Community Event

Join us for the the final Young Farmers Front Porch call of 2024. We will be honoring this virtual space by featuring Indigenous activist Lyla June. This event will be recorded.

About the guest speaker: Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo) and Tsetsehestahese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. 

From Biodynamic Agricultural College: 

Our Introduction to Biodynamic Viticulture course is ideal if you have a basic knowledge of viticulture and would like to develop a biodynamic approach. You might be planning a new vineyard, wanting to convert your present plot, or selling or marketing biodynamic wine. If so, this is the course for you!

Sessions are online with a series of seminars, an extensive resource library for additional personal study, and video interviews with experts from across the world of biodynamic viticulture.

From Adam Blanning, Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak and Albert Schmidli: 

We cordially invite you to our zoom online conference in January 2025!

This meeting will help all those who teach about anthroposophy, those who research and work with questions of growth and vitality, as well as anyone who would like to know more about how to engage more fully with the etheric world.

From Threefold Community Farm:

Ages 7-13: Come learn all about the farm and the garden and your part in taking care of the earth. Winter Farm Arts sessions will include weekly take-home projects inspired by seasonal life on farm.  

8-week Winter Session (We offer this class at three different times to accommodate different learning schedules)

Homesteading Arts (soapmaking, candle making, broom making and more!) Tuesdays 10-11:30am Dates: Jan 21, Feb 4, 11, 25, Mar 4, 11, 18, 25 

For ages 3-6: This class is designed for our littlest gardeners, and their caregiver, with a focus on the seasonal life cycle of the garden. Each week, songs, play, garden work, and seasonal garden art activities will be included.

8-week Winter Session: Wednesdays 1:30-3

Dates: Jan 22 Feb 5, 12, 26, Mar 5, 12, 19, 26

Winter Series Tuition: $320

Click here to register

January 9 - 11 the 9th annual Utah Farm and Food Conference, "Common Ground", will gather more than 300 farmers, ranchers, gardeners, biodynamic practitioners, permaculturists, educators, students, activists, chefs, seed geeks, foodies, and homesteaders from Utah and neighboring states. The conference will inspire learning, engaging, exploring, sharing, questioning, connecting, reflection, camaraderie, and reverence as a vibrant community gathers over three days.

The Spirit in Nature and the Nature of Spirit

saugeenrivercsa.com/school-for-sacred-agriculture/

An introductory 2 part weekend workshop in search of a Sacred Agriculture

Online OR in person with Cory Eichman. We'll explore through presentation, meditation, and discussion. 

A conersation between the spiritual and physical sides of nature. Questions around the dead; our ancestors work in plants and animals. The relationship between empirical science and spiritual science. The spiritual significance of carbon. 

Suggested donation: $50

From NOFA: 

Join us for…

An exploration of regional soil health and food sovereignty through regenerative and organic practices

A celebration of community resilience

And an opportunity for connection and skill building! Click here for more info. 

About NOFA/Mass: 

Fellowship of Preparation Makers Annual Gathering

January 30 - February 2, 2025

Viroqua, WI

Registration and other details to be posted as available.

No matter the size of your farm or where you’re coming from, you’re a part of the “big community” that is SOWTH. And when our community comes together to share our knowledge and resources, we unlock our collective power to make the bolder impact our region needs to inspire positive change.

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