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12th Annual Seed Celebration

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The Sustainability Project presents the 12th Annual Seed Celebration & Sustainable Community Fair on Saturday, February 11th from 8:45am to 4:30pm. The celebration will be held at the Orchard School, 114 Old Settlers Road, in Alstead, NH. There will be Vendors, Educational Displays & Workshops, Family Fun, Music, A Cafe, Seeds, and Raffle. There is a suggested donation of $10 per person or $20 dollars for family. For more info call (603) 209-7272.

This year’s theme “Building Resilience, Regenerating the Earth” focuses on environmental stewardship, gardening, tools for personal transformation and skills for living well in a changing world.

Schedule Of Events

All Day:
The Caterpillar Lab, Activities for Children & Families, Exhibits, Displays, Cafe, Raffle, Seeds For Sale & Swap

8:30 Event Opens
8:45 Welcome
9-9:30 Doug Clayton: Biochar – Classroom A/Outdoors,
Outdoor component: 9:30-10 & 2:45-3:15
9-9:45 Valerie Piedmont: Designing the Self – Community Room
9-10 Marty Castriotta: Intro to Permaculture – Farmhouse
9:45-10:30 Jan Lambert: Let’s Save the Rain – Classroom A
10-10:30 Tom Prunier: Kimchi – Cafe
10:15-11:30 Carl Majewski: Basic Garden Design – Farmhouse
10:30-11:30 Hilary Richardson: JoyMoves – Community Room
10:45-11:45 Dave Wichland: Mycological Landscaping – The Big Picture – Classroom A
11-11:45 Anton Elbers & Jenny Wright: Pruning – Outdoors
12-12:45 Solar Sisters Concert – Community Room
1-2:00 Kevin Warzecha & Dee Denehy: Tiny Houses – Classroom A
1:15-2 Kate Dean: Mending: Repurposing Textiles – Community Room
1:15-2:15 Medicine Story: Permaculture of the Heart – Farmhouse
1:30-2:30 Chip Chapman: Managing your Woodlot – Outdoors
2:15-3:15 Lionel Chute: WALES & the 5 Imperatives – Classroom A
2:15-3:15 Lior Sadeh: The Way of Tea – Cafe
2:30-3:15 Bill Whyte: Visualization — the art and practice of imagining – Farmhouse
3:15-4:00 Lil’ Orphans band
3:45 Last Call for Raffle
4:00 Raffle Drawing
4:30 Clean-up Begins!

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The Saxy Chef

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6,000 local eggs; 40 gallons of local maple syrup; 700 pounds of local blueberries; 22 pounds of dry spices from Attar in Harrisville; 2,760 pounds of local apples; 1,476 pounds of Cabot butter; and 3,800 pounds of King Arthur Vermont flour. That about sums up the ingredient list of baker Aubrey Saxton of Saxy Chef in 2015. Hard to believe? You haven’t even heard the half of it.

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Future of Farming in a Changing World Conference

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Save the Date:
March 25, 2017 at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough

The Cornucopia Project will host the Future of Farming in a Changing World Conference to discuss how to build a sustainable and community-based food system, look at land availability, and how climate change will impact farming practices, with a focus on young farmers.

The keynote speaker is Philip Ackerman-Leist, professor, farmer and author of Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems.  For more information, contact Joyce at admin@cornucopiaproject.org.

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