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.
OSLSS Organic Gardening: Peas and Cues
Get dirty as you learn about creating raised beds, co-planting mutually beneficial plants, mulching and other organic gardening practices.
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 Sourdough Starter Course
Harness natural yeasts to create hearty, nutritious, delicious bread. Discuss how to feed and keep a starter and go home with your own. Bake and taste a loaf. Grind grain, mix dough, and cook pancakes. Sew a bread storage bag for fresher loaves.
OSLSS Keeping a Family Cow
Learn about finding, feeding, housing, fencing, breeding, and caring for your cow with Debra Tyler of Local Farm. Try your hand at milking. Make butter, soft cheese, ice cream, and yogurt. Go home with resource lists, your own copy of Joanne Grohman’s Keeping a Family Cow, a slew of recipes and MOOre!
The FAMILY COW workshops run from 10:00 to 1:00 and include a pot-luck lunch. Cost is $35/person or $50/family (up to 4 members). For more information and to register, call (860)672-0229 or send an email to farmer@rlocalfarm.com.
The 2012 workshops will be on Saturdays: June 16 and September 15. We will be happy to consider scheduling other dates if you contact us.
For photos and reports about past Family Cow Workshops, visit our blog. … …(home)
Make an Appalachian Egg Basket with Carol Hart
Instructor: Carol Hart, author of Natural Basketry
June 14, 2009 at Local Farm, Cornwall CT
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Fee: $75 per person
Sign up in advance with: Debra Tyler (860) 672-0229
Join us for a one-day workshop in which we will fashion an Appalachian Egg Basket, also known as a small Celtic hoop and rib basket.
Learn about the Celtic origins, and numerous variations, of this style of basket, now made in many places around the world. Our baskets will be small, due to our limited class time, but you will learn what you need to make a larger version suitable as a knitting or garden basket. We will use commercially available reed for our egg basket. Gathering and processing local wild and garden materials that can be used in this type of basket will also be discussed.
Tools: Bring pruning sheers, needle nosed pliers, small wire cutters, and awl if you have them as well as your lunch.