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Pink Petunias in the Snow: The Basics of Fall and Winter Gardening
Posted by Sharon Astyk on July 6, 2010 Garden Calendar When the dogstar is aglow plant petunias in the snow. When the snow begins to melt Wrap your hollyhocks in felt. When the felt begins to bloom pick the apples off your broom. When the broom begins to wear weed the turnips in your chair. When the chair begins to rock prune the…
Adapting-In-Place Class Starts Thursday
Posted by Sharon Astyk on May 24, 2010 Just a reminder that Aaron Newton (my co-author on A Nation of Farmers) and I will be running our Adapting in Place Class online for six weeks, starting Thursday. The class is asynchronous – you don’t have to be online at any particular time, just participate when you like. The goal of the class is…
Adapting in Place and Memorial Day Weekend
Posted by Sharon Astyk on May 14, 2010 A couple of administrative notes before I head off to a weekend involving friends, arboretum plant sales, weeding the asparagus patch, planting an alphabet garden and trying to decide if we really do need a pet sheep. First, as some of you may remember I’m running an on-site family workshop at my house in rural…
Food Storage and Preservation Class Starting Tomorrow!
Posted by Sharon Astyk on April 14, 2010 I still have two remaining spots in my online food storage and preservation class, starting tomorrow! If you’d like to join us you can read about the class and the syllabus here, and email me at jewishfarmer@gmail.com to reserve a spot or ask more questions! Cheers, Sharon
Food Storage and Preservation Syllabus
Posted by Sharon Astyk on April 5, 2010 There is still space in my upcoming (starts April 15) Food Storage and Preservation Online class, for those who are interesting. If you’ve wanted to start preserving or building up a food reserve and have no idea how to start, or perhaps you learned to can once upon a time, but want to explore the…
Food Preservation and Storage Class
Posted by Sharon Astyk on March 25, 2010 I’ve had a lot of people ask when I was going to run food preservation and storage again, and ta da! I am. I’m doing it as a six week course, run asynchronously online on from April 15 to the end of May. I’ll put material up on Thursdays, but you can participate at your…
What Else Should I Write About?
Posted by Sharon Astyk on February 11, 2010 Not promising anything – and definitely not promising anything until the book is done, but does anyone have topics they’d like your blogiste to cover? What do you want to hear me go on about? BTW, if you are interested in more in-depth going on (plus a whole lot of awesome other stuff), Aaron and…
Ways to Connect
Posted by Sharon Astyk on February 2, 2010 I’ve got a couple of speaking engagements and another class coming up, and I thought I’d let you know where I’m going to be and when. First, on Saturday, March 6, I’ll be in Concord, NH at the NOFA-NH Winter Conference. The Northeast Organic Farming Association has been so powerful in creating conditions for small…
Piece By Piece
Posted by Sharon Astyk on January 11, 2010 I’m back after four days of teaching a workshop at my house. It was awesome. It was exhausting. It was fascinating. We milked goats (note, very small adorable goats sell themselves. It is not necessary to talk them up, just to frisk people trying to hide goats under their jackets on the way out ).…
Classes
Posted by Sharon Astyk on December 29, 2009 From time to time my co-author on _A Nation of Farmers_ and I teach classes on practical topics about adapting to lower energy life, food storage and preservation, garden and farm design, etc… The classes are offered online and are asynchronous (ie, you don’t have to be online at any particular time – we post…