From the presenters: Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and to share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.

We will make hand brooms (non wood handle brooms) both 'turkey wing' and 'round' broom designs. Each broom maker will also make a scrub brush for dishes - or for testing if brownies are done!

COST: sliding scale of $60-85, with a nonrefundable $20 deposit ahead of time here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. Please bring cash or check for the remainder that day.

All materials are included: Broom Corn, Waxed Thread wound around piece of wood, Scissors, Pliers, Loppers.

Limited to 14 participants.

Structure of the class:

• Meet and Greet (Introductions, flow of the day)

• Introduce the materials (broom corn, thread, tools)

• Bryan demonstrates the round brush broom and pan scrubber

• Participants make round brush broom

• Bryan demonstrates the 'turkey wing' broom

• Participants make the turkey wing broom

• Showcase our makings and closing

Presenters:
Bryan is a community member of the Piscataqua Watershed who revels in the tidal rhythms. Bryan feels summoned to the curious connections with place and community. Pruning old apple trees, maple sugaring, scything hay, or sitting with a neighbor to greet the fireflies. Bryan believes hand work and utilitarian crafts are a gateway to our belonging and intimacies with place and story.
Yulia is a member of Seacoast Permaculture board and an avid environmentalist and maker of things from natural found or repurposed materials.

Register at https://www.meetup.com/seacoast-nh-permaculture/events/299039965/

Listening Session with Seacoast Area growers:

 As you may know, the NH Food Alliance is a statewide network that connects the people, business, organizations, and communities dedicated to growing a thriving, fair, and sustainable local food system in the Granite State. (You can learn more and get involved at nhfoodalliance.org). This year, they are spearheading the development of a NH Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan, with support from the NH Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food, and need your input and participation to create a plan that is both comprehensive and impactful.   

 A strategic plan for New Hampshire will align our food community, streamlining collective efforts to obtain funding, pass policies, develop programs, invest in infrastructure, and build networks in support of a thriving, fair, and sustainable local food system in the Granite State. You can read about the proposed process for developing the plan in advance of the session. There will be a very brief overview of the plan, but the goal is to spend the vast majority of the time on the 18th hearing from growers. The NH Food Alliance team has heard about or been involved in many conversations involving challenges and concerns of Seacoast area growers, and hope this can be an opportunity to both further those conversations and incorporate some identified needs into the NH Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan.

During this session, the NH Food Alliance wants to hear:

…about your aspirations. What do you want to do? What can help you get there?

…about your challenges. What are some barriers that you’re facing?

…what organizations and/or programs are helpful to you?

…what would help you go from surviving to thriving?

Please let us know you’re coming by RSVPing here, so we have enough food and seating.  

Organizer: Nicole Cardwell, Program Director, NH Food Alliance

Join in reconnecting with the landscape to restore and recommit relationships to place. Bryan Cassidy, who has a long relationship with the fruit trees at Tuckaway, will support participants through actively engaging in assessing and pruning blueberry bushes. Bryan believes that pruning fruit trees benefits the ecosystem (wildlife and human) through shelter, fruit, and health but maybe more importantly our interdependence of belonging and supporting the abundant gifts that come from a little attention close at hand and foot.

Where: 36 Captain Smith Emerson Rd, Lee, NH. Road is directly across rt. 155 from DeMerrit Hill Farm apple orchard, then drive 1/4 mile up gravel driveway (don’t take forks under power line) and you’ll come out at parking near the blueberries and 2 outbuildings (before you get all the way up to house).

What to bring: Wardrobe for the weather, water/snacks, and any tools available to you (loppers, pruning saw, gloves)

Cost: These workshops will be by donation to welcome all who are interested, without a fee for entrance. Any donation is gratefully accepted by cash or check without any expectation by Bryan.

Please RSVP to bryancassidy77@gmail.com or with any further questions!

NH Queer Farmers Network presents a workshop on On-Farm Communication, led by our friends from Stout Oak Farm, who recognize that how we communicate with each other on the farm can be as important as how we grow lettuce, and is something we can be intentional about and improve upon every year. If, as Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka suggests, "The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings," then we need to attend to who and how we are as human beings, together.

This workshop is open to farm owners, managers, and farm workers to discuss best practices and processes for being intentional about and improving on-farm communication, as part of creating healthy and supportive workplaces for all. There will be separate breakout spaces for owners/managers and employees. We would especially like to invite allies who are committed to cultivating affirming workplaces.

The workshop will go about 2 hours, to be followed by a potluck - bring your favorite dish to share!

Space is limited so please register in advance, and share this invitation with all who you think would appreciate or benefit from this workshop.

Seacoast growers and interested community members! This is a roundtable listening session, a great opportunity to give input and impact funding priorities within the local Conservation District on your top environmental concerns.

RSVP by email to alena@straffordccd.org

It's Seed Season!

Learn how to properly inventory, pack and distribute seeds for spring planting. Help restock our community seed bank.

It's time to get our seeds ready for spring planting! On Saturday February 17, we are holding a seed packing workshop at the Emerson House.

Come by and learn how to properly inventory, weigh and pack seeds for distribution, using seed that was saved and donated last year, and help us prepare for the 2024 planting season. We'll restock our seed kits and send you home with some seed packs for your own garden!

We so appreciate volunteers like YOU whose time and talents make the PSP Seed Bank possible!

Free Admission

Sign up here

Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and to share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.

We will make hand brooms (non wood handle brooms) both 'turkey wing' and 'round' broom designs. Each broom maker will also make a scrub brush for dishes - or for testing if brownies are done!

COST: sliding scale of $60-85, with a nonrefundable $20 deposit ahead of time here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. Please bring cash or check for the remainder that day.

All materials are included: Broom Corn, Waxed Thread wound around piece of wood, Scissors, Pliers, Loppers.

Limited to 14 participants.

Structure of the class:

• Meet and Greet (Introductions, flow of the day)

• Introduce the materials (broom corn, thread, tools)

• Bryan demonstrates the round brush broom and pan scrubber

• Participants make round brush broom

• Bryan demonstrates the 'turkey wing' broom

• Participants make the turkey wing broom

• Showcase our makings and closing

The Venue: Emerson House at Tuckaway Farm is a new indoor/outdoor community space on a working farm available for mission-related activities. Their goal is to both share and support this space as a resource for healthy agriculture and community. There is indoor and outdoor space which could adapted depending on the weather and class needs.

Presenters:
Bryan is a community member of the Piscataqua Watershed who revels in the tidal rhythms. Bryan feels summoned to the curious connections with place and community. Pruning old apple trees, maple sugaring, scything hay, or sitting with a neighbor to greet the fireflies. Bryan believes hand work and utilitarian crafts are a gateway to our belonging and intimacies with place and story.
Yulia is a member of Seacoast Permaculture board and an avid environmentalist and maker of things from natural found or repurposed materials.

Sign up here

It's Seed Season!

Learn how to clean, sort and prepare seeds for planting while helping to restock our community seed bank.

It's time to get our seeds ready for spring planting! On Sunday January 28, we are holding a seed prepping workshop at the Emerson House.

Come by and learn how to clean, weigh and tally seed, using seed that was saved and donated last year, and help us prepare for the 2024 planting season. We'll demonstrate cleaning techniques, share storage tips and pack up seeds for distribution. Take home some packs for your own garden!

Did you save seeds last season? Bring your extra saved seeds to add to the seed bank.

We so appreciate volunteers like YOU who's time and talents make the PSP Seed Bank possible!

Sign up Here

The Farmers Dinner is excited to announce our upcoming event at the stunning Tuckaway Farm in Lee, New Hampshire. This idyllic farm is known for its commitment to sustainable agriculture, and we're thrilled to be partnering with the Cox family to bring you an evening of culinary excellence in the heart of their fields.

At Tuckaway Farm, they grow a variety of delicious produce, including flint corn, which will be featured in our multi-course menu. Our team of talented chefs will be creating a mouthwatering meal that showcases the very best of what Tuckaway Farm has to offer. From fresh, in-season produce picked just feet away, to the stunning natural beauty of the farm, you'll be treated to an unforgettable dining experience.

Don't miss out on the chance to enjoy a truly unique meal in the fields of Tuckaway Farm. Tickets are on sale now, but they won't last long. Get yours today and get ready to feast at one of New England's most beautiful farms!

Buy Tickets Here — Sold out

There is a pharmacopeia of support available to us in the plants that grow in the fields, wild places and even in your own yard. Learning to identify, harvest and prepare these plants - with appreciation and reverence - creates a meaningful relationship not only with the plants, but the whole ecosystem in which we live. When we bring more plants into our kitchens, as food or supportive remedies, life just gets better!

We used to have such a strong connection with the plants, flowers and trees that grow all around us and knew how to use them to support our health. While much of that knowledge has been lost over the last 100 years or so, it’s not too late to reconnect with the wisdom of our ancestors and the land on which we live.

The workshops are led by Alison Magill, herbalist, ecologist, gardener, seed-saver and dedicated plant-lover. Join one or all of the 6 workshops offered this summer as part of the Wild and Weedy Wellness series. The 6 workshops are designed so that by the end of the season, you will have created a home herbal pantry to support you all year long!

Workshop Format:

Each workshop starts with a plant walk through the property of Tuckaway Farm in Lee NH. Over the course of the season, we will visit the different places where wild weeds are ready to harvest. Then we’ll return to the Emerson House kitchen to prepare what we’ve gathered. Each workshop will teach a different preparation method such as herb drying and storage, using beneficial plants as food or making different extracts or oils. Participants will take home a preparation each session. All supplies and materials are included in the cost of the workshop.

PLANT WALK ONLY OPTION is available for those who are not interested in making the herbal preparations.

Workshop Participation:

The workshop cost is $45 single or $65 couple or family. Family tickets only include 1 preparation. If you wish to double your take-home, please register as 2 adults. I recommend that children be ages 6 or entering 1st grade in order to participate. Contact me if you have any questions about your child participating at: thewellcultivatedlife@gmail.com

Plant walk only tickets are $20 single and $35 family.

Plants:

The exact plants we’ll be collecting each month are not guaranteed! Why? Because although we know the general seasonality of the wild plants, every year’s growing season - rain and temperature - is different and plants may not be ready to harvest on a specific date.

Here are a few of the plants we will be looking for each month:

MAY: Nettle, violet, chickweed, dandelion, pine, cleavers

JUNE: Yarrow, plantain, self-heal, St Johns wort, elder flower, horsetail

JULY: Comfrey, clover, mullein, raspberry

AUGUST: Bee balm, goldenrod, jewelweed, black cherry

SEPTEMBER: Aster, elder berries, goldenrod, mushrooms

OCTOBER: Root harvesting! Burdock, yellow dock, dandelion, Japanese knotweed.

Preparations:

To create a usable home apothecary, home herbalists follow the seasons to harvest plants when they are at their peak readiness. Each plant favors a different type of preparations: some are best dried and made into tea. Others have properties that are best extracted in oils or vinegars. Each session features one of these important plant preparation techniques so you will have the skills to continue harvesting throughout the season.

What botanical pigments could you coax from your local hedges and fields? Would that weedy patch over there make a dye you could color yarn or your socks with?!

Overlooked plants and maligned weeds make GORGEOUS local color. Learning the magic of dye plants that surround us, is a radical reclaiming of nearly forgotten wisdom and a reconnection to our Color of Place.

The morning will be spent identifying and foraging often overlooked or maligned plants for color, while enjoying the fields and hedges of the beautiful Tuckaway Farm.

Then, let the making begin! We'll extract color and learn the process of dye and ink making.

There will be time to play and experiment. Everyone will go home with dye and an ink, AND the knowledge to make more on their own!

Extracting botanical dye is a foundational skill. It's a magical, but explainable, alchemy. Once you have these basics, the plants you choose, the palette you create, and what mediums you make is all up to you.

Register Here

Learn More about Lauren Winterholer's Farm + Forage Pigment Project

What botanical pigments could you coax from your local hedges and fields? Would that weedy patch over there make a dye you could color yarn or your socks with?!

Overlooked plants and maligned weeds make GORGEOUS local color. Learning the magic of dye plants that surround us, is a radical reclaiming of nearly forgotten wisdom and a reconnection to our Color of Place.

The morning will be spent identifying and foraging often overlooked or maligned plants for color, while enjoying the fields and hedges of the beautiful Tuckaway Farm.

Then, let the making begin! We'll extract color and learn the process of dye and ink making.

There will be time to play and experiment. Everyone will go home with dye and an ink, AND the knowledge to make more on their own!

Extracting botanical dye is a foundational skill. It's a magical, but explainable, alchemy. Once you have these basics, the plants you choose, the palette you create, and what mediums you make is all up to you.

Register Here

Learn More about Lauren Winterholer's Farm + Forage Pigment Project

There is a pharmacopeia of support available to us in the plants that grow in the fields, wild places and even in your own yard. Learning to identify, harvest and prepare these plants - with appreciation and reverence - creates a meaningful relationship not only with the plants, but the whole ecosystem in which we live. When we bring more plants into our kitchens, as food or supportive remedies, life just gets better!

We used to have such a strong connection with the plants, flowers and trees that grow all around us and knew how to use them to support our health. While much of that knowledge has been lost over the last 100 years or so, it’s not too late to reconnect with the wisdom of our ancestors and the land on which we live.

The workshops are led by Alison Magill, herbalist, ecologist, gardener, seed-saver and dedicated plant-lover. Join one or all of the 6 workshops offered this summer as part of the Wild and Weedy Wellness series. The 6 workshops are designed so that by the end of the season, you will have created a home herbal pantry to support you all year long!

Workshop Format:

Each workshop starts with a plant walk through the property of Tuckaway Farm in Lee NH. Over the course of the season, we will visit the different places where wild weeds are ready to harvest. Then we’ll return to the Emerson House kitchen to prepare what we’ve gathered. Each workshop will teach a different preparation method such as herb drying and storage, using beneficial plants as food or making different extracts or oils. Participants will take home a preparation each session. All supplies and materials are included in the cost of the workshop.

PLANT WALK ONLY OPTION is available for those who are not interested in making the herbal preparations.

Workshop Participation:

The workshop cost is $45 single or $65 couple or family. Family tickets only include 1 preparation. If you wish to double your take-home, please register as 2 adults. I recommend that children be ages 6 or entering 1st grade in order to participate. Contact me if you have any questions about your child participating at: thewellcultivatedlife@gmail.com

Plant walk only tickets are $20 single and $35 family.

Plants:

The exact plants we’ll be collecting each month are not guaranteed! Why? Because although we know the general seasonality of the wild plants, every year’s growing season - rain and temperature - is different and plants may not be ready to harvest on a specific date.

Here are a few of the plants we will be looking for each month:

MAY: Nettle, violet, chickweed, dandelion, pine, cleavers

JUNE: Yarrow, plantain, self-heal, St Johns wort, elder flower, horsetail

JULY: Comfrey, clover, mullein, raspberry

AUGUST: Bee balm, goldenrod, jewelweed, black cherry

SEPTEMBER: Aster, elder berries, goldenrod, mushrooms

OCTOBER: Root harvesting! Burdock, yellow dock, dandelion, Japanese knotweed.

Preparations:

To create a usable home apothecary, home herbalists follow the seasons to harvest plants when they are at their peak readiness. Each plant favors a different type of preparations: some are best dried and made into tea. Others have properties that are best extracted in oils or vinegars. Each session features one of these important plant preparation techniques so you will have the skills to continue harvesting throughout the season.

What botanical pigments could you coax from your local hedges and fields? Would that weedy patch over there make a dye you could color yarn or your socks with?!

Overlooked plants and maligned weeds make GORGEOUS local color. Learning the magic of dye plants that surround us, is a radical reclaiming of nearly forgotten wisdom and a reconnection to our Color of Place.

The morning will be spent identifying and foraging often overlooked or maligned plants for color, while enjoying the fields and hedges of the beautiful Tuckaway Farm.

Then, let the making begin! We'll extract color and learn the process of dye and ink making.

There will be time to play and experiment. Everyone will go home with dye and an ink, AND the knowledge to make more on their own!

Extracting botanical dye is a foundational skill. It's a magical, but explainable, alchemy. Once you have these basics, the plants you choose, the palette you create, and what mediums you make is all up to you.

Register Here

Learn More about Lauren Winterholer's Farm + Forage Pigment Project

$65.00

Join Jenna Rozelle for a walk through the fields and forests of our farm—it’s a beautiful time of year to see the best of what wild and feral foods this place and this season have to offer and enjoy a foraged meal together at the end.

August 31, 5–8PM

If you’ve purchased a gift certificate and would like to redeem it, email Jenna directly at JennaLRozelle@gmail.com

Purchase Tickets

$35.00

Jenna Rozelle offers a simplified version of her wild food walks with no meal at the end and more time to spend with the plants. This makes it easier for her and more affordable for you. She will be holding these regularly throughout the spring, summer and fall at different farms across Maine and New Hampshire. This one will be here at Tuckaway Farm in Lee, NH — please register below.

August 30 from 5–7:30 PM.

4 free scholarship spots available

Purchase Tickets

There is a pharmacopeia of support available to us in the plants that grow in the fields, wild places and even in your own yard. Learning to identify, harvest and prepare these plants - with appreciation and reverence - creates a meaningful relationship not only with the plants, but the whole ecosystem in which we live. When we bring more plants into our kitchens, as food or supportive remedies, life just gets better!

We used to have such a strong connection with the plants, flowers and trees that grow all around us and knew how to use them to support our health. While much of that knowledge has been lost over the last 100 years or so, it’s not too late to reconnect with the wisdom of our ancestors and the land on which we live.

The workshops are led by Alison Magill, herbalist, ecologist, gardener, seed-saver and dedicated plant-lover. Join one or all of the 6 workshops offered this summer as part of the Wild and Weedy Wellness series. The 6 workshops are designed so that by the end of the season, you will have created a home herbal pantry to support you all year long!

Workshop Format:

Each workshop starts with a plant walk through the property of Tuckaway Farm in Lee NH. Over the course of the season, we will visit the different places where wild weeds are ready to harvest. Then we’ll return to the Emerson House kitchen to prepare what we’ve gathered. Each workshop will teach a different preparation method such as herb drying and storage, using beneficial plants as food or making different extracts or oils. Participants will take home a preparation each session. All supplies and materials are included in the cost of the workshop.

PLANT WALK ONLY OPTION is available for those who are not interested in making the herbal preparations.

Workshop Participation:

The workshop cost is $45 single or $65 couple or family. Family tickets only include 1 preparation. If you wish to double your take-home, please register as 2 adults. I recommend that children be ages 6 or entering 1st grade in order to participate. Contact me if you have any questions about your child participating at: thewellcultivatedlife@gmail.com

Plant walk only tickets are $20 single and $35 family.

Plants:

The exact plants we’ll be collecting each month are not guaranteed! Why? Because although we know the general seasonality of the wild plants, every year’s growing season - rain and temperature - is different and plants may not be ready to harvest on a specific date.

Here are a few of the plants we will be looking for each month:

MAY: Nettle, violet, chickweed, dandelion, pine, cleavers

JUNE: Yarrow, plantain, self-heal, St Johns wort, elder flower, horsetail

JULY: Comfrey, clover, mullein, raspberry

AUGUST: Bee balm, goldenrod, jewelweed, black cherry

SEPTEMBER: Aster, elder berries, goldenrod, mushrooms

OCTOBER: Root harvesting! Burdock, yellow dock, dandelion, Japanese knotweed.

Preparations:

To create a usable home apothecary, home herbalists follow the seasons to harvest plants when they are at their peak readiness. Each plant favors a different type of preparations: some are best dried and made into tea. Others have properties that are best extracted in oils or vinegars. Each session features one of these important plant preparation techniques so you will have the skills to continue harvesting throughout the season.

There is a pharmacopeia of support available to us in the plants that grow in the fields, wild places and even in your own yard. Learning to identify, harvest and prepare these plants - with appreciation and reverence - creates a meaningful relationship not only with the plants, but the whole ecosystem in which we live. When we bring more plants into our kitchens, as food or supportive remedies, life just gets better!

We used to have such a strong connection with the plants, flowers and trees that grow all around us and knew how to use them to support our health. While much of that knowledge has been lost over the last 100 years or so, it’s not too late to reconnect with the wisdom of our ancestors and the land on which we live.

The workshops are led by Alison Magill, herbalist, ecologist, gardener, seed-saver and dedicated plant-lover. Join one or all of the 6 workshops offered this summer as part of the Wild and Weedy Wellness series. The 6 workshops are designed so that by the end of the season, you will have created a home herbal pantry to support you all year long!

Workshop Format:

Each workshop starts with a plant walk through the property of Tuckaway Farm in Lee NH. Over the course of the season, we will visit the different places where wild weeds are ready to harvest. Then we’ll return to the Emerson House kitchen to prepare what we’ve gathered. Each workshop will teach a different preparation method such as herb drying and storage, using beneficial plants as food or making different extracts or oils. Participants will take home a preparation each session. All supplies and materials are included in the cost of the workshop.

PLANT WALK ONLY OPTION is available for those who are not interested in making the herbal preparations.

Workshop Participation:

The workshop cost is $45 single or $65 couple or family. Family tickets only include 1 preparation. If you wish to double your take-home, please register as 2 adults. It is recommended that children be ages 6 or entering 1st grade in order to participate. Contact Alison if you have any questions about your child participating at: thewellcultivatedlife@gmail.com

Plant walk only tickets are $20 single and $35 family.

Plants:

The exact plants we’ll be collecting each month are not guaranteed! Why? Because although we know the general seasonality of the wild plants, every year’s growing season - rain and temperature - is different and plants may not be ready to harvest on a specific date.

Here are a few of the plants we will be looking for each month:

MAY: Nettle, violet, chickweed, dandelion, pine, cleavers

JUNE: Yarrow, plantain, self-heal, St Johns wort, elder flower, horsetail

JULY: Comfrey, clover, mullein, raspberry

AUGUST: Bee balm, goldenrod, jewelweed, black cherry

SEPTEMBER: Aster, elder berries, goldenrod, mushrooms

OCTOBER: Root harvesting! Burdock, yellow dock, dandelion, Japanese knotweed.

Preparations:

To create a usable home apothecary, home herbalists follow the seasons to harvest plants when they are at their peak readiness. Each plant favors a different type of preparations: some are best dried and made into tea. Others have properties that are best extracted in oils or vinegars. Each session features one of these important plant preparation techniques so you will have the skills to continue harvesting throughout the season.

Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.

We will make hand brooms (non wood handle brooms) both 'turkey wing' and 'round' broom designs. Each broom maker will also make a scrub brush for dishes - or for testing if brownies are done!

COST: sliding scale of $40-65, with a nonrefundable $10 deposit ahead of time here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. Please bring cash or check for the remainder that day.

All materials are included: Broom Corn, Waxed Thread wound around piece of wood, Scissors, Pliers, Loppers.

Limited to 14 participants.

Structure of the class:

• Meet and Greet (Introductions, flow of the day)

• Introduce the materials (broom corn, thread, tools)

• Bryan demonstrates the round brush broom and pan scrubber

• Participants make round brush broom

• Bryan demonstrates the 'turkey wing' broom

• Participants make the turkey wing broom

• Showcase our makings and closing

The Venue: Emerson House at Tuckaway Farm is a new indoor/outdoor community space on a working farm available for mission-related activities. Their goal is to both share and support this space as a resource for healthy agriculture and community. There is indoor and outdoor space which could adapted depending on the weather and class needs.

Presenters:
Bryan is a community member of the Piscataqua Watershed who revels in the tidal rhythms. Bryan feels summoned to the curious connections of place and community. Pruning old apple trees, maple sugaring, scything hay, or sitting with a neighbor to greet the fireflies. Bryan believes hand work and utilitarian crafts are a gateway to our belonging and intimacies with place and story.
Yulia is a member of Seacoast Permaculture board and an avid environmentalist and maker of things from natural or repurposed materials.

Sign up Here

$35.00

Jenna Rozelle offers a simplified version of her wild food walks with no meal at the end and more time to spend with the plants. This makes it easier for her and more affordable for you. She will be holding these regularly throughout the spring, summer and fall at different farms across Maine and New Hampshire. This first one will be here at Tuckaway Farm in Lee, NH - please register below.

June 20 from 5-8PM.

$40

3 free scholarship spots available

Purchase Tickets

There is a pharmacopeia of support available to us in the plants that grow in the fields, wild places and even in your own yard. Learning to identify, harvest and prepare these plants - with appreciation and reverence - creates a meaningful relationship not only with the plants, but the whole ecosystem in which we live. When we bring more plants into our kitchens, as food or supportive remedies, life just gets better!

We used to have such a strong connection with the plants, flowers and trees that grow all around us and knew how to use them to support our health. While much of that knowledge has been lost over the last 100 years or so, it’s not too late to reconnect with the wisdom of our ancestors and the land on which we live.

The workshops are led by Alison Magill, herbalist, ecologist, gardener, seed-saver and dedicated plant-lover. Join one or all of the 6 workshops offered this summer as part of the Wild and Weedy Wellness series. The 6 workshops are designed so that by the end of the season, you will have created a home herbal pantry to support you all year long!

Workshop Format:

Each workshop starts with a plant walk through the property of Tuckaway Farm in Lee NH. Over the course of the season, we will visit the different places where wild weeds are ready to harvest. Then we’ll return to the Emerson House kitchen to prepare what we’ve gathered. Each workshop will teach a different preparation method such as herb drying and storage, using beneficial plants as food or making different extracts or oils. Participants will take home a preparation each session. All supplies and materials are included in the cost of the workshop.

PLANT WALK ONLY OPTION is available for those who are not interested in making the herbal preparations.

Workshop Participation:

The workshop cost is $45 single or $65 couple or family. Family tickets only include 1 preparation. If you wish to double your take-home, please register as 2 adults. I recommend that children be ages 6 or entering 1st grade in order to participate. Contact me if you have any questions about your child participating at: thewellcultivatedlife@gmail.com

Plant walk only tickets are $20 single and $35 family.

Plants:

The exact plants we’ll be collecting each month are not guaranteed! Why? Because although we know the general seasonality of the wild plants, every year’s growing season - rain and temperature - is different and plants may not be ready to harvest on a specific date.

Here are a few of the plants we will be looking for each month:

MAY: Nettle, violet, chickweed, dandelion, pine, cleavers

JUNE: Yarrow, plantain, self-heal, St Johns wort, elder flower, horsetail

JULY: Comfrey, clover, mullein, raspberry

AUGUST: Bee balm, goldenrod, jewelweed, black cherry

SEPTEMBER: Aster, elder berries, goldenrod, mushrooms

OCTOBER: Root harvesting! Burdock, yellow dock, dandelion, Japanese knotweed.

Preparations:

To create a usable home apothecary, home herbalists follow the seasons to harvest plants when they are at their peak readiness. Each plant favors a different type of preparations: some are best dried and made into tea. Others have properties that are best extracted in oils or vinegars. Each session features one of these important plant preparation techniques so you will have the skills to continue harvesting throughout the season.

Purchase Tickets Here