7th Annual 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge / Hosted by: Food Solutions New England
OnlineFrom April 5th to the 25th join together with thousands of people on a shared journey of learning, expanding your knowledge, and charting a course of action to dismantle racism in our food system and our world!
Berkshire Grown Winter Farmers’ Market
Eisner Camp, 53 Brookside Rd. Great Barrington MABerkshire Grown Great Barrington Winter Farmers Market featuring locally grown and produced foods, including fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, breads, and more.
Making Korean Natural Farming Amendments
MAAre you looking to learn more about Korean Natural Farming amendments and start making your own? Join us as we learn from Benjamin Morgan-Dillon how to use locally-sourced plants and fruits to create amendments and supplements that are tailored to our geographic environment. Korean Natural Farming retrains our focus from looking at what the plant needs now to anticipating what the plant is going to need in the coming weeks.
Happy Healthy Chickens
OnlineAre you looking forward to starting your own backyard flock of chickens? Join us for another event from our Resilient Garden Series on Tuesday, April 13th, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. Adding poultry to your backyard, or farm can build your soil nutrients, control pest populations and even clear land while supplying you with healthy food. Our instructor, Kirby Lecy will present all the things she wished she had known about natural chicken keeping before adding them to their small farm. We will cover all the basics of keeping poultry for eggs
Microorganisms: A Key Solution for Climate, Soil, Food, and Our Health / Hosted by: Climate Action Now
OnlineWe routinely kill beneficial microorganisms, with disastrous consequences for human and environmental health. Instead, we can promote beneficial microorganisms to help change dangerous trends that threaten our future.
No-Till Gardening / Hosted by: Trustees Boston Community Gardens
OnlineThis workshop is offered online OR in-person at 10 Josephine Community Garden, Boston, MA. Follow the workshop link for details. Learn to foster a healthy soil food web and reduce diseases and weeds with no-till gardening.
Pollinator Protection Policy – Working through State and Local Campaigns
OnlineWhat is the state of protecting pollinators through policy change? Join us as we have an insightful discussion with NOFA/Mass’s Policy Director Marty Dagoberto and Mireille Bejjani, Western Massachusetts Community Organizer for Community Action Works, co-facilitators of the Community Pesticides Reduction (CPR) network. This webinar will double as the monthly meeting of the CPR network and give all attendees a chance to plug into community-scale efforts to protect pollinators as part of the state and national movement.
High Yield Gardening / Hosted by: Trustees Boston Community Gardens
OnlineThis workshop is offered online OR in-person at the West Springfield Community Garden, Boston, MA. Follow the workshop link for details. Learn how to take good care of your soil and employ practices like trellising, succession planting, and interplanting to grow more food.
Vegetable Gardening 101 / Hosted by: Trustees Boston Community Gardens
OnlineThis workshop is offered online OR in-person at Greenwood Community Garden, Boston MA. Follow the workshop link for details. We’ll cover the basics for growing a healthy, organic garden including soil prep, planting, watering, and garden planning.
Propagating Nut Trees and Woody Perennial Fruit
Join NOFA/Mass at Big River Chestnuts in Sunderland, MA with Buzz Ferver from Perfect Circle Farm for a nutty day focused on how to propagate nut trees (and more) for your farm and homestead. Buzz is a lifelong grower with many years experience in woody plant propagation. Our host Jono Neiger is welcoming NOFA/Mass to his farm where, since 2018, he has developed a diversified agroforestry system with blight-resistant chinese chestnuts, heartnuts, elderberries, aronia, and other crops.