2012 WORKSHOPS AT COLD ANTLER!
Note about workshops and payments: Workshops are a CSA model. You pay in advance, and then it is your responsibility to come at the pickup date to collect your share. There are no refunds on workshops if you cancel, but you can swap it out for another workshop, and if weather or something tragic happens that ruins it for everyone, the date will be changed for all. So be aware of this when signing up...
NEXT UP:
Plan B:
(with Kathy Harrison and James Howard Kunstler!)
NO spots available
May 12th 2012
I'm very excited to announce this special workshop coming to Cold Antler on May 12, 2012. It's about a topic on many homesteader's minds and the occasional topic of discussion on this blog: Emergency Preparedness and the Future of Energy. The focus will be specifically on preparing your small farm or homestead for a disaster (natural or man made) and how the future of energy will affect us as and how you can be ready for it. And there are going to be two amazing guest presenters sharing their minds and experiences on this topic: Kathy Harrison and James Howard Kunstler.
Kathy is the author of the book Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens, and James Howard Kunstler, an internationally-renowned speaker and author on Peak Oil and Collapse. His book, The Long Emergency, as well as Kathy's, will be included in this workshop. Both have been featured in several television shows and documentaries on these topics They are leaders in the field. And both agreed to help set up this event as a way to support Cold Antler Farm, I'm lucky to know them both.
The day of conversations and demonstrations will focus on personal disaster prep for your own farms and families. Kathy Harrison will talk about things you can do to prepare for when that ice storm takes out the power for a week, and what you can do in your current situation even if it is an apartment in the city. Topics covered will include food and water, car and personal emergency packs, first aid kits, non-electric alternatives for everyday appliances, alternative energy for your home and gadgets, gardening and preserving food, hunting and fishing, and all day questions will be welcomed and answered.
While some topics covered will be controversial, all will be based on practical skills and knowledge. This is not a Survivalist Training Camp, Tin Foil Hat Sewing Circle, or a UN stake out. If you're looking for a scary day talking about the end of the world, it isn't that either. This is a day about empowerment, action, preparing, and safety. It's about knowing that if a tree crushes your car in a storm and you're snowed in for 3 days without power you, your kids, and the dogs will have a lamp-lit scrabble night by the fireplace with some back-up kerosene heaters with a warm meal you cooked on the gas grill on the deck. Kathy will be explaining to us exactly why being prepared matters, and our responsibilities to do so. I'm sure she'll be happy to sign books and field your questions about many homesteading and preparedness topics. She has a heck of a farm!
JHK will be hitting us from a different angle. He'll be having a conversation with us on energy, peak oil, and the bigger picture, as well as his thoughts on what's in store through the next few years. Get a chance to hear one of the leading people in the field in a home setting talking about communities and localized economies. Hear his theories on why we should be thinking more about things like trains, local businesses, sustainable farm practices, and other topics. Get your copy of World Made By Hand signed by the author in the very county the book was written about!
The workshop runs from 10AM - 3PM Saturday May 19th at the farm. A water bath canning demonstration, a pressure canner overview, backyard homesteading tour, and homegrown music and home brewing will also be discussed. James is one heck of a fiddler and has been known to saw out a tune here at the farm on occasion, maybe he'll bring his along? So I hope you'll join us in this information-packed weekend talking about how to prepare for the worst, and feel safe and comfortable no matter what mother nature, your boss, or the economy throws at you!
Email me at Jenna@itsafarwalk.com to reserve a spot!
Limited to 20!
Backyard BBQ Meat Bird Class
6 spots available
June 16
So this is a workshop I'm really excited to share with you. On June 16, 2012 the farm is open for chicken school!
Email me to sign up, limited to 15 people.
MEAT RABBIT 101
15 spots available
August 11th 2012
I'll be hosting an introduction to meat rabbits later this summer here at the farm! It will be held on Sunday, August 7th. The 4-hour workshop will explain the basics of setting up a small rabitry for personal use.
Here's a great article about raising rabbits for food from the NY Times, lots of great photos!
photo from nytimes.com
Antlerstock 2012
2 Days of workshops and fellowship!
17 spots available
Columbus Day Weekend 2012
Antlerstock 2012 will be held here at Cold Antler on Columbus Day Weekend. I'm expanding the workshops, events, and options this year and starting it (informally) on Friday night.
email me at jenna@itsafarwalk.com if interested! First come, first served as far as reservations go!
photo by timothy bronson of 468photography.com
I am quivering with excitement as I write about this! This October 27th the Saturday of Hallow's, Cold Antler Farm and Livingston Brook Farm are co-hosting an all day workshop on the Farmer's Horse. A whole day dedicated entirely to equine draft power for field, road, and pasture!
The point of the workshop is to learn the basics of taking on a horse, pony, or mule as a beginner farmer. Whether it is a farm pony like Jasper or a bigger draft like Steele, this is a day for you to gain some hands-on experience and get your questions answered, farmer to farmer, about the realities of working and living with horses.
This is not a horse-training demo, professional clinic, nor is it driving lessons. It is a friendly first step towards working with horses in your own life. It's an introduction to the broad-backed basics of working horses. The breeds of horses and work, the equipment and harnesses, and will end with a lecture by a seasoned Natural Horsemanship trainer's advice on choosing a horse of your own some day.
The day will start out at Cold Antler Farm where you'll get to meet Jasper and Merlin and learn the basics of housing, fencing, and keeping a horse on small acreage. We'll talk about riding your horse, and the kinds of saddles and styles of bridles, bits, reins, and tack. We'll talk about what to realistically expect cost wise and how I manage to do it here at Cold Antler. We'll harness a horse together, going over all the pieces and parts of that complicated beast. Learn what those strange words and straps mean, and how it all fits together and what they do. Lead Jasper along with a stack of firewood on the back of a stone boat. Learn about curb chains and blinders with Steele. There will be discussions on how to proceed in your own area, too: mentors, local draft clubs and such.
Lunch will be brought, bagged. Please bring a picnic style spread for your own enjoyment. We'll most likely break sometime in the early afternoon.
After lunch we'll drive a few miles over to Livingston Brook Farm where we'll meet Steele, the Percheron with power, and see the same stuff on a larger scale and enjoy some time in the back of a cart. Patty will talk about her own experience with her horse, how they learned together. She'll give you rides and show us her different vehicles (cart, sleigh, and forecart) and talk about the uses and advantages of all.
After all that a Driving Specialist/ Natural Horsemanship trainer will be there to give an afternoon lecture on selecting the right horse for you, and what to look for when you are ready to grab the reins. This will be a chance to really ask the hard questions. A nice wrap-up to our day of Draft School 101.
When the workshop part is over we'll dismiss and those who want to stick around can stay for a cookout/campfire are welcome! And get this, we'll end things right. With the light of lanterns and jack-o-lanterns we'll enjoy a campfire reading of excerpts from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and sip hot cider and warm stews under wool blankets around the flickering light. And if you never heard the tale of our own New York State's Headless Horseman after a day with horses around a campfire...well, you best come and find out!
If interested, please email me at Jenna@itsafarwalk.com to sign up. Half of the workshop fee will be needed upfront ($75) and the second half paid the day of the class. Discounts for couples and groups, as always. Mark your calendars and get out your deerskin gloves, we're going grab those reins!
top photo of me and jasper by tim bronson
468photography.com
NEXT UP:
Plan B:
(with Kathy Harrison and James Howard Kunstler!)
NO spots available
May 12th 2012
I'm very excited to announce this special workshop coming to Cold Antler on May 12, 2012. It's about a topic on many homesteader's minds and the occasional topic of discussion on this blog: Emergency Preparedness and the Future of Energy. The focus will be specifically on preparing your small farm or homestead for a disaster (natural or man made) and how the future of energy will affect us as and how you can be ready for it. And there are going to be two amazing guest presenters sharing their minds and experiences on this topic: Kathy Harrison and James Howard Kunstler. Kathy is the author of the book Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens, and James Howard Kunstler, an internationally-renowned speaker and author on Peak Oil and Collapse. His book, The Long Emergency, as well as Kathy's, will be included in this workshop. Both have been featured in several television shows and documentaries on these topics They are leaders in the field. And both agreed to help set up this event as a way to support Cold Antler Farm, I'm lucky to know them both.
The day of conversations and demonstrations will focus on personal disaster prep for your own farms and families. Kathy Harrison will talk about things you can do to prepare for when that ice storm takes out the power for a week, and what you can do in your current situation even if it is an apartment in the city. Topics covered will include food and water, car and personal emergency packs, first aid kits, non-electric alternatives for everyday appliances, alternative energy for your home and gadgets, gardening and preserving food, hunting and fishing, and all day questions will be welcomed and answered.While some topics covered will be controversial, all will be based on practical skills and knowledge. This is not a Survivalist Training Camp, Tin Foil Hat Sewing Circle, or a UN stake out. If you're looking for a scary day talking about the end of the world, it isn't that either. This is a day about empowerment, action, preparing, and safety. It's about knowing that if a tree crushes your car in a storm and you're snowed in for 3 days without power you, your kids, and the dogs will have a lamp-lit scrabble night by the fireplace with some back-up kerosene heaters with a warm meal you cooked on the gas grill on the deck. Kathy will be explaining to us exactly why being prepared matters, and our responsibilities to do so. I'm sure she'll be happy to sign books and field your questions about many homesteading and preparedness topics. She has a heck of a farm!
JHK will be hitting us from a different angle. He'll be having a conversation with us on energy, peak oil, and the bigger picture, as well as his thoughts on what's in store through the next few years. Get a chance to hear one of the leading people in the field in a home setting talking about communities and localized economies. Hear his theories on why we should be thinking more about things like trains, local businesses, sustainable farm practices, and other topics. Get your copy of World Made By Hand signed by the author in the very county the book was written about!The workshop runs from 10AM - 3PM Saturday May 19th at the farm. A water bath canning demonstration, a pressure canner overview, backyard homesteading tour, and homegrown music and home brewing will also be discussed. James is one heck of a fiddler and has been known to saw out a tune here at the farm on occasion, maybe he'll bring his along? So I hope you'll join us in this information-packed weekend talking about how to prepare for the worst, and feel safe and comfortable no matter what mother nature, your boss, or the economy throws at you!
Email me at Jenna@itsafarwalk.com to reserve a spot!
Limited to 20!
Backyard BBQ Meat Bird Class
6 spots available
June 16
So this is a workshop I'm really excited to share with you. On June 16, 2012 the farm is open for chicken school! Email me to sign up, limited to 15 people.
MEAT RABBIT 101
15 spots available
August 11th 2012
I'll be hosting an introduction to meat rabbits later this summer here at the farm! It will be held on Sunday, August 7th. The 4-hour workshop will explain the basics of setting up a small rabitry for personal use. Here's a great article about raising rabbits for food from the NY Times, lots of great photos!
photo from nytimes.com
Antlerstock 2012
2 Days of workshops and fellowship!
17 spots available
Columbus Day Weekend 2012
Antlerstock 2012 will be held here at Cold Antler on Columbus Day Weekend. I'm expanding the workshops, events, and options this year and starting it (informally) on Friday night. email me at jenna@itsafarwalk.com if interested! First come, first served as far as reservations go!
photo by timothy bronson of 468photography.com
I am quivering with excitement as I write about this! This October 27th the Saturday of Hallow's, Cold Antler Farm and Livingston Brook Farm are co-hosting an all day workshop on the Farmer's Horse. A whole day dedicated entirely to equine draft power for field, road, and pasture!The point of the workshop is to learn the basics of taking on a horse, pony, or mule as a beginner farmer. Whether it is a farm pony like Jasper or a bigger draft like Steele, this is a day for you to gain some hands-on experience and get your questions answered, farmer to farmer, about the realities of working and living with horses.
This is not a horse-training demo, professional clinic, nor is it driving lessons. It is a friendly first step towards working with horses in your own life. It's an introduction to the broad-backed basics of working horses. The breeds of horses and work, the equipment and harnesses, and will end with a lecture by a seasoned Natural Horsemanship trainer's advice on choosing a horse of your own some day.
The day will start out at Cold Antler Farm where you'll get to meet Jasper and Merlin and learn the basics of housing, fencing, and keeping a horse on small acreage. We'll talk about riding your horse, and the kinds of saddles and styles of bridles, bits, reins, and tack. We'll talk about what to realistically expect cost wise and how I manage to do it here at Cold Antler. We'll harness a horse together, going over all the pieces and parts of that complicated beast. Learn what those strange words and straps mean, and how it all fits together and what they do. Lead Jasper along with a stack of firewood on the back of a stone boat. Learn about curb chains and blinders with Steele. There will be discussions on how to proceed in your own area, too: mentors, local draft clubs and such.
Lunch will be brought, bagged. Please bring a picnic style spread for your own enjoyment. We'll most likely break sometime in the early afternoon.
After lunch we'll drive a few miles over to Livingston Brook Farm where we'll meet Steele, the Percheron with power, and see the same stuff on a larger scale and enjoy some time in the back of a cart. Patty will talk about her own experience with her horse, how they learned together. She'll give you rides and show us her different vehicles (cart, sleigh, and forecart) and talk about the uses and advantages of all. After all that a Driving Specialist/ Natural Horsemanship trainer will be there to give an afternoon lecture on selecting the right horse for you, and what to look for when you are ready to grab the reins. This will be a chance to really ask the hard questions. A nice wrap-up to our day of Draft School 101.
When the workshop part is over we'll dismiss and those who want to stick around can stay for a cookout/campfire are welcome! And get this, we'll end things right. With the light of lanterns and jack-o-lanterns we'll enjoy a campfire reading of excerpts from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and sip hot cider and warm stews under wool blankets around the flickering light. And if you never heard the tale of our own New York State's Headless Horseman after a day with horses around a campfire...well, you best come and find out!
If interested, please email me at Jenna@itsafarwalk.com to sign up. Half of the workshop fee will be needed upfront ($75) and the second half paid the day of the class. Discounts for couples and groups, as always. Mark your calendars and get out your deerskin gloves, we're going grab those reins!
top photo of me and jasper by tim bronson
468photography.com
posted by Jenna at 10:22 AM
19 Comments:
Oooo tell me more about backyard chickens...we've been thinking about doing it. Your videos with your chickies are my favorites!
More to come on them, and spring rabbit workshops soon, but I need to change the date of the meat workshop!! it conflicts with the wool II
I wish you lived closer! I would love the Urban Homesteading and the backyard chickens workshops!
WIsh I didn't live so far away.
Could you make a dvd of the Mountain Music so faraways could learn too? I for one would just love that.
I think i'll look into webinars...is it possible to make a series of provate youtube videos that can only be seen by a link?
Jenna, you need to get in touch with me. I will email you another address.
I saw the Urban Homesteading workshop and my brain started working, wondering how I could make it happen. But the move is more important, getting out of our apartment and into a house up in Asheville, so I came down to earth and reminded myself that my time will come. Thank you so much for offering these workshops to educate and stir the dreams of the folks who are still sitting on the sidelines, waiting, hoping...
Jenna, is Antlerstock 2012 full, a year in advance? I think that might be a typo. At least, I hope it is, since I'd love to go to that one.
I'm so excited for you and everyone going to these workshops! I'll be moved to New England by Summer. I hope.
it's a TYPO! I'll adjust!
Jenna, yes, you can have Youtubes that can only be viewed if you are specifically given the link to the video. When you upload a video, there are different options for that. One is public viewing, in which case anyone can search for and view. Second is "unlisted"; only those with the link can view. And third is "Private"; only specific YouTube users can use.
Would love some webinars!!
Do you charge for the workshops or are they free?
They are donation-based, email me for detail, thanks!
Yes, if you could do a webinar on the music, that would be AWESOME. I'm too far away to drive to you (and too broke to fly..lol) but I'd love to see that one!
Jenna, you need to come down to Ga. to do a wool workshop. I have a little guest house and 2 extra rooms upstairs and I would feed you really good! Something to think about anyway.
I just got a beautiful dark chocolate brown Finn ewe and a half Suffolk and Finn ewe yesterday. They are 6 months old. The lady I got them from is coming in a few weeks to help shear the brown ewe. So I will have my own wool! I need to know what to do after that.
This really would be a great place to have a workshop. I know several people that would come and there are alot of your readers that live close. Just a thought. And the Chattanooga area is just too beautiful.
Hi Jenna,
I'm really interested in one of your Black Sheep Wool Workshop if you have any more space and could email me more info!
Thanks! Kelly
PS- Maybe there is more info somewhere on here, I'm just not very good with computers- apologies!! :)
kelly, just email me at jenna@itsafarwalk.com i don't know your email address or I would contact you!
Interested in mountain music........and coming to see the farm and the fruits of your labors. Live relatively close.......please convo me the details.
just email me at jenna@itsafarwalk.com
details there!
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