Family Round Sing
Join your voices in simple staggered melodies to create rich and beautiful harmonies. Usually held in the Local Farm barn or if weather is bad, the Hughes Memorial Library on Lower River Road in West Cornwall,CT. Starting at 7:30 pm.
For more information, please call Debra Tyler (860) 672-0229 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (860) 672-0229 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or write debra@motherhouse.us.
Friendship And Music
How great is the pleasure, how sweet the delight
When friendship and music together unite
How great is the pleasure, how sweet the delight
When friends in song together unite
Sweet, sweet, how sweet the delight
When harmony, sweet harmony and fellowship unite.
Make A Milking Stool with Joe Brien
Make A Milking Stool with Joe Brien at the Local Farm Barn in Cornwall, CT. A great activity for parent and child or couples to collaborate $50/stool. 10:00 – 4:00. Pre-register with Debra@Motherhouse.us or 860 672-0229.
OSLSS Scentsible Herbal Gifts
Using herb-steeped oils make salves, lotions, or soap. Grind and combine dried herbs for seasoning salt. Have a scent-sational time as you sew and pack sachet packets and make other holiday gifts.
OSLSS The Whey of Cheesemaking
Dr. Angela Greco will guide us through the mysteries of making cheese in the home kitchen. Learn about different kinds of milk, cultures, and rennet. Learn to use a cheese press and how to age cheese.
OSLSS Appley Ever After
Press cider. Make apple butter from the pumice. Start some apple cider vinegar and discuss its many uses. Learn to preserve this autumnal bounty with different drying techniques including making fruit leather.
OSLSS Yes, We Can Can
Wyatt Whiteman will demonstrate methods of putting-food-by (preserving food) in glass jars. Learn when to use pressure canning or a hot water bath. Work as a group to prepare fresh produce and go home with a few jars so you can eat local all winter long.
All our Old Style Life Skills Series workshops take place in or near Cornwall, CT, run from 10:30 to 1:30 and include a pot-luck lunch. For more information, click on OSLSS in the Pages menu box below.
OSLSS Jam Session
Preserve the sweet fruits of summer for year round enjoyment. Learn to make jam, jelly, preserves, and fruit butters. Take home the fruits of your labors.
All our Old Style Life Skills Series workshops take place in or near Cornwall, CT, run from 10:30 to 1:30 and include a pot-luck lunch. For more information, click on OSLSS in the Pages menu box below.
OSLSS Eggs-Perience Chickens
From egg to table, learn about raising, keeping, caring for, and killing chickens in your backyard. See a variety of poultry housing solutions. Dress out a bird to take home for another day’s dinner.
All our Old Style Life Skills Series workshops take place in or near Cornwall, CT, run from 10:30 to 1:30 and include a pot-luck lunch. Suggested donation:$35/family. For more information, click on OSLSS in the Pages menu box below.
To visit our blog for reports on past chicken workshops, click here.
OSLSS Wool Gathering
Area “spin-sters” will demonstrate carding, spinning, knitting, weaving, crocheting and felting with natural wool. Meet a sheep. Make your own knitting needles and try your hand at these soothing traditional arts.
OSLSS Bee-Ginning with Bees
Learn about life in the hive of our friend the honey bee: who’s who and what they do. Buzz over the tools of beekeeping. Fire-up a bee-soothing smoker. Use an empty bee package to role-play the steps of installing the real thing. At the Cornwall Town Hall-24 Pine St.
