The Winter Farm Arts course for youth introduces a series of hands-on, farm-to-table arts skills that inspire and renew the gardeners’ creative spirit during the quieter months on the farm.
Hugh Williams, one of the best orchardists in the East and a biodynamic farmer for over forty five years, brings his perspective on harnessing the local ecology to cultivate the farm individuality. Also covered: the science and art of pruning fruit trees, including a few hours of pruning the Pfeiffer Center’s orchard under Hugh’s expert guidance.
In the morning, Craig Holdrege explores how to work with the living dynamic qualities of plants and animals to better understand the world around us. In the afternoon, Sherry Wildfeuer, a long-time editor of the Stella Natura planting calendar, explains how the calendar is created, what it tells us, and how we can use it to learn to work with, rather than against, nature’s rhythms and forces.
CANCELED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES!
This workshop with Mac Mead is for anyone who wants to start a vegetable garden, incorporating basic skills for new gardeners.
The Pfeiffer Center’s Biodynamic Course is a year-long part-time training that covers the basic principles of Biodynamic Agriculture according to the seasons, in thirteen full-day workshops.
Come to buy beautiful, healthy, biodynamic plants for your garden. We will have vegetables, herbs, and flowers, along with Garden Gold compost, as well as salves and lightroot herb salt. We look forward to helping you start your 2024 garden. See you soon!
A farm and garden 4-week session for ages 6-14
A Weekly Class Open to Everyone. Learn how to grow food and care for the farm animals!
Mac Mead introduces biodynamics in the context of the spiritual-scientific understanding of earth evolution. In the garden, we do hands-on work with the horn manure preparation, transplanting, raised beds, and planting cover crops.
