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Hot Buttered Rum is back! This is a fund raiser for SAA, and we’ll have a silent auction going on during the show.
Get your tickets now!
When: October 25th, 2024, 6 to 11:30 PM
Where: Little Lake Grange, 291 School Street in Willits
Price: $30 online and at local outlets; $35 at the door. Children under 12, $10.
Summer pruning is essential for maintaining orchard health and managing the growth of our trees. Join Tootreese (aka Richard Jeske) at the Butler Project Orchard on Ridgewood Ranch for a morning learning the principles of summer pruning, what we hope to accomplish with summer pruning, and how to do it.
FREE
When: Tuesday, August 13th, 9 to 11:30 AM
Where: Butler Orchard, 650 Maple Ln, Willits
Register below or call 707 510-7473 for directions and more information
Free to Farmers!
Small-scale, on-farm composting comes in all sorts of flavors, and Jes Pearce and Keith Michalak have tried out most of them. This workshop will give you a taste of the alternatives you can use for your own compost system.
When? Wednesday, July 17th, 10 AM to 12:30 PM
Where? Golden Rule Garden/Buttercup Compost Lab – 650 Maple Ln., Willits on Ridgewood Ranch
Free to Farmers
Join us to learn the principles of watershed and forest management that undergird the permaculture approach to living on the land. Wanosh Forest Gardens is a unique setting for putting this approach into action. Blair Phillips, who leads the workshop, has been working in permaculture design and forest management for well over a decade.
When? August 9th, 11 AM to 2:30 PM, with potluck lunch
Where? Wanosh Forest Gardens, Pine Mountain, Willits
Register now to hold a place
Free to farmers
Join us to learn about adaptive seed breeding, why it is important, how to do it, and what is being done in our area through the efforts of Going to Seed and others.
When? July 26th, 9 AM to 12 PM, with a potluck lunch to follow
Where? Xa Kako Dile at Fortunate Farm, Caspar
Register now to hold a spot
Explore regenerative practices in theory and on-the-ground implementation and learn more about the regenerative certifications on offer.
When: July 15th, 9 to 11 AM
Where: School of Adaptive Agriculture, 650 Maple Ln., Ridgewood Ranch
FREE to farmers and farm workers
Register now to hold a place
Explore the options for preparing our soil for planting and the reasons behind them with experienced farmers.
When: Monday July 1st, 1 PM to 2:30 PM
Where: School of Adaptive Agriculture, 650 Maple Ln., Ridgewood Ranch
Register now to hold a place
Free to local farmers and farm workers
Create the “culture of goodwill” that can make your farm both more efficient and a good place to work, for you and your fellow workers. This workshop explores the leadership, communications and conflict resolution skills we need to build a working farm or workplace team.
Instructors: AJ Barrett, Lila Ryan, Caroline Radice
Two sessions will be offered to give both inland and coastal folks a chance to participate: Lunch provided.
April 8th, at Ridgewood Ranch (School of Adaptive Agriculture)
April 15th, at Xa Kako Dile (at Fortunate Farm)
Price: Free
Home Butchering Basics
with Tia Lawrence
Learn the essentials of home butchering, from pork primals to sausage making, in this hands-on workshop. Tia will guide you in the tools and techniques of cutting the finest meat, producing sausage and bacon, and saving and processing the lard. She’ll help you devise your own sausage recipes, marinated cuts, and more.
The workshop takes place over a weekend in Tia’s home butcher shop. Each participant will be able to take home a third of the processed pork, including chops, roasts and other cuts, as well as sausage and uncured bacon made in the course of the workshop. Limited to three participants.
Learn how to make life easier by working smarter, reducing waste and effort. This practical workshop will include: reducing your electric bill, staying cool and warm, using solar energy, outdoor tools, efficient cooking and dishwashing, conserving water, and reducing your carbon footprint and pollution.
Instructor: Takashi Yogi
Date and Time: Saturday, June 17, 10 AM to noon
Location: School of Adaptive Agriculture campus, Ridgewood Ranch
Learn how to turn a problem of overgrown forests into a solution of propagating mushrooms. Students will get an overview of approach to forest stewardship and hands on experience harvesting materials to propagate shitake mushrooms outdoors.
A two-day workshop including lodging and all organic meals. Students will go home with their own inoculated log to fruit at home.
Saturday and Sunday, March 18th and 19th | 10 AM – 4 PM (Rain dates: March 25th – 26th)
Instructors: Blair Phillips and Levon Durr
Location: Abuela Gardens, Willits
Learn the art and science of herbal medicine making! This comprehensive hands-on course will cover all the basics of handcrafted herbalism. Students will go home with the skill and confidence necessary to make their own herbal products for the home or small business.
Sundays | February 12, 19, and 26 | 11 AM to 3 PM
Instructor: Vani Mayshark
Location: School of Adaptive Agriculture
All materials provided by instructor.
Let’s dive into my favorite easy tricks & recipes for staying healthy through the holiday season!
Friday | December 16th | 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Instructor: Tara Bluecloud
This is a virtual workshop: you will be sent a Zoom link upon registration
Learn how to turn fiber into handspun yarn!
Using the handspindle or the spinning wheel, we’ll show you how to start spinning your own yarn. We will learn about fiber preparation and give an overview of different types of tools used for making your own yarn.
We will explore techniques for spinning and plying as well as preparing your handspun yarn for use. Spinning fiber will be provided.
Saturday | January 14 | 1 PM to 4PM
Instructors: Sarah Gilbert and Kathryn Rossum
Location: Mendocino Wool and Fiber Inc. 676 S. Orchard Ave, Ukiah CA
Everyday, in our food and drink, we can include tonic, nutritive and adaptogenic herbs that can help us to stay well. We will discuss these herbs, do some hands-on preparations, as well as some taste-tests.
The class will also include a discussion of bioregional herbalism, and how to choose which plants to include in your garden.
Saturday | February 4, 2023 | 10 AM to 12:30 PM
Instructor: Donna d’Terra
Location: School of Adaptive Agriculture
Monday | August 22 | 2:45 – 4:00 PM
Instructor: Donald Pivec
Location: School of Adaptive Agriculture “schoolhouse,” Ridgewood Ranch
In this class Donald Pivec draws on his own experience to discuss how to start farming on a shoestring budget. The class will cover land and tool access, drawing on social capital, creating a scalable vision, and sources of income.
