Do you like gardening? Do you want to learn more about growing your own food? Would you like taking home fresh produce each week from a CSA box? Consider joining us as we try a new model of cooperative gardening: the DIY CSA in our large organic* garden. *We are not certified organic, but we … More Join our DIY CSA this Season
We manage an abandoned apple orchard of about a hundred trees. This year appears to have a bumper crop. We need your help clearing out brush, wild grapes, and other growth. In exchange, we’ll be hosting a apple-picking and cider-making event in September and volunteers will be invited! Our first meet up will be this … More Apple Orchard Work Days — Volunteer Sign Up
In this week three weeks of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Summer Weather is Here The last three weeks have been 70s, then 80s, and finally 90s with occasional … More Three for One: Hour-A-Day Gardening
We’ve been growing and processing wheat and rye by hand for a few years. In mid-July, we will harvest it using scythes and sickles. Then it has to get tied into sheaves and stood up in shocks to dry. Once dry, it has to be threshed to remove the grains from the heads, and then … More Upcoming Workshop — Hand-Harvesting Wheat and Rye, Jul. 16, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., $35 ($30 for members)
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Perfect Spring Weather The weather continues to be seasonable and wonderful: rain, warm, cool. The rain every three to four … More COVID!: Hour-A-Day Gardening
Have you ever dreamed of cooking a meal on a wood-fired stove? Did you grow up reading Little House on the Prairie? Are you interested in cooking using locally-sourced, non-fossil fuels? Then sign up right away for the woodstove cooking workshop put on by Holin Kennen. The class runs June 19, from 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. … More Learn to Cook on a Woodstove — With Friend of LTI, Holin Kennen
We keep chickens here at LTI. We grow feed for them in the fields, feed them kitchen scraps, eat the eggs, and butcher extra cockerels (young males) for our meat so we don’t need to buy it. Last year, under the advice of Holin over at the Victorian Technology Institute, we put bought-in day-old chicks … More It’s Called Biology, Honey! — Chicks Hatching
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Perfect Spring Weather The weather has been lovely and seasonal. Some rain, some warm, some cool. Plants (and weeds) are … More Slow and Steady: Hour-A-Day Gardening
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Back to Wet and Cool The temps this week returned to seasonable 70s with a couple bouts of rain. It … More Like a Dog . . . : Hour-A-Day Gardening
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] It Is Too Hot It hit 90 deg. F this week and was in the 80s for much of the … More Some Like It Hot?: Hour-A-Day Gardening