Spring Skill Share: Beginners Knitting Night

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 7-9PM

Join Julia Moore of Fiberactive Organics as she lays down the foundations of knitting and obtaining local & sustainable materials! Our hopes are that this Spring Skill Share event will spawn a monthly fiber circle.

Bikes & Barnyards Summer Camp

A Summer Camp
with TRIANGLE BIKEWORKS •
June 13, 8 AM – June 17, 5 PM:

Days of exploring, laughing, and riding, learning camp & forest skills and stewardship, care & functioning of ecosystems and nature and, discovering cooking local! On the last we’ll camp out under the stars while preparing a meal over a fire! The hope is that you’ll never want to go a day without riding your bike again!

Backyard Chickens Are Happy Chickens

The sun is just kissing the horizon and there he goes. That bold rooster, letting the world know he is there! Cacadoooodledoooooo!!! A lovely reminder that today is a new […]

Can Aquaponics Help Fix Our Broken Food Chain?

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates Since the beginning of civilization, plants have provided us with medicine and food that support our health at the […]

Rabbitry Workshop: Raising Rabbits for Meat

A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with MARY DEMARE AND DAN SHIELDS •
OCT. 25, 2-3 PM:

Two does and a buck can provide enough meat for a family of 4-6. Rabbit meat is healthy, lean and very low impact. With the manure you can fertilize your garden and with the fur you can make warm stuff! During the Basic Rabbitry workshop, attendees will learn the “how” and “why” of raising rabbits for meat. How to choose breeding stock, sex rabbits, breeding, feeding…

Farm Aid Concert & Homegrown Skills Tent

North Carolina, here we come! Farm Aid 2014 is right around the corner—and you may have heard that a bunch of real pros are headlining. (You know, just some guys named Willie, Neil, John, Dave, and Jack, among others.) But over on the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent schedule, you’re the talent!

Rabbitry Workshop: Raising Rabbits for Meat

A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with MARY DEMARE AND DAN SHIELDS •
OCT. 25, 2-3 PM:

Two does and a buck can provide enough meat for a family of 4-6. Rabbit meat is healthy, lean and very low impact. With the manure you can fertilize your garden and with the fur you can make warm stuff! During the Basic Rabbitry workshop, attendees will learn the “how” and “why” of raising rabbits for meat. How to choose breeding stock, sex rabbits, breeding, feeding…