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, who will facilitate both creative processing and concrete development of entrepreneurship skills, students will explore new ways of developing and doing business with regenerative practices—on…

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 and Bluefaced Leicester sheep. Learn how to identify your pasture's needs and deficits and learn to plan an improvement strategy through haying, mowing and rotational…

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 if people are without. The cost of the day and a half workshop is $100. More information here: http://vtweaversguild.org/calendar/workshops.html. We meet and hold our workshops…

Integrated Parasite Control & FAMACHA© Training Workshop The class is full. If you still want to attend, call Dave Martin at 802-899-2104 to see if there have been any cancellations. Green Mountain College, 1 Brennan Circle, Poultney, VT 05764 Room #1, Griswold Library Basement

23rd Annual Dairy Sheep Symposium, Nov 30th - Dec 2nd 2017, Estrimont Suites and Spas, Orford (near Sherbrooke), Quebec. This year’s Symposium, entitled “Profitability in Dairy Sheep Production”, will focus on genetics and nutrition of the dairy sheep flock. The Dairy Sheep Association of North America’s annual symposium travels to a different North American location…

February 1st from 9:30 to 2:00 Champlain Valley Fair Grounds in Essex, Vermont. http://www.vtfarmshow.com/ Agenda coming soon RSVP will be needed to guarantee lunch (email Bay at hammonde@greenmtn.edu)