For information about ordering Bantam Bakery bread please click HERE In 2006 Motherhouse Board member Jessica Marshall organized a service called Motherhouse Delivers. One could order foods from a list of local producers and have them delivered to one’s door every Friday afternoon. Included in the pick-up were breads from Bantam Bakery, meat from Whippoorwill [...]
Tie it all together at our FREE Columbus Day Wreath Making Workshop for the whole family. On October 12, we will meet from 1:30-3:00 at the Local Farm barn to braid used baling twine into beautiful wreaths. Bring ribbons and dried flowers if you’d like. We’ll supply the twine, hangers, tools, and strawflowers. For more [...]
Organized by Darwin and her mother Rachel, our Big Little Kids Dances are especially for the younger crowd and their adults. Held at the Cornwall Town Hall (24 Pine Street) from 4:00 until 5:00. To be followed by a finger-food pot-luck. $10/family donations to cover costs will be greatly appreciated! Please contact Rachel for more [...]
Remember the summer sunlight shining through the magical green forest of Ben Benjamin’s cornfield? It’s all turned to gold… stored in hard kernals of corn — ready for grinding to make into cornbread OR to feed to Tom Levine’s pigs! Bring your whole family, memories, photographs and a dish to share for a pot-luck lunch [...]
Calling all callers, musicians, dancers and cooks to join us in a reel homegrown evening of organic entertainment. Pot-luck dinner at 5:30. Music-making and dancing starting at 7 at the Cornwall, CT Town Hall. Call Debra or Margaret for more info (860) 672-0229. (home)
Join us in celebrating the longest day of the year at Local Farm in Cornwall, CT. Bring instruments, singing voices, and a dish to share for a potluck supper and campfire sing-a-long. Starting at 7:00. Contact Debra@Motherhouse.us or (860) 672-0229 for more info. For Richard Griggs' photos from our 2012 celebration visit our blog
Learn to create your own soap with bubbly personalities Sharon, Alicia, and Debra. Sharon Laughlin will demonstrate using coconut oil and lye to make a cold-processed soap. She brings wisdom gleaned from running her own soap making business, "Made for You" soaps. North Star Botanicals herbalist, Alica North, will demonstrate adding plant matter to glycerine [...]
Come hone your skills to a razor edge with tools, tricks and sharper wits of local craftsmen. See different styles and set-ups for sharpening. Learn the best techniques for sharpening knives, garden tools, scissors, axes and scythes. Bring your blades for assessment, demonstration and practice. Go home with sharpened tools, a homemade strop and the [...]
Join Motherhouse in celebrating our 10th anniversary as a 501(c)(3) non-profit with a FAMILY PICNIC AT LOCAL FARM in Cornwall, CT. Bring pot-luck style picnic foods and your own place settings. We’ll provide cake and ingredients for hand-cranked ice-cream. Bring gently used/out-grown children’s clothing, cloth diapers, baby carriers and other parenting gear to swap with [...]
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, [...]
