Join us for weekends at the farm, getting your hands dirty, co-learning with others, and re-connecting to nature!
August 20-22 ~ Primitive Skills
Reconnecting with the natural world can give us meaning and guidance in an increasingly sterile and destructive culture. Foraging, fire making and other survival skills may seem unnecessary in today’s modern society but even in an urban environment they can come in handy. Hands on activities include guided foraging walk, wilderness shelter construction, and fire making.
October 8-10 ~ Edible Forest Gardens
Imagine a forest that provides an abundance of food, fiber, fuel and pharmacy while requiring a minimum of human intervention. The system works together in a multi layered and resilient ecosystem. Learn how to create such a system in your own location. Hands on activities include creating a design, walnut harvest, and forest garden design.
November 5-7 ~ Alternative Energy
If we are to create a sustainable future our carbon footprint must be reduced. Energy conservation and stopping a global economy bent on infinite growth on a finite planet is the key but on the local level we can play a role by turning away from fossil fuels and toward energy from the sun. Transportation on foot or bike, fuel from waste veggie oil, homemade solar hot water collectors, and electricity from the sun, are all things you can do! Hands on activities include solar site surveying, touring working systems including pv power and waste veggie oil vehicle.
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A collaboration of Wild Meadows Farm and Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research
Society (CHEARS)