Hi Friends,
Spring is such a busy time and there is so much going on here right now. Coming up on May 12, The Farm School Family Fest features the first public pizza served hot from the new cob oven constructed during last year's natural building workshops. I can hardly wait!
This year's Conference on Community and Sustainability features a powerful lineup of workshop leaders taking on some of the most important subjects of our time and issues critical for learning how to live and work together. |
Join members of Swan Trust as we do clean up at our 20 acre Langford Branch property that lies adjacent to a state highway, a site preserved to protect a federally endangered plant.
I am excited to be hosting my first Organic Gardening Intensive June 3-10. Folks are also welcome to come just for the weekend June 8-10. We combine hands-on gardening with classes and visits to gardens and CSA's in the area.
No time to write more. To quote Joni Mitchell, "Got to get back to the garden!" |
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Yours in community,
Douglas
Douglas@thefarmcommunity.com |
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The Pizza Oven at Farm School Family Fest
Cob is a building material consisting of a mixture of clay and straw. Clay ovens have been around for centuries and we are excited to deliver our first pizzas served hot and fresh from the new oven built adjacent to The Farm School during this year's
Farm School Family Fest.
The fire will be lit around noon, taking several hours to reach 600 degrees inside, the desired temperature to bake a pizza in just 3 minutes!
Of course there will also be fun and games for the kids, tours, music, a talent show and more! It's a great weekend to come see The Farm!
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Get your fresh hot pizza right out of the cob oven! |
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Swan Trust's Annual Stream Clean Up May 19
Swan Trust owns a 23-acre State Natural Area alongside Langford Branch and Highway 412
that protects a special seep habitat, home to the federally
endangered Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass, (Xyris tennesseensis). This
rare plant has only been found in Tennessee in the seeps of Lewis
County.
With
portions of the property and creek running
adjacent to a busy highway,
the area is plagued with litter. Swan Trust
sponsors regular clean up
campaigns to bag trash and preserve the
integrity of the stream. After the clean up we'll provide lunch and each participant will receive a cap or t-shirt.
Contact me for directions. Douglas@thefarmcommunity.com 931-964-2590
or contact Swan Trust foreverwild@swantrust.org 931-964-4402 |
Federally
endangered Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass,
(Xyris tennesseensis) |
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The Farm Conference on
Community and Sustainability, held over Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27, is a
unique opportunity to gain direct experience in the tools of community
building.
Albert Bates will deliver a keynote address on Friday evening. Founder of the Ecovillage Training Center and author of numerous books, from one of the first books on global warming back in the 1980's, Climate in Crisis, to his more recent Post Petroleum Survival Guide and The Biochar Solution, his talks
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Laird Schaub is a member of Sandhill Farm community in Missouri, and is currently Executive Secretary for the Fellowship of Intentional Communities.
A longtime activist in
community networking, he travels the country doing consulting work on group process. Laird will lead a workshop on consensus building and conflict resolution in community.
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Harvey
Baker is a co-founder of 35 year old Dunmire Hollow Community, in rural southern Tennessee. He
has been a board member of the
Fellowship for Intentional Community since 1988, and is past president
of the Communal Studies Association.
He is a trained meeting
facilitator, and has worked with groups interested in adopting consensus
or improving their meeting process. Harvey's workshop will teach how to build community where you are. Register Today |
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Women's Retreat June 1-3, 2012 register online
Join us as we come together to build on our inner strength and awaken our power as the source of all life in the universe.
- Sharing Circles
- Workshops and Classes
- Connection with Nature
- Exercises to build bonds
- More to come!
Co-Hosted by Kathleen Rosemary and Alayne Chauncy
Located in a private space with no vehicle or pedestrian traffic |
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