It was a full weekend, participants worked tirelessly. What a great group. Thank you to Jeremy Topitzer, not only for your timber framing knowledge and expertise, but also for being such a skilled instructor.
Earthen Oven Workshops
Katywil hosted 3 workshops to build an earthen oven, a century’s old technology still used today in small villages and communities around the world. These ovens are made from simple materials, clay, sand, straw and limestone. They hold heat beautifully,
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Building the Earthen Oven!
Big thanks to our fearless leaders, Ashley Schenk and Joshua Freund. We worked hard and steadily all day. What a great group and team effort. Sunday, June 5 we will have the Lime Plaster Workshop to seal it, and June 10-12 we will build a shelter for the oven at the Timber Frame Workshop.
Lime Plaster 101 Workshop
fter the stone foundation is in and the earthen oven is built, it should have a sturdy coat of protection. Natural builder, Ryan Chivers will be teaching plaster courses at Yestermorrow. Before he heads back to Colorado, he has arranged to come to Katywil, and guide us through the process, using the natural technique of...
Mushroom Inoculation Workshop April 23
The sun is getting higher and we are inoculating red oak, sugar maple, red maple and black birch logs with a variety of shiitake and oyster mushroom spawn.
Some people have shown an interest in attending a mushroom cultivation workshop.
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Mushroom Inoculation Workshop in Montague by Permaculture Institute
Steve Gabriel, program director for the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute and mushroom grower will be leading this workshop at Brooks Bend Farm in Montague on Sat, April 23 from 9-5.
All Welcome to Apple Pruning Refresher Course by Jono
This Thursday, March 31, at 10 am, Jono Neiger of Regenerative Design and the Conway School of Landscape Design will be at Katywil for a refresher course on apple tree pruning. He’ll teach us on one tree and assign us…
