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 […]
Register at Food Forest Farm Cost: $47 per person Are you growing a garden or farm and have soil questions? Wondering how to maximize the productivity and nutrient density of the fruits and vegetables you grow? Struggling with disease or pest problems in your landscape? Regenerating your soil, and raising it's health to it's highest […]
Learn to design and build rugged yet simple skiddable structures, with a focus on efficient and effective building. We’ll look at several evolutions and sizes of movable sheds on-site. Next, we’ll discuss design considerations including building materials, flexibility, bracing, designing for de-construction and re-use, and motive power available to drag the intended structure. Course participants […]
Come enjoy one last day at the farm pressing cider, eating homemade donuts and listening to some old-time music. We'll start the press at ten and you can pre-order seconds apples by the bushel from us.
Join Smiarowski Farm Stand for their first annual Potatofest, a celebration of regional agriculture and the long farming tradition in Sunderland. Guests will have a chance to taste the farm stand’s famous Polish cuisine, as well as a variety of soups, french and pumpkin fries, and regional hot dogs. The festival will also feature a visit […]
Believe it or not, fall is here, so let’s not forget that it is a great time to feed and prepare your garden beds for the nearing winter and the coming spring. Our compost is a great soil amendment that will benefit your plant and flower beds in many ways. If it’s grass you’re looking […]
Join us at Mineral Hills Winery for our 5th anniversary party. Again this year featuring the band 91 South (most of the musicians who have come to play at this event at the winery for the last fours years). We will have the Bistro Bus back to sell their great food. You will get a […]
Women & Food ~ Writing About Our Complicated Relationship with Sustenance, a workshop with writer Jane Roy Brown