from 2-5 pm, the Bullitt Reservation will be hosting the second in its summer series of gardening workshops: Integrating Chickens and Gardens. While there are no resident chickens at Bullitt, workshop instructor Emmet van Driesch has been raising chickens at home for years, and has tried many of the strategies he will […]

Farm Manager Danny Botkin will be leading a narrated farm and garden walk at Laughing Dog Farm in Gill this Sunday afternoon. Laughing Dog Farm stewards a unique, five+ acre, "permaculture-inspired" homestead with mixed greenhouses, gardens, goats, orchard, interns and rabbits. They employ a radical sheet mulching motif, with minimal tillage, continuous coverage, low-tunnel season extension, and […]

The Food For All Garden produces organically grown vegetables herbs and flowers for local relief organizations. In partnership with the Amherst Survival Center and Not Bread Alone we provide accessibility to healthy food as well as opportunity to connect with nature and learn garden basics. This year, we are hosting VOLUNTEER WORKDAYS every other week on […]

The Springfield Food Policy Council will host a series of free community gardening workshops for those interested in learning about urban agriculture and starting a community garden.  This session will focus on working with transplanted plants in your garden.