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2008 Practical Skills Workshops Series
Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter
registration form on back please join us and learn about sustainability

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Maple Sugaring with Drumlin Farms Matt Celona
Lincoln, Mass 10AM- 11:30AM, Sunday March 2
Learn the basics of how to tap trees, collect sap, and turn that watery
tree juice into pancake topping fit for a king

Shamanic Plant Journeying with Tommy Priester at Bear Medicine Herbals
Watertown, Mass 6:30PM- 10PM, Thursday, March 13
The Earth Mothers Sacred Plant World provides everything we will ever need
for our health, nutrition, and general well being Experience how physical
and spiritual energies of plants affect all levels of being Participants
meet the physical plant, experience the tincture and open to the energies
of the flower essence Through guided meditation we make contact with plant
wisdom for our own personal healing, the healing of our families, and of
the Earth

Cheesemaking 1-soft cheese with Cliff Hatch at Upinngil Farm,
Gill, Mass 8AM- 5PM, Saturday, March 15
Learn how to take raw milk and create a soft cheese In this hands-on
workshop, we will make several
cheeses using different recipes and
cultures You are invited to bring 2 gallons of your own animals milk to
make more cheeses

Biodiesel : Bigger and Better with GreenGreaseMonkey
wwwGreenGreaseMonkeycom
Allston, Mass 10AM- 3PM, Sunday, April 6
Learn how to make biodiesel See a home processor run, learn its
applications, safety, the chemistry, and practice the steps in testing oil
and making your own fuel A parts list will be available to anyone who
wants to build their own processor

Organic Apples: Focusing Tree Energy with John Bemis at Hutchins Farm
CANCELED/POSTPONED
Concord, Mass 9AM- 1PM, Monday, April 21
John Bemis, with 30 years of apple tree management experience, will show us
how to guide the trees growth and help produce fruit We will walk the
orchard and learn about girdling and pruning to control excessive growth

Organic Gardening across the state of Massachusetts with NOFA Staff and
Board members and members,
At various locations: Barre, Middleboro, Wendell, and Natick the
morning of Saturday, April 26
Learn how gardening begins with building the soil and composting and all
about seeds and seedlings, mulches, raised beds and how you can grow some
of what
you eat and start to appreciate where all of your food comes from

Waste Veggie Oil Car Conversion with the environmentally friendly group
GreenGreaseMonkey
Allston, Mass 9:30AM- 5PM, Sunday, May 18
You too can really run a diesel car, truck, tractor off the used grease
from your local fried food place Come learn how

Cheesemaking 2-hard cheeses with Cliff Hatch at Upinngil Farm, Gill, Mass
8AM- 5PM, Sunday, May 11
Learn how to take raw milk and create a hard cheddar cheese In this
hands-on workshop, we will make several cheeses using different recipes and
cultures You are invited to bring 2 gallons of your own animals milk to
make more cheeses Cliff Hatch has been making a variety of cheeses for
more than 20 years

Building a Composting Toilets with expert and author Carol Steinfeld at
Caretaker Farm
Williamstown, Mass 10AM- 5PM, Sunday, May 4
We need to treat water better, right? Learn how to build a composting
toilet system for field, cottage, home and boat as we build a working
composting toilet for Bridget Spann and Don Zasada up at beautiful
Caretaker Farm Well also touch on graywater systems, urine-diverting
toilets, and ecological wastewater systems Carol Steinfeld
is the author
of The Composting Toilet System Book, Liquid Gold: The Lore Logic of
Using Urine to Grow Plants and the forthcoming Reusing the Resource:
Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling She directs Ecowaters
Projects and runs Ecovita, which supplies urine-diverting eco-toilets
These can be seen at the Cape Cod Center for Sustainable Living in Cotuit,
Mass

Make your own Tofu and Tempeh at the 21st Century Foods with Rudy Canale
Jamaica Plain, Mass 10AM-12:30PM , Saturday, May 24
Learn how to make your own soy and grain products? Come learn how you can
with one of Bostons most innovative small businesses Trade groups visit
from all over the world to see how to start up small-scale operations of
tofu and tempeh

Raising Chickens on Grass for Eggs and Meat: at Pete and Jens Backyard
Birds at Verrill Farm
Concord, Mass 1PM- 5PM, Sunday, May 25
Learn about raising broilers from chick to market - brooding, mobile coop
construction, electric fencing, feed rations and supplements, veterinary
care, marketing, and humane slaughter Pete Lowy and Jennifer Hashley
have also been working with NESFI and state regulators to implement a
Mobile Poultry Processing Unit which
will be available to view

Framing Carpentry: Creating a Structure with Will Beemer at the Heartwood
School,
Washington, Mass 9AM-5 PM, Saturday, June 14th
Learn about joists, sills, studs, rafters and the tools to frame interior
and exterior walls, floors and roofs Layout for openings such as windows
and doors will also be covered as we work on a stick-framed building
project under construction

Sustainable Living Tour: with Sharon Gensler, Jonathan Von Ranson, and Ron
Coler and friends
Wendell and Ashfield, Mass 10AM-3 PM, Sunday, June 15th
Creating Sustainable Systems :Learn how folks have chosen to live in ways
that are closer to the rhythms of the natural world Efficient wood heat,
photo-voltaics, satellite internet, growing your own food, composting
toilets, and so on Information on resources will be made available Its
a great day to say no to petroleum even just a little no

Hot Water with the Sun at the 21st Century Foods with Rudy Canale
Jamaica Plain, Mass 10AM-12:30PM , Saturday, June 21
Learn how to pre-heat your hot water using copper or plastic solar heaters
Save money, save polar bears, save the planet

Foraging for Wild Edibles with expert forager and
author Russ Cohen
Belchertown, Mass 1 PM-4PM, Sunday, July 13
Join expert forager Russ Cohen as we discover more than 2 dozen of the 150
species of Massachusetts edible wild plants

Yoga for Farmers and Gardeners with Marie Marchand at Green River Yoga,
Greenfield, Mass 5PM-7 PM, Sunday, August 24
Learn how to move so farming and gardening doesnt hurt so much Practice
breathing, and relaxing stretches that can make your active life less
painful and more complete Make friends with your body Apprentices
encouraged to attend-scholarships

Creating School Gardens and Composting Systems with Karen DiFranza
Hubbardston, Mass 10AM-2 PM, Sunday, September 28
The Hubbardston Center Schools garden program was developed using grant
money, and is student- maintained Learn how a student-powered composting
program that recycles cafeteria leftovers and schoolyard organic materials
works Learn how to start, run, fund and also curriculum lessons that use
both the garden and the school composting system
Putting Food By with Many Hands Organic Farms Jack Kittredge and Julie
Rawson
Barre, Mass 9AM-4PM Saturday, September 27
See their root cellar and learn to can, freeze, ferment, dry
and lacto-
ferment, jam, and wine various fruits and vegetables They will also
discuss pork and chicken products and share their experience with season
extension with hoop houses

Living in the Balance at Seeds of Solidarity with Ricky Baruc and Deb Habib

Orange, Mass 9AM-3 PM, Saturday, October 25
How do we farm, raise families, engage in our communities and stay
present when society says stay busy? The day will include a discussion of
community building and dialogue among workshop participants will focus on
creating balance, community and contentment within full lives and good
work Some techniques for finding balance, including yoga, and walking and
sitting meditation will be incorporated

FEEL FREE TO PAY MORE/MAKE A DONATION SO THAT OTHERS CAN ALSO ATTEND THESE
WORKSHOPS
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Information: Call Tom at 781-894-4358 or email seedpotato@yahoocom with
questions Make checks to: NOFA/Mass
Send registration to: Tom Szekely, PO Box 611, Lincoln, MA 01773
Please
save paper and include an email address
Pre-registration is required as space for some workshops is limited Add
5 for registrations within one week of event

Prices are for any NOFA members Non-members please add the additional
for each workshop or become a member

|Shamanic Plant Journeying25|WVO |Solar Hot |
|6_____ |Conversion|Water27 |
|Cheesemaking1|50 6 _____ |5_____ |
|64 6____ |Cheesemaking2|Foraging for Wild |
|Biodiesel|64 6_____ |Edible16 5_____ |
|46 6_____ |Composting Toilets |Yoga for Farmers and |
|Organic |48 |Gardeners144____ |
|Apples3|6_____ |School Gardening/Composting|
|7 5
cncld |Tofu and |46 5___ |
|Organic |Tempeh27|Putting Food |
|Gardening10 |5_____ |By50 |
|2_____ |Raising |6_____ |
|Circle location: |Chickens30|Living in |
|Barre, Wendell, Middleboro, |6____ |Balance44 |
|Natick |Framing Carpentry |6_____ |
| |67 |___________________________|
| |6____ |__________ |
| |Sustainability| |
| |15 4____ | |

I will join/renew NOFA/Mass: Family 40; Individual30; Low Income
20 ________
I would like to make a donation for the scholarship fund to help support
others learning: ________

Total Enclosed _________ please add phone and Email contact in
case we need to contact you -Thanks

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