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Category Archives: Reskilling Workshops
Permaculture Design: Connecting you with your backyard landscape
Learn how permaculture design connects you with your landscape, creating a mutually beneficial relationship of food production, native plants, and energy-wise design. This is an opportunity to join in a permaculture designer’s consultation and assessment of a local backyard landscape, … Continue reading
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Welding Workshop
Whether one uses welding to fix up garden tools, build something functional, or create an art piece, it is a skill that is harder to find than wood working, carpentry or gardening. Resourcing a fix in this area from someone … Continue reading
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Hoop Dreams and Winter Greens
When: 11:00am – 2:00pm, Sunday Oct. 13th Where: Laughing Dog Farm, Gill, MA This hands-on workshop and community “bender” this Sunday at Laughing Dog Farm focuses on season-extension, using low cost, homemade, un-heated “tunnels” or “hoophouses” to keep alive cold-hardy … Continue reading
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Bicycle Garden Tour Video
We had a successful tour, where we visited three new gardens and an older one. But all of the stops were more than just seeing a garden. We learned as well a bit about what it took to make that … Continue reading
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Peach Canning
On September 29, Sunday, from noon on, come to a peach canning event. Come to 45 Roosevelt St. Hadley (Roosevelt and N. Maple are the same road.), to participate making peach jam or compote, fill it in jars and give … Continue reading
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Effective Collaboration
Nick Osborne from the Transition Network in the U.K. coming to Amherst, MA on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21 & 22 to give his popular training. Nick is only doing three training weekends in the U.S. and the other ones … Continue reading
Edible Garden Bicycle Tour
Transition Amherst is co sponsoring an event with Grow Food Amherst and Sustaining Amherst; a tour of some of Amherst’s edible gardens on bicycles. The tour will take place on Saturday, August 24th – we will leave the north side … Continue reading
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Bicycles and Trailers
Another bicycle workshop, but with a twist. I have a group of folks, who are interested in the basics of bicycle maintenance but also want to know how to build a bicycle trailer. Not only they want to know, they … Continue reading
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Permaculture get-together with Roberto Perez Rivero
We have a permaculture/sustainability rockstar (from Cuba!) coming to our town. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1970; Roberto Perez Rivero is an environmentalist, sustainability activist and international educator. Roberto has been part of the Cuban Permaculture movement since its introduction … Continue reading
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Bicycle Maintenance
As more and more people realize the damage using a car does to our environment and to our wallets bicycling gets a better press in spite of all the discomfort we associate with it. And wait until you actually get … Continue reading
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