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Category Archives: Reskilling Workshops
Adverse Weather Bicycling Workshop
Two expert year-around bicyclists (Dorie and Gabor) invite you to learn all about adverse weather bicycling. Many of these techniques make general practical sense in decent weather also, so you may be interested even if you don’t plan to ride … Continue reading
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Food Day Workshop
You may have seen information in a previous post about the gleaning (don’t you find a striking resemblance between this photo and the one on the flyer :?-) and the food preserving workshop that took place lately. I have been … Continue reading
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Gleaning and Preserving
On Saturday, October 20th, we will glean Brookfield Farm to collect edible food left in the fields post-harvest. What we gather will be distributed to Not Bread Alone, the First Baptist Church food pantry, to the Food Day cooking and … Continue reading
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Food preservation workshop
There are so many ways to preserve food in harvest season, to be eaten for the rest of the year and beyond. We will look at a few, including canning (hot bath and pressure), dehydrating, fermenting, and mention others like … Continue reading
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Peach Canning Workshop
On Aug 25 Saturday 3pm to 5pm Transition Amherst holds a canning workshop. Come to 44 Beston street, to participate making peach jam or compote, fill it in jars and give the full jars a hot bath. We will look … Continue reading
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Re-Skilling Medicine
Energetic Strategies for Self-Care We are our own best doctors, a fact that’s often obscured by the magnitude of conflicting health information out there today. In this workshop, led by Doctor of Oriental medicine and author Stella Osorojos Eisenstein, you … Continue reading
Blackberry preservation workshop
Blackberries, a staple fruit of our region, are coming in fast in this heat. They are healthy, delicious when eating raw, and make excellent jam that can be stored, when canned, for years. There are two major kinds of blackberries. … Continue reading
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Bikeable Communities Workshop
MassBike is running a Bikeable Community Training on June 30th in Northampton from 1-4pm. This is the first of several trainings designed to give tools for effective local citizen engagement, and will go through case studies of successful bike-projects from … Continue reading
Reskilling: All About Water (and Elderflower Syrup)
On June 23rd (the 4th Saturday in June) we will meet at 44 Beston street (Gabor’s) from 3 to 5 pm to look at ways to save on our water and sewer bills, gain resiliency in access to clean water, … Continue reading
Energy Saving Workshop
You’re Invited to Attend a Skill-Sharing Workshop and EcoHouse Party Featuring presenters from the Center for EcoTechnology On Saturday, May 26th from 3:00-5:00pm At the home of Gabor Lukacs, 44 Beston Street, Amherst We’ll gather to share the skills and … Continue reading
