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Butter, Yogurt & Cheese Making Classes!
Next Class: Sunday, August 13th from 1:00 - 4:30 pm
$50 per person
Description:
(limit to 11 people)
Have fun in the kitchen with Farm Fresh Raw Milk!
Learn a few different ways to make yogurt - successfully and consistently.Get introduced to a couple different soft cheeses that are easy and fun to make.Learn the tricks for making delicious butter and using butter molds.
Learn in an intimate setting with a small group; get ready to laugh and taste some delicious creations.
Class will include a handout. Cheese cultures, yogurt cultures, citric acid, butter muslin cloth and organic grass-fed raw milk will be for sale, so you can start creating delicious treats for friends and family right away.
To learn more or to register, go HERE
Interested in scheduling a Private Class? Contact Lisa
Connecting to the Land and Self Through
Biodynamics, Dowsing, Reiki, and Shamanism
Dowsing Definition: The search for information by means of a hand-held instrument and faculties beyond the 5 physical senses.
Throughout the calendar year, we offer classes and private sessions that open portals into unseen worlds for the participant(s) to experience and explore. Our farm is a perfect medium for people to learn more about their own personal journey. The land is alive with nurturing, healing energy, ready to embrace and support you.
Classes include:
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Dowsing for Spiritual Growth: Connecting with the Natural World Next Class TBD This introductory class Offers hands-on and theoretical learning about dowsing, with exercises in using your dowsing tools and opening yourself up to receive information and healing from your land, animals and plants (3.0 hours). To learn more, go HERE
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Dowsing & Agriculture: Spiritual Gardening through Dowsing - Next Class TBD. This introductory class Offers hands-on and theoretical learning about dowsing with exercises in using your dowsing tools as you plan and lay out your edible and ornamental gardens; learning to work co-creatively with Mother Nature. (3.0 hours)
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Intermediate Dowsing Class: finding water, accuracy in dowsing and more. - Next Class TBD. This full day class, taught by Steve Herbert, will take you deeper into the world of dowsing, where participants will work on dowsing accuracy, finding potable water (for your personal well), will introduce participants to Geomancy, Dowsing and Agriculture, map dowsing, and more. Beginner Dowsing Review will be from 9:30 - 10:30 am for a additional fee. (6 hours. BYO lunch)
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Spiritual Gardening using Dowsing, Shamanic, & Biodynamic Practices. Next Class TBD This full day class is open to beginner and intermediate students. If you have taken any of our introductory classes, you will be ready to dive into a more detailed look at how we can use our dowsing as well as apply Biodynamic and Shamanic practices to your land management. (6 hours; BYO lunch)
Private Sessions: By appointment. Contact Lisa to set up a time
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Power Animal Retrievals (Done Remotely) - $75 -
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Dowsing Basics - for spiritual or for land care/communication (including how to find potable water). This can be done in person or remotely
Livestock Classes!!
These classes are sponsored in part by Eco-Sheild & Agri-Dynamics
Management Intensive Grazing for the Diversified Farm
Next Class Date: Next Class TBD. Private Classes Encouraged
We also offer private Classes at our farm or yours. Contact Us for more info.
Interested in improving your grazing skills or new to Management Intensive Grazing? This class will employ the teachings of Holistic Management along with the techniques of Management Intensive Grazing (MIG) to assist you in improving pasture productivity and raising healthy livestock. To learn more, go HERE
Having A Family Cow
Next Class Date: Next Class TBD. Private Classed Encouraged
We also offer private Classes at our farm or yours. Contact Us for more info.
This class is designed to help you navigate the new and exciting world of owning and caring for a family cow & calf. Topics to discuss will include: * Animal Health * Grazing Management * Calf Care * Animal Nutrition * Breeds and Breeding * Housing and Husbandry * Marketing your milk: raw milk regulations in VT. To learn more, contact us or go HERE
Interested in a private class? Contact Us and we'll set one up with you!
EXPERIENCES at Earthwise Farm & Forest
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Description: Walk the beautiful permaculture landscape of Earthwise Farm & Forest with one of the farmer owners as your guide. Hear the story about how this farm came to be and where it is heading. Learn more about regenerative and organic farming practices and how that is unfolding on this ever-evolving, multi-generational Homestead Farm.
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Visit our livestock (pigs, chickens, turkeys, calves, cows, oxen, draft horses).
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Visit our vegetable, herb, and flower gardens.
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Walk our Labyrinth/Flower Garden and harvest your own flower bouquet
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Get a tour of our off-grid home and learn about the many conservation practices employed: Solar Power, composting toilets, gravity fed water, passive water heating systems for summer and winter, Root cellar and more.
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Finish the tour at our Farm Store where we have produce, preserves, meat, milk and pottery for sale.
1 Hour Tour: $60 (Group size: 1 - 20 people)
2.5 Hour Tour: $125
Experience Hand-Milking a Cow!
Description: Interested in hand milking a cow? Curious to find out what daily feeding and milking looks like on our Homestead Farm? Join us for a morning or afternoon of setting up pasture (their daily feed ration), and milking a cow by hand. Visitors get an opportunity to hand milk a cow, groom & pet the cow & calf, and bottle-feed a calf! Great conversations are sure to abound during this special event.
Estimated Time & Cost: 60-90 memorable minutes. $50-$75 sliding scale.
Contact Us to set up an appointment.