Faculty: Jules Guillemette This five-day course provides students with the practical and scientific knowledge needed to create artisanal meat products at home or in a small-scale professional setting. Students will learn…

JOIN US!! July 13, 2017 – URI Sheep and Goat Parasite Control Workshop and Field Day, URI Peckham Farm and Kingston Campus, RI 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM – Integrated…

Are you curious how social media would work as a marketing tool for your farm business? Interested in learning about the different types of platforms and who uses them? Come…

Faculty: Brittany Cole Bush Pastoralism prevails! This activated five-day intensive is charged with inspiration to help envision and design a regenerative agricultural enterprise. Guided by modern-day urban shepherdess Brittany Cole Bush,…

We invite experienced and inexperienced “grass farmers” to come and talk about sustainable rotational pasture management with emphasis on roughage. We will be considering medium browse plants, small shrubs and trees as sustainable, renewable sources of browse for our goats. The overall farm goal is to provide natural sustainable rotational browse and pasture three seasons…

At Green Heart Farm and Retreat Center Join Grazing Specialist Kimberly Hagen and partners from the VSGA for a pasture walk to learn about how you and your sheep can manage invasive species. There will be a focus on bedstraw and other weeds in the pastures. Are they nutritious? Will my sheep die if they…

Join UVM Extension and the VSGA at Cloverworks Farm in Albany, where farmers Katie and Matt have moved their operation from rented pastures to their own place with 40 Border…

Join us for the 29th Annual Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival! September 30 - October 1, 2017 Festival website

The Vermont Weavers Guild is offering a beginning spinning workshop taught by Donna Kay on October 14th (afternoon) and all day Sunday the 15th. We have some wheels to lend…