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June 2-8 or 6-8, 2013 |
You really can grow most of the food your family needs.
With this 7 day intensive, we'll garden every day and you'll get the hands-on experience you need an gain the confidence to get started on your own. |
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- Begin each day in the garden at 5 AM and beat the heat.
- At 9 AM we'll break for showers and breakfast.
- Every afternoon we'll visit other gardeners,
including CSA's and the local Amish community.
- Plus we'll take time to relax in the swimming hole and hike in the creeks
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June is peak garden time. We'll be planting and tending:
- Tomatoes
- Eggplant
- Peppers
- Sweet Corn, Field Corn
- Sweet Potatoes
- White Potatoes
- Strawberries, Blackberries
- Raspberries, Blueberries
- Winter Squash
- Black beans, Pinto beans
- Field Peas
- and more
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I'll have suits so we can take turns going into the bee hives. |
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You'll also learn how to preserve food, including:
- Freezing food to maintain freshness and flavor
- Using the dehydrator
- Canning
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Dehydrating Zucchini |
More veggies in the garden:
- Onions, Garlic
- Watermelon
- Cantaloupe
- Okra
- Green Beans
- Summer Squash, Zucchini
- Carrots, Beets
- Swiss Chard
- Broccoli
- Parsnips
- Pumpkin
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Freezing Peas |
Only $400 for all 8 days
including all meals.
Don't have a week to give?
Come for just the weekend at my standard weekend rate, just $250 including camping and meals!
Please contact me to plan our week together! |
Square Foot Gardening |
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| Workshops and Activities |
Green Buildings and Homes Tour
Our 12th year! |
Life in Community
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Gardening and Growing Food
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Meditation & Yoga
The Spiritual Path |
Health and Diet
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Experience the Land April 12-14
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The Farm School Family Fest
May 12-13
Music, Tours, Hikes,
Games, More! |
Community & Sustainability Conference May 24-26 .. |
Organic Gardening Intensive
June 3-10 or 8-10 A week (or weekend) of hands-on gardening as well as garden tours on and 0ff-The Farm to visit Shiitake operations, a bamboo nursery and more...more |
| Summer Retreat July 25-29 or 27-29 (weekend only) Swimming, hiking, kid activities, workshops and GREAT FOOD! Fun for the entire family. Includes camp sites. Click here for a list of accommodations |
Midwifery Assistant Workshops
Visit our web site to see the 2011 calendar.
www.midwiferyworkshops.org/ |
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| To follow through on the descriptive word "intensive," at last year's event we had to cover a wide array of tasks and crops, techniques and hands-on experience. I think you'll see from the list below we did just that. I especially enjoyed visiting the many different permaculture homesteads in our area, each impressive in its own way. I'll never forget the tour of the Amish farm, with the barefoot matriarch leading us through vast rows of tomatoes, corn, cukes and more. Let me know if you would be interested in attending a fall session or one next spring. |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Planted blue corn
Planted winter squash
Planted sweet corn |
Started sweet corn in pots
Weeded & mulched strawberries
Mulched black beans
Mulched watermelon
Harvested white potatoes
Harvested onions
Created 75' wood chip path
Started blueberry wine
Permaculture
Homestead tour |
More Mulching
Inspected bee hives
Extracted 3.5 gallons of honey |
Morning garden session
Visited Amish vegetable auction
Toured Amish farm
Made biochar stove
Reviewed advanced stove design
Produced biochar
Started aerated compost tea |
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Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
Planted watermelon
Planted Okra
Made/installed tomato cages
Permaculture
Homestead tour
Applied aerated compost tea
Made compost pile
Permaculture
Homestead tour
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Morning garden session
Foliar feeding of plants
Picked raspberries
Planted summer squash
Japanese Beetle eradication
Permaculture
Homestead tour
Visit to Stillhouse Falls
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Morning garden session
Farm Gardens tour
Racked blueberry wine
Visited Farm swimming hole
Camp fire and drum cicle
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Brunch, meditation and good-byes |
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