Biodynamic Training Offered By Bio-Dynamic Farmers
These are classes we are offering in March and April at our biodynamic farm in southwest WA, Friendly Haven Rise. If you are coming from a distance you are welcome to stay over in our roomy farmhouse. We have two classes back to back next weekend — Birds and Bees — and if anyone on this list would like to take both, we’ve got room for sleepovers. We’re 1 hr 45 min south of Olympia and 35 min. north of Portland.
Capturing Golden Sunshine
These are short descriptions. If you’d like to see more, visit
www.FriendlyHaven.com/classes.html
1. Backyard Chickens
2. Bees: The OTHER Way
3. Making Non-dairy Fruit Kefir Soda
4. Glorious Eggs
5. Grow Exceptional Food: High Nutritional Density Gardening
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1. Backyard CHICKENS from A to Z
March 14 or Apr 11
10-4 $75
Eggs from your own chickens are the healthiest, freshest eggs you’ll ever eat. And once you try them you’ll finally know how good an egg can taste. This class will teach you all you need to know about chickens to keep them happy and healthy in your backyard whether that’s in the city or the country. Enjoy fresh eggs from your feathered flock. Take home all you need to start, including chicks and the right equipment for them. Learn all about hen health and caring for them, different kinds of coops and nesting boxes, fencing so they’re safe, even how to raise them so they enjoy interacting with you. We even provide phone support once you get your birds home!
* Taught by Brenda Wilson, passionate chicken lover with 40 years of bird raising and teaching experience.
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2. BEES: The Other Way
March 15 or Apr 26
10-4 $50
This class is for both beekeepers and folks who want to know how to provide a better environment for pollinators so they can stay healthy and continue pollinating everything in sight. Everything is done with respect and appreciation for these marvelous little bee-ings.
Lots of info on
* Organic and biodynamic care
* The roles of the bee family
* Catching wild swarms
* Preventing CCD and bee diseases so your
bees are truly healthy
* Developing a caring relationship with the hives
* Taste different kinds of honey and pollen
* Medicinal gardens to help bees stay healthy
* Different hives (lang, top bar, warre, tree trunks, skeps)
* How other cultures care for their bees
This class is designed to give you an understanding of what bees need and want and how to provide for them with kindness and love. Taught by Jacqueline Freeman, lover of bees.
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3. Make Non-dairy FRUIT KEFIR SODA
Tues. March 17 6:30-8:30 at the farm $20
or Sat. March 28 11 – 1 in Portland $25
Kefir is known worldwide for promoting longevity and good health. Learn to make healthful juice drinks that are filled with probiotics and tasty, too. This beverage is fruit-infused, naturally carbonated, healthful, inexpensive and oh-so refreshing. Class includes LOTS of samples, history, creative demos and kefir crystals so you can make them yourself. Forever.
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4. Glorious EGGS: Fabulous Ways to Prepare and Eat Them
Sat. April 4 3-6pm $40 (bring an appetite!)
Spring is EGG SEASON. Seems our hens lay a new one every few hours. What shall we do with them all? Join local sustainable chef Chris Musser for an all-about-eggs cooking class. We’ll make two simple appetizers, a finger-lickin’-good mayonnaise, a versatile no-crust quiche, fragrant curry and an impressively delicious vanilla and chocolate custard, all featuring eggs from our own hens.
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5. Grow EXCEPTIONAL FOOD
Saturday, April 25 at the farm (35 min. N of Portland)
or Sunday, April 26 in Snoqualmie (30 min. E of Seattle)
9-4 $100 ($175 couples)
In this workshop you will learn something that’s hard to figure out these days — how to grow food with extremely high nutritional density. Learn to nourish your soil so your soil can nourish you. A balance of theory and practice helps you understand precisely what your soil needs to help it and you to flourish. Healthy soils not only grow healthy people, they grow healthy, pest-free plants, a win-win all around.
Topics include:
* The soil food-web is and how to nourish it
* How to use soil testing to organically amend imbalanced garden soil
* Increasing plant vitality with foliar fertiliziing and microbial innoculation
* Improving soil health in established gardens with top dressing
* Save money by making your own inexpensive compost tea brewer
* The value of effective microorganisms and sea minerals
* Increasing microbial diversity and numbers
* Using a refractometer to determine brix and monitor your garden’s progress
Taught by Steve Divers, a national soil, crop and compost consultant who’s been speaking about and creating organic soil fertility since the 1980s. Well known as a insightful researcher and knowledgeable organic/biodynamic farmer, Steve was Senior Agriculture Specialist for the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA) and a member of the Science and Technical Advisory Committee for the Organic Center. He helps gardeners and farmers raise soil fertility far beyond current norms.
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Call to reserve a space 360-687-8485
www.FriendlyHaven.com
Email us for carpools & simple driving directions at friendlyhaven@gmail.com
