Gardening, Food and Small-Scale Farming

With Gavin Dandy, Everdale Farm manager

At Everdale Farm learn all you need to know to start your own organic vegetable garden, from soil prep to seed starting, transplants, compost, mulching and more!

Refreshments will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

The Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario and Everdale present...

Market Garden Crop Rotations with Anne Slater, who makes a living farming a two acre market garden.

Learn how to use crop rotation to condition and enhance your growing ability in an intensive or small market garden situation. This workshop can be applied to community gardens, large personal veg gardens and mixed vegetable CSA farms.

Coffee and tea will be available, but please bring your own lunch!

The Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario and Everdale present:

Pastured Poultry with Ruth Knight, who has successfully raised pastered poultry at her farm in Clifford, Ontario for over 7 years.

This workshop will offer an overview of different pastured poultry techniques from feeding, housing, fencing, watering, and predator protection. You will also learn about the current rules and regulations regarding pastured poultry and how to stay current on those issues.

Coffee and tea will be available, but please bring your own lunch!

With local beekeeper extraordinaire, Jay Mowat.

Note: This workshop will be offered again in 2009

This is an introductory seminar on bees and beekeeping. Learn the roles and responsibilities of the queen, drones, house bees and foragers. Take a look at a year in the life of a hive: how the colony gets through a winter, builds up in the spring, and prepares for summer foraging. And get suited up in veils and gloves and take a tour of the actual hive to look for eggs, larva, nectar, honey and pollen.