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To register for a workshop, you must download and print our registration form. Complete the form and return it to us with your payment by mail or fax.
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Summer Tasks for the Vegetable Garden
With Mac Mead
July 11, 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM
Learn and practice basic gardening skills for the mid-season garden, including weeding, mulching, watering, succession planting, harvesting, pest control, and cover cropping. This workshop is a follow-up to Beginning a Vegetable Garden (March 28), though previous attendance is not a pre-requisite for this workshop. All gardeners, especially beginners, are welcome to participate.
The general context will be that of organic and Biodynamic gardening, but details about specific Biodynamic practices will not be included. This workshop series is an excellent complement to the One-year Part-time Training in Biodynamics, which covers such topics as composting and Biodynamic preparations.
Fee: $95
Click here to download a printable registration form.
Summer Organic Beekeeping Workshop
With Ross Conrad
July 25, 9:00 AM Till 6:00 PM
This workshop covers topics suitable for commercial and hobby beekeepers, with a primary focus on intermediate and advanced methods. Specific seasonal tasks will be included as well as more general activities and concerns.
The workshop will address natural and organic beekeeping topics and practices not ordinarily covered in lectures and articles, including: presence and mindfulness in the bee yard; working with swarms; non-toxic mite and foulbrood control; Colony Collapse Disorder; evaluating hives for health and vigor; managing hives to ensure adequate winter stores and excess honey production without stressing the bees; and preparing for the honey harvest. Weather permitting, the day will include visits to the hives, where techniques for handling bees will be demonstrated with opportunities for hands-on experience by workshop participants. Bring a veil, if you have one.
Fee: $95.00 Click here to download a printable registration form.
Bread in the Garden
Our wood-fired cob oven is one of the Pfeiffer Center garden's best-loved features. We bake sourdough rye and occasional special breads that we are pleased to offer for sale to the public on a pre-order basis.
Please sign up by Wednesday before baking day by calling 845-356-1673 (not the office). Bread is available to pick up in the seed room (the little red cabin in the garden) after 4:00 pm on baking day (usually a Friday). All proceeds benefit programs of the Pfeiffer Center.
Next baking day:
To be announced! (Watch this space.)