Satoyama Homestead, a nonprofit micro-farm, edible landscape and outdoor classroom in Warwick Township, is excited to announce our 2015-16 Satoyama Presents! Events free monthly workshop series.
The first workshop will be held on Saturday, Oct. 10 (rain date Oct. 11). The Edible Landscape PermaculTour will teach visitors about permaculture gardening principles and how they apply to landscaping with edible perennials and habitat plants. Visitors will tour Satoyama Homestead to see examples in the landscape, and have the opportunity to sample some wild and perennial edible plants.
Additional 2015-16 season workshops will feature rain barrel assembly and installation, a garden tool show-and-tell, biointensive vegetable garden planning, horticultural therapy, vegetable seed starting, transplanting vegetable seedlings, beekeeping, no-mow lawn conversion, composting, backyard chickens, garden-to-table menu planning, seed saving, emergency kit assembly and an introduction to amateur (ham) radio. Workshops are presented free of charge, and in-kind and voluntary donations are gratefully accepted.
Every public Satoyama Presents! Events workshop will feature Trivial-For-Fruit, a raffle drawing for a special gift from the homestead. Participants earn raffle tickets by correctly answering trivia questions about content presented during the event.
In addition to the workshop series, Satoyama Homestead supports residential-scale agriculture and horticulture by publishing research-based content on our multimedia platform, spreadcasts.tumblr.com, and by presenting the Original Transplants podcast, available to stream and download for free via SoundCloud.com. Recent posts to the Spreadcasts platform include bees foraging for pollen in the fall bloom, highlights from the bird and pollinator habitat gardens, creating a sourdough starter from harvested wild yeast, a review of firewood stacking methods and how to cure and store garlic for eating or fall planting. The Original Transplants podcast provides homestead updates on the topics of beekeeping, backyard chickens and edible landscaping, and reviews and news about agriculture and the environment.
Workshop space is limited and we encourage visitors to register in advance. The full Satoyama Presents! Events series description, links to register, accepted in-kind donation items and more information can be found at www.satoyamahs.org.
