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, [...]
Join local herbalist Alicia North for a pasture stroll at Local Farm. Learn to identify herbs and how they have been used through the generations to heal common ailments. Make a basic salve using plants we collect during the day. Feast on a pot-luck lunch embellished with more of our foragings. All our Old Style [...]
Mark your cowlendar and make sure there’s roominate for our FREE Family Cow Forum. Share stories, tails, ruminations, favorite resources, farm moos, and moore with fellow family cow keepers. 10:00-1:00, Saturday, February 25 at the Taghhannuck Grange Hall 7 Dunbar Road, Sharon, CT Official start time is 10:00. There will be breads, spreads, fruit, [...]
Reflecting on the week of simple living with no electricity after the snow storm of October 29, Catherine writes... All was quiet and still. We realize that we once lived a life of harmony with our surroundings and ever so cleverly it has been taken away and we were separated from our dear mother... earth. [...]
Round and ’round, Mother’s blessing goes ’round, ‘Round the world, around, around. ‘Round and ’round, Mother’s blessing goes ’round, ‘Round the world, around. Twisting strands of love and union Into Life, eternal blessed. Mother’s hand is on the spindle, Turning us to peace and rest. Debra, founder and president of Motherhouse, learned this song from [...]
Learn about life in the hive of our friend the honey bee: who’s who and what they do. Hear excerpts from a beekeeper's journal. Buzz over the tools and equipment used in beekeeping, top bar hives, and apitherapy paraphernalia. Fire-up a bee-soothing smoker. Use an empty bee package to role-play the steps of installing the [...]
Motherhouse and Bluestone Farm invite all women to join in a full day celebration of our connection to the earth through sacred agriculture. We'll share our personal farming stories, rituals, pea planting, pot-luck lunch, drumming circle and more. Bring a Pot-Luck dish to share, your own place setting, and any non-GMO seeds you’d like to [...]
By Wendy Carlson, Published: August 24, 2008 www.nytimes.com If you read Sunday's New York Times on August 24th, and got to the Connecticut/In The Region section, you would have seen the large photograph taken at a Motherhouse Family Cow workshop including the caption "With food and fuel costs rising, some families have opted to keep [...]
