Events Calendar

Come visit our lambs and our flock of about 50 registered Icelandic Sheep. Have you entertained the idea of raising a small flock of sheep to mow your open land and provide you with healthy winter food? Or are you wondering what makes grass-fed meat healthier for the land and for you? Helen Whybrow and Peter Forbes of Knoll Farm will explain the benefits of eating and raising grass-fed meat, demonstrate their own methods of raising lambs for market and also talk about the heritage breed of Icelandic sheep and how to raise your own without a barn.

Register to attend here.

Join Nova Kim and Les Hook for an informative wild edibles walk around Knoll Farm beginning at 4:30. After the walk, Chef David Hoene of Pauline's Restaurant in Burlington will demonstrate how to safely and deliciously prepare wild edibles. A tasting and further discussion will follow. Nova and Les have over 80 years combined experience hunting the woods and fields of Vermont for wild foods and medicines. Rain or Shine.

Learn more about Nova and Les here.

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We will begin the morning with an open house and tour of the farm. This is a great time to bring little ones to see the lambs and other animals. Beginning at 10 am we will divide into work teams to take one any of the spring projects that need many hands around the farm: raising our new yurt, preparing new garden beds, cleaning out the pasture spring, and clearing and burning brush are some of the projects we'll need help with this spring in order to get the farm ready for the summer season. We hope you'll come join us! Lunch is provided.

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We have a very special community work weekend planned for this summer. We will be spending the weekend with Bennett Konesni, who has traveled the world studying work songs. This will be a great opportunity to Knoll Farm to spend the weekend with friends new and old (Lobo, the llama, will be in attendance), be on the land, learn traditional work songs from many cultures, and help out with a fun spring project - which, weather permitting, will be painting Knoll Farm's iconic red barn.

We will explore different systems of work song leadership, elements of a good work song, stylistic differences in global musical labor, and songwriting all while helping Knoll Farm and Center for Whole Communities get ready for their summer season. The goals of the workshop are to get people working and singing, to teach how to lead and how to follow, to examine the connections between body movement, sound and productivity, and to start writing your own work song.

This workshop is free and open to the public. Meals and tents will be provided.

Please register here

Knoll Farm has about 1/2 acre of highbush blueberries. This workshop will cover all the basics of growing your own organic blueberries successfully. We'll talk about soils, when and how to plant, varieties, pruning, fertilizing and diseases. You'll have the chance to pick your own berries after the workshop.

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Harvest and Courage is our annual, public celebration of the harvest, the land, our community, and our common courage. We'll have music, cider pressing, breadbaking, a film screening, harvest lunch and guest speakers and performers.

Learn the secrets to growing great garlic with Helen Whybrow.

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with Peter Forbes, Enrique Salmon, and Stephanie Kaza. Please visit our retreat page for more information on our Whole Thinking Retreats.

with Toby Herzlich, Carolyn Finney, Kavitha Rao and Larry Yang. Please visit our retreat page for more information on our Whole Thinking Retreats.

with Scott Russell Sanders, Deborah Schoenbaum and Wendy Johnson. Please visit our retreat page for more information on our Whole Thinking Retreats.

with Helen Whybrow, Marge Bruchac and Cynthia Jurs.

This retreat is specially desinged for teachers, administrators, environmental educators, conservation leaders, community members and others from the Upper Valley Conneticut River Valley sponsored by the Upper Valley Region of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

This week-long retreat has the dual objectives of building a strong and vital network of Upper Valley environmental educators, and reinvigorating their commitment to using the environment as an integrating context for learning in our communities.

with Peter Forbes, Roberto Chene and Anushka Fernandopulle

Thanks to sponsorship from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, we are able to bring together individuals from around the country to attend this groundbreaking program, which will convene a diverse group of leaders working within the food system to address such questions as:

How can we create a food system that nurtures land and people in this country? What is the role of food in creating a more just and healthy society? What current initiatives and approaches are successfully reaching those who do not benefit from the dominant food system, while nurturing the land that produces the food? What roles do race, class, power and privilege play in the American food system?

with Matt Kolan, Tom Wessels, Sayra Pinto-Wilson, and Kaylynn TwoTrees. Please visit our retreat page for more information on our Whole Thinking Retreats.

with Peter Forbes, Santikaro and Mistinguette Smith

With the support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the William Penn Foundation, Center for Whole Communities will convene a diverse group of leaders from New Jersey and Pennsylvania’s land preservation and food sectors to grapple with provocative questions about the future. The retreat will be a critical opportunity and moment in time for land conservationists, urban and rural growers, food system advocates, public health officials, elected officials and the philanthropic community to come together to consider how New Jersey and Pennsylvania’s landscapes can be protected and enhanced over the next twenty years.

with Steve Glazer, Melissa Nelson, and Santikaro. Please visit our retreat page for more information on our Whole Thinking Retreats.