Welcome to Motherhouse’ OSLSS workshops.
Crafty area “SPIN-sters” will be on hand to demonstrate carding, spinning, knitting, weaving, crocheting, felting ... EWE name it ... with natural wool. RAMble by and try your hand at these soothing traditional arts. Go home with the fruits of your loom! View past Wool Gatherings on our blog. All our Old Style Life Skills [...]
Hand-craft holiday decorations and gifts to brighten up the shortest days of the year. A time to make festive seasonal items like pine-cone bird feeders, repurposed baling twine wreaths and whisks, tree ornaments, hand dipped candles, etc Write lifeskills@motherhouse.us or phone 860-672-0229 for details. All our Old Style Life Skills Series workshops take place in [...]
Grind wheat, mix and knead dough to form your own loaf of bread to bake at home. Learn the difference between sprouted grain breads, sourdough, and yeast breads. Sample them all and discuss the ingredients during a pot-luck lunch. Please bring a large mixing bowl, a sturdy spoon for mixing dough, a dish towel, a [...]
From egg or doe to table, learn about raising, keeping, caring for, and harvesting chickens and rabbits in your backyard. Learn to dress out a bird and/or rabbit to take home for another day’s dinner. Then see the next step up in chicken harvesting... using cones and an electric plucker! Raising rabbits is the first [...]
Preserve the sweet fruits of summer for year round enjoyment. Learn to make jam, jelly, preserves, and fruit butters with Brent Prindle and Tal Hadani. 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 [...]
Work as a group to prepare and can fresh produce and go home with a few jars so you can eat local all winter long. Saturday, August 20 at the Local Farm barn in Cornwall, CT; from 10:30 to 1:30 including a pot-luck lunch. To read blog reports on past Canning Workshops, click HERE. Because [...]
To rest is an essential Old Style Life -Skill. Take a cue from Mother Nature. Slow down and rest during the cold and dark of winter in order to greet the spring with renewed vigor. New England old timers are sometimes called woodchucks. With the colder days of winter they wisely stay close to home. [...]
Celebrate the harvest season with a homegrown pie. Pluck a ripe squash, collect eggs, milk a cow, grind flour and churn butter to make a delicious “pumpkin” pie from scratch. Watch a video of our 2010 PI workshop. All our Old Style Life Skills Series workshops take place in or near Cornwall, CT, run from [...]
Join us at the Cornwall Agricultural Fair, 10:00 – 4:00 on the Cornwall Village Green between Pine Street and Bolton Hill Road, grind corn, and get your picture taken at our corny photo booth! Fair Admission is Free! (home)
Rhonda Jaacks invites all potential wool gatherers to Harlequin Farm in Lime Rock, CT where she raises Finnsheep, a fabulous triple purpose sheep. Meet her sheep and guard ponies. Learn to card, spin, knit, and work with wool. Discuss raising sheep for fiber, meat, milk, cheese, yogurt, and as lawn mowing pets. Tour Rhonda's fences, [...]
