Welcome to Motherhouse’ OSLSS workshops.
Build a lasagna from scratch! Starting with harvesting garden fresh herbs and tomatoes, we'll cook up a great tasting sauce. Starting with milking a cow, we'll make mozzarella and farmers cheese to add to our layers. Starting with collecting eggs and gathering stalks of wheat berries to grind into flour, we'll make our own noodles. [...]
Putting food by is an old expression for the many ways people prepared their harvest for storage before we had easy refrigeration. At this workshop we'll try our hands at a few tried-and-true methods of putting food by. We'll explore ways to encourage favorable microbes to help preserve food with pickling a la lacto-fermentation. We'll [...]
Compost is one of the easiest ways to increase tilth and better how your garden grows. Build a simple compost heap and a raised garden bed using a method called "Lasagne Gardening." Discuss green manure, vermiculture, and other ways to improve soil health. Go home with your own red wriggler worms to kick-start your compost [...]
Hurray hurray for the little brown bat! She gobbles up insects and never gets fat. Moths and mosquitoes face extermination When she swiftly detects them by echolocation. Encourage a bat colony... to hang out near your home in your own-made bat house for all organic pest control. The amazing flittermouse can eat from 600 to [...]
Learn and share ways of mending clothes, from darning socks to patching pants to replacing buttons. For those interested in machine mending, we'll have a few of our tried-and-true sewing machines available for use. Start collecting your holey clothes now for a wholly satisfying workshop from 10:30 until 1:30, Saturday, April 9, 2016. Share your [...]
Learn to use a sewing machine to create a handy apron for kitchen or barbecue OR a (more complicated) covered-dish carrier. Brightly colored dish-towels from Natural Habitat are the perfect size for either project. We'll provide the towels and designs so you can make your own as a delightful gift to yourself or your loved [...]
Sauerkraut, beet kvass, ginger carrots, kim-chee, traditional dill pickles, and other foods fermented with the help of lacto-bacillus are chock-full of health-supporting enzymes and probiotics. Learn how to make your own with Tal Hadani Pease as we hone our Old-Style Life-Skills of all-natural lacto-fermenting food preservation. 10:30-1:30, Saturday, Sept. 19 at Local Farm, 22 Popple [...]
From cow to cupboard, learn the basics of home cheese-making. After greeting the Local Farm cows, we'll discuss types of milk, rennet, heat, cultures and acid used in cheese-making, and then try our hand at making panier, mozzarella, fromage blanc, ricotta, and MOOre! Bring a cheesy dish to share for a pot-luck lunch. Go home [...]
Motherhouse's Old Style Life-Skills Series presents a workshop on raising rabbits. Meet at 10:30 to visit a local backyard rabbitry and then drive to Local Farm for more discussion, demonstrations, and a pot-luck lunch. Learn about breeding, raising, and harvesting your own meat rabbits. Talk with experienced backyard rabbit raisers. Hear about Margaret's experiment tanning [...]
Visit Rachel Gall, her backyard flock of sheep and Camp Isabella Freedman's herd of dairy goats. Learn about raising and keeping both. Witness a fine example of neighborly cooperation in small livestock management. ....All our Old Style Life Skills Series workshops run from 10:30 to 1:30 and include a pot-luck lunch. Read blog reports on [...]
