I was honored to receive a very kind invitation recently from Tim Hensley and Jane Post to visit them at their beautiful farm just outside of Berea. Tim and Jane are organic gardeners, mushroom growers, and generally awesome people who host several workshops (called Forest Retreats) on their farm every year. I am a big [...]
I had an opportunity to visit the folks at Berea Farmers Market a few weeks ago for their Live Large! Live Local! festival. They had an amazing farm-to-table lunch that was out of this world. (Trust me, this line of work leads to eating a lot of farm-to-table meals, but this one was an incredible value [...]
There are lots of good sustainability-related activities going on this weekend, so I thought I’d give you a heads-up so you can be making plans in advance. (Personally, there are so many that I still haven’t made up my mind on where I want to go!) Friday, September 14th Connecting Farm$ to Local Market$ workshop [...]
I had the privilege of presenting a workshop to about 100 of Kentucky’s best and brightest students a few weekends ago at the Field to Fork Festival in Paint Lick, Kentucky. I taught seed bomb production to participants in the Governor’s Scholar program. We used red clay dug from my home and mixture of native [...]
Mark your calendars! There are two major events coming up soon that I wanted you to be aware of. The Kentucky Association for Environmental Education will be holding their annual Sustainability Symposium on June 22nd at the Russell Acton Folk Center in Berea. The registration deadline is June 15th! This day-long conference will address the topic [...]
