Canning with the Sawtooth Botanical Garden
What: Family Canning Workshop
Location: Sawtooth Botanical Garden (Highway 75 & Gimlet Road, Ketchum, ID. 83340)
Date: Wednesday, September 29
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Cost: $15M, $25NM. Materials included.
To join in on the fun or for more information, contact Teresa at (208) 726-9358
Join us for a traditional and exciting harvest activity! We will be making...
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MUSICAL LEGEND JUDY COLLINS TO HEADLINE HARVESTIVAL!
Grant Family Farms invites you to join in its 2010 Harvestival celebration on September 11th and 12th. Harvestival is two days of music, speakers, hands-on demonstrations, and fun activities for the kids. The event, which is held on beautiful Grant Family Farms in Wellington, Colorado, starts daily...
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Years of gardening have taught me one thing for certain: to never rely on my memory of this year’s garden to help me plan for the next. I’m not referring to my long term memory. I can tell a argyranthemum from a leucanthemum in nothing flat. I can tell you if hypericum likes wet...
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August 28 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm
FarmGirl Flower & Garden Shoppe
227 Haywood Road (Next Door to Short Street Cakes)
West Asheville, NC
“In a Pickle” Beginners Canning Workshop
with Ashley English, author of:
Homemade Living: Canning & Preserving with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to make Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Chutneys & More.
For more info call: 828-505-4115
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Watermelons in Siberia?
If they can save seeds in Russia, imagine what we can do here?
The legendary Bill McDorman from Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens shares stories and techniques on
Thursday, August 19th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden,
11 Gimlet Road in Ketchum. $10 donation. For more info: belle@seedstrust.com
More Information:
GOING TO SEED – Summer Revival Tour
Sawtooth Botanical...
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August 22 · 12:00am – 11:30pm
Place: Your garden, your community, your country, your planet
Organize your own local event here:
http://www.meetup.com/World-Kitchen-Garden-Day
Kitchen Garden Day is an annual, decentralized celebration of kitchen gardens and delicious, home-grown foods. It started as a healthy rebuttal to “Snack Food Month” organized by the International Snack Food Association each February. The thinking...
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August 28 · 5:00pm – 11:00pm
Applecheek Farm
567 McFarlane Road, Hyde Park ,Vermont
Come join us at our 1st Annual Pig Roast on August 28th! Live music, BYOB, bon fire, Wagon rides, good time and more! Featuring the Eames Brother’s Band. Bring your family and friends. FOOD, FUN & FARMING
http://www.applecheekfarm.com/pigroast
Tickets are available at the Montpelier...
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Feed The Need Garden
What we do:
We teach those in need how to become more self-sufficient by learning how to grow and preserve their own food through hands on gardening, farming and canning classes. We establish raised bed gardens throughout the community to help give back to the soup kitchens and food...
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Tags: Community Garden Projects, Community Giving, Ending Hunger, Feed The Need Gardens, Florida, Gardening, Ocala, Self Sustainability
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OOOOh! Be still my beating heart. I’m in love. I’m in love. Today the family and I took a jaunt over to the big Southeastern Livestock Pavilion, 2232 N.E. Jacksonville Road, here in Ocala, Fl. to get a glimpse of the Southern Regional Paso Fino Horse show .
I was in awe at the rippling...
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You’re invited to FARM TO FOLK FEST, a benefit concert and artisanal food fair, on Sunday, August 22 at Union Pool featuring live music from local musicians and goods from local food vendors to help raise money for the GWCSA’s Low Income Fund.
Local and sustainably conscious bands Mia Riddle, Pearl and the Beard, and...
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Tags: Brooklyn, Farm to Folk Fest, NewYork
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