If interested in specific events, send your email & phone number to info@ecolearningcenter.org or call Jayne at (231) 620-4775.
Dates - TBA, will be seasonally appropriate to weather conditions.
Cost: No charge. Community ethics suggest a volunteer work exchange (No time to
volunteer? Donate Bay Bucks.)
April 25, 2009
Grafting Heirloom Fruit Trees - Bruce Holland Morritz, The Green Man
9-11AM at the Eco Learning Center
*Unheated greenhouse: dress for work and weather*
-Costs: Donation of volunteer work exchange or baybucks for rootstock - scion wood - instruction.
This will support the Eco Learning Center forest garden.
If you plan to attend the Earth Day parade, we'll work efficiently and make it to the lineup on time.
May 10th, 2009
Mushroom inoculation and Culture - Jim Moses & Curtis Cluckey
1-4 PM at the Forest Garden Organic Farm on Burdickville Rd., west of Maple City. A sharing of wisdom and plug/Maple log prep for growing Shitakes.
Call Jayne at 231-620-4775 to register.
No fee - our currency is exchange. There will be a sign-up sheet for volunteer work exchange.
May 17th, 2009
The Bee Garden
Planting a hedgerow for our winged ones.
10-12 AM Class/discussion.
1-3 PM Planting the Bee Garden.
Register: Call Jayne at 231-620-4775
Bee prepared: Wear weather-appropriate clothing, bring gloves, trowel, water bottle, sack lunch.
Recommended reading: Fruitless Fall - Rowan Jacobsen
June 14
Root Cellar Design - With advice from John Biernbaum, MSU Horticulture
This gathering calls on creative thinkersand builders for developing an on-site plan. Research the concept online, then unplug and join us for a design charette at the Eco Learning Center.
10AM Dress for working it out.
Reference reading: Root Cellaring by Mike and Nancy Bubel.
Call to register 231-620-4775
Lunch pot luck and music afterward with Holly and Cole
June 27
Herbs, Teas and Brews - Eco-Learning Center
Come together to identify herbs for seasoning, nutrition, as tea and enjoyment as brew. This event will sample teas from Light of Day Organics, a local biodynamic tea business by Angela Macke. Clay Coutourier - sustainable steward - will help us put to fermentation an herbal beer. Jyane will encourage the nettle tea brew for plant care. Carol Waters will educate us in herbal etiquette and the identification of plants that support our health and well being. Travis Childs will provide edible possibilities with herbs, both common and unusual.
June 27th - 10AM
Call to register: 231-620-4775
Feast to follow
Music with Holly and Cole
July
Build a Root Cellar - Eco-Learning Center
Place - How to choose land for homestead and alternative technology living
August
Beers & Brews - David Moehle & friends
Canning - Pam Schmidt
Seed Saving - Travis Childs, Eco-Learning Center
September
Putting Food By - Eco-Learning Center
Canning - Julie Nuce, Eco-Learning Center
October
Mushroom Hunt - Jim Moses, Bruce Holland Morritz & friends, at State Hospital Grounds
Fermentation - Healthful Food Preservation - Bernie Ware
November
Cider Making - Nikki Rothwell & Dan Young, Tandem Ciders
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