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SUMMARY:Preparing Your Hives for Winter
DESCRIPTION:With Bill Day\nLabor Day to Thanksgiving is the time to make sure your hives have everything they need to survive the winter months and meet the spring ready to build up and thrive. \nIn this half-day workshop\, Pfeiffer Center beekeeper Bill Day will share his checklist for winter readiness\, the reasoning behind it\, and how to apply it. Weather permitting\, most of our time will be spent at the hives in the Pfeiffer Center garden. \nYou will leave this workshop with clear guidelines for evaluating your hives\, and steps to take to prepare them for the coming winter. \nBill Day has been keeping bees for fifteen years. He is the beekeeper and beekeeping instructor at the Pfeiffer Center\, and also keeps bees at Bluefield Farm in Blauvelt\, NY.
URL:https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/preparing-your-hives-for-winter/
LOCATION:Threefold Main House\, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beekeeping
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SUMMARY:Conscious Beekeeping
DESCRIPTION:With Bill Day\nThe growing popularity of small-scale beekeeping is good news for the bees\, but it also raises its own set of challenges. Rarely does a small-scale beekeeper encounter Colony Collapse — but every beekeeper must contend with Varroa mites\, scant forage\, and scarce high-quality package bees and nucs. \nWhat can we do to help our bees thrive and flourish? Starting from an understanding of the honeybee colony as an organism unlike any other found in nature\, we will consider: Swarming as an expression of the bees’ vitality • healthy rhythms of life in the hive\, and how to support them • when to intervene and when to let your bees manage on their own • increasing your apiary naturally with splits and swarms while breeding better\, locally-adapted queens • alternative hive designs • managing Varroa • and more. \nWeather permitting\, we’ll visit the Pfeiffer Center’s apiary\, where techniques discussed in the classroom will be demonstrated. \nBeginning beekeepers are strongly encouraged to attend the optional Friday afternoon beginner’s workshop. \nBill Day first learned beekeeping from Gunther Hauk as an intern at the Pfeiffer Center in 2001-02. He is the Pfeiffer Center’s beekeeper and beekeeping instructor. He also keeps bees at Bluefield Farm in Blauvelt\, NY.
URL:https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/conscious-beekeeping-practical-organic-approaches-for-healthy-bees-and-growing-apiaries/
LOCATION:Threefold Main House\, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beekeeping
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SUMMARY:Conscious Beekeeping: Special Session for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:With Bill Day\nThis half-day orientation for beginning beekeepers will cover: Basic biology of the honeybee colony; rhythms of the year and the beekeeper’s role in the life of the hive; alternative hive designs; siting your hives; and the basics of working with bees. \nWeather permitting\, we will visit the Pfeiffer Center’s apiary\, where we’ll open a hive and illuminate topics discussed in the classroom. \nBeginning beekeepers who plan to attend the Conscious Beekeeping workshop on Saturday\, April 27 (see below) are strongly encouraged to register for this session. \nBill Day first learned beekeeping from Gunther Hauk as an intern at the Pfeiffer Center in 2001-02. He is the Pfeiffer Center’s beekeeper and beekeeping instructor. He also keeps bees at Bluefield Farm in Blauvelt\, NY.
URL:https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/conscious-beekeeping-special-session-for-beginners/
LOCATION:Threefold Main House\, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beekeeping
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190413T090000
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SUMMARY:Begin a Vegetable Garden
DESCRIPTION:With Mac Mead\nThis workshop is for anyone who wants to start a vegetable garden\, incorporating basic skills for new gardeners. Topics covered will include: planning the garden (what goes where and when)\, preparing the soil\, fencing the garden\, planting and raising seedlings\, companion planting\, making and using compost\, and weeding and mulching. Participants will walk away with the information and hands-on experience they need to get started this spring in their own garden. \nThe general context will be that of organic and biodynamic gardening\, although details about specific biodynamic practices will not be included. The workshop is highly recommended for those without previous gardening experience who are interested in attending the Pfeiffer Center’s One-Year Part-Time Training in Biodynamics. \nMac Mead has farmed and gardened biodynamically for nearly forty years. As a co-worker at the Fellowship Community from 1975 until 2005\, Mac learned biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer. Mac was the resident farmer at the Fellowship Community’s Duryea Farm from 1997 until 2005\, and has been Program Director of the Pfeiffer Center since 2007.
URL:https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/begin-a-vegetable-garden/
LOCATION:Threefold Main House\, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gardening
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SUMMARY:The Seed: Chaos\, Cosmos\, and Soil
DESCRIPTION:The 2019 Pfeiffer Center Midwinter Agriculture Intensive \nWith Mac Mead\, Megan Durney\, Harald Hoven\, and Beth Corymb\nUsing Rudolf Steiner’s agriculture course as a foundation\, we will explore “the seed” in its dynamic and complex relationship to the depths of the Earth\, the expanses of the cosmos\, and the agricultural individuality. Working in large and small groups\, through art\, movement\, plant observation\, and hands-on seed work (threshing and winnowing)\, we will delve into the mysteries of the seed-forming process. \nThis long weekend is truly a unique educational and social opportunity to broaden and deepen your understanding of the role of biodynamics in the development of humanity and agriculture. Join us! \nSchedule\n\nThe schedule is subject to change. \nFaculty\nMac Mead has farmed and gardened biodynamically for nearly forty years. As a co-worker at the Fellowship Community beginning in 1975\, Mac learned biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of biodynamic pioneer Ehrenfried Pfeiffer. Mac has gardened and farmed on every scale\, from handwork to field-scale vegetables\, tended an orchard\, and managed dairy cows. Mac was the resident farmer at the Fellowship Community’s Duryea Farm from 1997 until 2005\, and has been the Pfeiffer Center’s Program Director since 2007. \nMegan Durney came to the Pfeiffer Center as an intern in 2007\, following stints as a WWOOFer and post-Katrina AmeriCorps volunteer. As the Pfeiffer Center’s Head Gardener\, Megan trains and supervises interns\, directs the creation of each year’s planting calendar\, manages produce sales (including the Pfeiffer Center’s CSA and farm stand)\, and directs production of Pfeiffer Center herb salt\, teas and salves. She also conducts the Neighbor to Neighbor afterschool program. \nHarald Hoven\, a German-trained biodynamic farmer\, founded and directed Raphael Garden at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks\, CA (1987-2017). Besides training nearly 100 apprentices\, Raphael Garden offered biodynamic adult education\, a 70-member year-round CSA\, and a large seed-saving and plant-breeding program. Turtle Tree Seed carries a large selection of Raphael Garden-developed seeds. Since retiring from RSC\, Harald has consulted for and mentored biodynamic farmers\, primarily in California. He also travels and teaches internationally\, focusing on preparation making and biodynamic practices. \nBeth Corymb is the founder\, with her husband Nathan\, of Meadowlark Hearth Biodynamic Seed Initiative\, based on Beth’s grandparents’ 492-acre homestead in western Nebraska. Beth and Nathan began biodynamic farming and seed-saving at Camphill villages in the early 1980s; in 1994 they founded the Turtle Tree Biodynamic Seed Initiative\, and in 1998 they combined Turtle Tree’s seed work with social therapeutic work at Camphill Village Copake\, NY. Beth holds a degree in piano performance and researches how agriculture\, the cosmos\, and music intertwine with and augment each other. The Corymbs are committed to reintegrating seed growing into everyday agriculture on diverse\, sustainable\, human-scale farms. \nArtistic Activities\nEach day will feature interval singing as a group led by Beth Corymb. In addition\, attendees will choose between eurythmy with Brigida Baldszun or clay modeling (faculty to be announced). \nRecommended Reading\nRudolf Steiner\, Man as Symphony of the Creative Word\, lecture 7\, and lecture 2 of Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture lectures. \nMeals\nThe course fee includes five meals provided by Threefold Café: lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday plus lunch on Monday. In addition\, the nearby Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market serves organic take-out\, and there are many restaurants within driving distance. \nHousing\nIf you need housing\, you must make separate arrangements. Rooms are available in our dormitory\, Holder House; in homes of community residents; and in nearby hotels. For housing information\, please click here. \nPlease note: This is not an introductory course. Participants are expected to be familiar with Rudolf Steiner’s agriculture lectures and to have some working knowledge of biodynamics.
URL:https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/the-seed-chaos-cosmos-and-soil/
LOCATION:Threefold Main House\, 285 Hungry Hollow Rd\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Midwinter Intensive
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