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The Morris Farm, Backyard Farmer, Winter 2011
Date: February 5 Time: 9am - 11am Title: Planning Your Spring Garden, Companion Planting and Ordering Seeds Description: This is the year you are going to make the effort to plan your garden early and get your seeds ordered on time. Let us help you! Come hear a talk on how to get the most from what nature offers through companion planting and learn how and what seeds you will need to order. We’ll have Fedco catalogs on hand and will help participants complete their seed orders. Coffee, tea and muffins will be provided. Cost: $20 non-Morris Farm members, $15 Morris Farm members Date: February 12 Time: 10am - 12pm Title: Guided Farm Tour and Snowshoe Walk Description: Make the Morris Farm your own this winter by coming on a free guided tour. The barn in winter is a wonderful place! The cows and heifers are in and calves are on the way. You’ll get a tour of the barn, chicken house, out through the pastures to the trails, on to the yurt and then back again. You'll meet the animals, learn how to pass electric fences and find the trail to the yurt. Hot cocoa and coffee will be provided. Cost: Free Register Here Registration not required, but appreciated Date: March 8 CANCELLED Time: 6pm -- 9pm Title: Brewer's Workshop Description: We had so much fun last fall we have to do it again -- Home-brewer's unite! All levels of brewer from beginner to expert are invited to brew a batch of beer, share tips, experiences and a bottle of your own home brew that you bring from home. Cost: $20 non-Morris Farm members, $15 Morris Farm members Register Here Date: Rescheduled to June 4th and 5th Time: 9am – 3pm, both days
Title: Introduction to Cheese Making Description: A hands-on workshop with Appleton Creamery, in basic home cheese making. In this two-day workshop you'll be using simple equipment you may already have at home to make a jack cheese the first day, press overnight, then finish the second. In addition, we will also make feta, yogurt, a lactic cheese, quick mozarella, ricotta (a whey cheese) and butter, depending on the interests of the class. This workshop will concentrate on basic cow cheeses using Morris Farm cow and goat milk. Basic use of ripening cultures and rennet and milk chemistry will be covered. Resource list and basic recipes supplied. You will go home with cheese that you've made! Cost: $120 Register Here Date: Rescheduled to April 26th Time: 6pm – 8pm Title: Making Soap with Mandy Nolan Description: Learn the basics of making soap at home with artist and master soap maker Mandy Nolan. The class will make a block of soap together, learn about making lip balms and shampoos and have a chance to ask Mandy questions like what inspired her soap called Hippie Stink Vegan or, more simply, where does she buy her organic essential oils and extracts. Cost: $25 non-Morris Farm members, $15 Morris Farm members Register Here Date: April 9 Time: 9am - 11am Title: Introduction to Composting Description: An amazing opportunity to take a class with Mark Hutchinson, founder of the Maine Compost School, on the basics of composting. Learn to start your own composting solution to food waste at home and how to turn your waste into fertilizer for your gardens from one of the top people in the field. Cost: $20 non-Morris Farm members, $15 Morris Farm members Register Here Date: April 5 Time: 6pm - 8pm Title: Vegetable Gardening with the Morris Farm Master Gardeners Description: The Morris Farm Master Gardeners will talk about the garden they have established at the Morris Farm. The garden includes both raised beds and non-raised beds. In 2010 the group grew 1,356 pounds of food for Plant-a-Row using succession planting. In addition to a presentation, the Master Gardeners will bring their collective experience and reference materials from their University of Maine Cooperative Extension classes to a question/answer session. Workshop attendees can ask questions and all can share tips and the fun they have with gardening. Cost: $20 non-Morris Farm members, $15 Morris Farm members Register Here Look out for these upcoming spring and summer classes at the Morris Farm: Backyard poultry: meat birds and laying hens, Square Foot Gardening, Potatoes in a Box, Plots in Pots, Growing an Herb Spiral, Medicinal Herbs and more! |