Work Party – Bulb and Garlic Planting
Join us for a work party this weekend helping to get the bulbs and garlic beds planted! And after, we’ll eat a communal meal and sing around the fire!
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Garlic and Bulb Pick-Up and Sale
Come to the farm to pick up your garlic and bulb pre-orders. Have your receipt with you. We can’t distribute orders without a receipt! If you missed the pre-order, come on out and purchase your bulbs and garlic this week only. Quantities and supplies will be limited, however.
Garlic and Bulb Pre-Orders
Get your garlic and flower bulb pre-order in. Order here on the SHOP. They can be picked up the last week of September. Permaculture Fun Fact: Allium family members are excellent rodent deterrents. This is why so many barns have large swathes of naturalised daffodils around them!
Earth Weekend
Join us for an Earth Weekend work party on the farm! We’ve planned a wonderful weekend for you. SATURDAY: Yoga Session: We’ll warm up with some yoga and set our intentions for the day. Practical Permaculture: We’ll play “The Environment Game” to get us thinking about those things that are more or less helpful to[…]
RetroSuburbia: Making Your Home, Life, and Neighborhood More Earth Friendly
This is a course based on the book of the same title by David Holmgren, co-originator of Permaculture. This will form our spine, with other books brought in for support and inspiration. This is probably the most important course I will offer to American students. We’re going to talk about how to completely retrofit your[…]
Early Spring Advanced Permaculture Practicum 2025: The Herb Garden
This is an opportunity for PDC program graduates to put their education to use. During these two weeks we will work on various projects that incorporate what you learned at your PDC. These may include large or small scale building projects, terraforming projects, planting, rainwater collection and storage, and a variety of projects that demonstrate[…]
Winter Intensive PDC 2025
Come spend two weeks in the rolling hills of central Massachusetts this autumn for a Permaculture Design course offered in the traditional two-week intensive format. 72 hours of theory, further enhanced with hands-on practicum on our 300 acre permaculture farm site. Consider joining us for our early spring intensive advanced permaculture practicum. We will use a[…]
Summer Advanced Permaculture Practicum 2024
This is an opportunity for PDC program graduates to put their education to use. During these two weeks we will work on various projects that incorporate what you learned at your PDC. These may include large or small scale building projects, terraforming projects, planting, rainwater collection and storage, and a variety of projects that demonstrate[…]
Summer Intensive PDC 2024
Come spend two weeks in the rolling hills of central Massachusetts this summer for a Permaculture Design course offered in the traditional two-week intensive format. 72 hours of theory, further enhanced with hands-on practicum on our 300 acre permaculture farm site. Optional two week intensive add-on. We will use a variety of texts, including Bill Mollison’s Permaculture[…]
Bluebird Habitat Workshop
Bluebirds are making a comeback in Massachusetts. About forty years ago, it was rare to see one. In fact, some of your parents and grandparents probably never saw one until they were adults. In the 1980s there was an effort to conserve these beautiful little birds. We’ll talk about bluebirds, their wild habitat and diet,[…]