Building a Composting Toilets with expert and author Carol Steinfeld at Caretaker Farm
Williamstown, Mass 10AM- 5PM, Sunday, May 4
We need to treat water better, right? Learn how to build a composting toilet system for field, cottage, home and boat as we build a working composting toilet for Bridget Spann and Don Zasada up at beautiful Caretaker Farm. We'll also touch on graywater systems, urine-diverting toilets, and ecological wastewater systems. Carol Steinfeld is the author of The Composting Toilet System Book, Liquid Gold: The Lore & Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants and the forthcoming Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling. She directs Ecowaters Projects and runs Ecovita, which supplies urine-diverting eco-toilets. These can be seen at the Cape Cod Center for Sustainable Living in Cotuit, Mass.
NOFA Members: $48 Non-members: $54

Transitioning a Dairy Herd from Winter to Summer Feed
Tuesday, May 6, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Rocky Acres Farm, 690 Coy Hill Road, Warren, MA

NOFA/Mass, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the University of Massachusetts Extension have organized these Grazing Workshops as a continuing education resource for Massachusetts farmers. Topics at each event will vary, but will include pasture management, organic transition and herd health, forage species, soil fertility, fencing and water systems, and summer and winter grazing. All pasture walks will take place from 10:00 - 1:00 (unless otherwise noted). Please bring your own lunch. For more information on any of these sessions, contact Winton Pitcoff, NOFA/Mass, at winton@nofamass.org or 413-634-5728; Steve Herbert, UMass Extension, at 413-545-2250 or sherbert@pssci.umass.edu; or Tom Akin, NRCS, at 413-253-4365 or thomas.akin@ma.usda.gov.

More details about each of these sessions, including directions to the farms, can be found at www.massgrass.org, or down loading this flyer here(long verion w/ directions) or shorter version here (without directions).

Cheesemaking #2-hard cheeses with Cliff Hatch at Upinngil Farm, Gill, Mass 8AM- 5PM, Sunday, May 11
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If you would like to be on the wait list, email Tom} Learn how to take raw milk and create a hard “cheddar” cheese. In this hands-on workshop, we will make several cheeses using different recipes and cultures. You are invited to bring 2 gallons of your own animals' milk to make more cheeses. Cliff Hatch has been making a variety of cheeses for more than 20 years.
NOFA Members: $64 Non-members: $70

Waste Veggie Oil Car Conversion with the environmentally friendly group “GreenGreaseMonkey”
Allston, Mass 9:30AM- 5PM, Sunday, May 18
You too can really run a diesel car, truck, tractor off the used grease from your local fried food place. Come learn how.
NOFA Members: $50 Non-members: $56

A talk on sustainable agriculture and eating locally

Professor John E Carroll, UNH
Monday, May 19th
Earthwatch Institute , Mass Audubon and Debra's Natural Gourmet invite you to join John E Carroll , Professor of Environmental Conservation at the University of New Hampshire, to discuss the use of oil for food production. More than 98% of the energy in our food system comes from oil and natural gas. Without oil to transport and produce our food, we cannot eat. Join us for an enlightening discussion about the ways in which we rely on oil and ways we can live more sustainably.

In recent years, Dr. Carroll's research has focused on sustainable agriculture, as well as agricultural ethics and values. His most recent works include: “The Wisdom of Small Farms and Local Food: Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and Sustainable Agriculture" and "Sustainability and Spirituality"

On Monday, May 19th Dr. Carroll will be speaking at the following times and locations: 12:00 noon in the Olsen Auditorium, 4 Clock Tower Place, 5th floor, Maynard MA (directions to Clock Tower Place; directions to the Auditorium)
3:00 pm at Mass Audubon’s Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary in Sharon
7:00 pm at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm in Lincoln

Make your own Tofu and Tempeh at the 21st Century Foods with Rudy Canale
Jamaica Plain, Mass 10AM-12:30PM , Saturday, May 24
Learn how to make your own soy and grain products? Come learn how you can with one of Boston’s most innovative small businesses. Trade groups visit from all over the world to see how to start up small-scale operations of tofu and tempeh.
NOFA Members: $27 Non-members: $32

Raising Chickens on Grass for Eggs and Meat: at Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds at Verrill Farm
Concord, Mass 1PM- 5PM, Sunday, May 25
Learn about raising broilers from chick to market - brooding, mobile coop construction, electric fencing, feed rations and supplements, veterinary care, marketing, and humane slaughter. Pete Lowy and Jennifer Hashley have also been working with NESFI and state regulators to implement a Mobile Poultry Processing Unit which will be available to view.
NOFA Members: $30 Non-members: $36