LIFESTYLE FARMING CONFERENCE
Register Now for Spring 2018 Lifestyle Farming Conference
The Lifestyle Farming Conference is back, and more comprehensive than ever. With 44 courses (up from 29 last fall) the April 7 Conference highlights spring topics to help you work your chainsaw, improve your maple sugaring, or prepare your vegetable garden. You can also learn important year-round skills including homestead site assessment, permaculture principles, and farm financial management.
Experts hailing from Schoharie County and well beyond will present hands-on workshops to advance your homesteading skills. From bees to cheese and meat rabbits to saw milling, the Lifestyle Farming Conference promises to be an intensive and fun day of learning. Classes fill up fast, so register now.
Read all about the courses and register today at: www.cobleskill.edu/lifestylefarming
Maple Syrup 101
Sap to Syrup Processing
Sugar Bush Management
Maple Candies & Creams (3 Hour Skill Builder)
Summer Strawberry Patch
Cultivating Cider & Heirloom Apples
Bush Berries
Orchard Startup and Grafting (3 Hour Skill Builder)
Waking Up The Veggie Garden
Healthy Soil - Happy Plants
Growing with Drip Irrigation & Ag Films
Garden Planning & Seed Starting
Garden Insect & Disease Management
Mushrooms 101
Introduction to Wild and Medicinal Mushrooms
Mushroom Bags Cultivation (3 Hour Skill Builder)
Startup Farming
Homestead Site Assessment
Homestead Planning
Farm Financial Management
Farm Marketing for Beginners
Permaculture Principles
Introduction to Bees & Hives
The Backyard Flock
Meat Rabbits
Keeping Your Beef: Care and Nutrition
Know Your Cuts: Pork & Beef
Whole Hog Breakdown (3 Hour Skill Builder)
1/2 Cow Breakdown (3 Hour Skill Builder)
Setting an Edge: Knife & Tool Sharpening
Chainsaw 101
Homestead Saw Milling
Operating Small Farm Equipment
Spring Tractor Startup & Repairs (3 Hour Skill Builder)
Preparing Your Fibers for Use
Fiber Felting
BBQ & Smoking for Beginners (3 Hour Skill Builder)
Cheese Making: Beyond the Basics (3 Hour Skill Builder)
Culinary Herbs Preservation
Essential Oils
Sauvé & Lotions
Advanced Brewing: Beyond the Kit (3 Hour Skill Builder)
