Family Cow Forum
Mark your cowlendar and make sure there’s roominate for our FREE Family Cow Forum on Saturday, February 27. Share stories, tails, ruminations, favorite resources, farm moos, and moore with fellow family cow keepers:
…Home Cow Health Care with Dr. Angela Greco.
…Training Oxen and Their Trainer by Chuck Duncan.
…Designing and Building Your Dream Barn by Brigitte Ruthman.
…Panel Discussion of Family Cow Keepers.
…www.motherhousemarket.com will have stainless steel milkpails, non-electric yogurt makers, Debra’s favorite fencing supplies, milk filter disks, glass milk bottles, resource books, and udder handy items there for sale.
… 10:00 a.m. – 2:00p.m. at the UCC-Cornwall, CT Parish House. Please contact farmer@rlocalfarm.com or call (860) 672-0229 to let us know if you’ll be attending and/ or for moore information.
Daisy, Rex and Brigitte. Click REX for a great tear-jerker of a story.
OSLSS Pi(e) Equals What?
Celebrate the harvest season with a homegrown pie. Pluck a ripe squash, collect eggs, milk a cow, grind flour and render lard to make a delicious “pumpkin” pie from scratch.
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 Something Corny
Join us at the Cornwall Agricultural Fair, 10:00 – 4:00 on the Cornwall Village Green between Pine Street and Bolton Hill Road where we’ll be selling freshly grilled sweet corn for lunch. Fair Admission is Free!
OSLSS A Stitchin’ Time
Work together as a family to create your own placemats and napkins. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine, and other tailor-trade tricks. We’ll provide all materials unless you have a favorite fabric you’d prefer to use. Bring your own machine or use one of ours. See our blog report on last year’s apron Stitchin’ workshop.
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 A Time to Rest
Taking our cue from Mother Nature we will slow down and rest during this winter season so that we may greet the spring with renewed vigor.
New England old timers are sometimes called woodchucks. On this day we suggest following Woodchuck Wisdom. Instead of packing the family in a car to drive to an activity; stay home, snug in your burrow with your loved-ones. Encourage your children to share their favorite music, show, or game (even video games!) and REALLY listen, watch, participate and appreciate them. Fix a meal together and savor the preparation as well as the results. Eat by candlelight. Write letters together. Take a long salt and soda bath. Read a book. Sit by the window in a comfortable chair and watch the world outside. Consciously cherish yourself, your family, your life. Breathe…
Calendar of Events for 2010
January
2 Family Contra Dance
9 OSLSS Resting
15 New Moon Gathering
February
6 Family Contra Dance
13 OSLSS Still Resting
14 New Moon Gathering
27 Family Cow Forum
March
6 Family Contra Dance
13 OSLSS Beeginning with Bees
15 New Moon Gathering
April
3 Family Contra Dance
10 OSLSS A Stitchin’ Time
14 New Moon Gathering
May
1 Family Contra Dance
8 OSLSS Organic Gardening: Peas & Cues
14 New Moon Gathering
22 Keeping A Family Cow Workshop
June
5 Family Contra Dance
12 OSLSS Eggs-perience Chickens
12 New Moon Gathering
July
3 Family Contra Dance
10 OSLSS (What’s) In a Pickle?
11 New Moon Gathering
August
7 Family Contra Dance
10 New Moon Gathering
14 OSLSS Jam Session
21 OSLSS Can Session
28 OSLSS Yes, We Can Can
September
4 Family Contra Dance
8 New Moon Gathering
11 OSLSS Something Corny
25 Keeping A Family Cow Workshop
October
2 Family Contra Dance
7 New Moon Gathering
9 OSLSS What Equals Pi(e)?
November
6 Family Contra Dance
6 New Moon Gathering
13 OSLSS Serious Dough
December
4 Family Contra Dance
5 New Moon Gathering
11 OSLSS A Time to Rest
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.