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 [...]
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 a slew of recipes, resources, and MOOre! The FAMILY COW workshops run from 10:00 to 1:00 and include a pot-luck lunch. [...]
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)
Still your mind in me, Still yourself in me, And without doubt you shall be united With me, Mother of Love, dwelling in your heart. =the Bhagavad Gita This is one of the passages used in our Meditation for Mothers. More information here.
Recall the honeybee’s source in Spirit Be calm in their mystery Provide their natural circumstances as best you can Allow their natural tendencies to emerge Refrain from manipulating them Keep selfish ends in check They are connected to all things. Recall your fellow humans’ source in Spirit Be calm in their mystery Provide their natural [...]
When the people live their lives As if life were a song, Then singing out of life Provides the music for the stars To go dancing circles In the night. Looking forward to our next Dance on April 3 andRound Sing on the 17! Debra learned this Russian round from Henry Chapin at F&W summer [...]
Of what avail this restless, hurrying activity? This heavy weight of earthly cares? God’s purposes stand firm, And you, her little one, Need one thing alone: Trust in her power, and will, to meet your need. Your burden rests safe on her, And you, her little one, May play securely at her side. This is [...]
