We offer Farm Tours to groups and individuals by appointment.
Give us a call if you have a day care class, grade school class, or other group or individual that you would like to tour our gardens and visit with our chickens
Summer Gardening Camps for Kids
Half-Day Camps Available with Late-Pick Up if Desired
Camps will be Monday through Friday starting
June 6th and will run each week through the week of July 25th.
Registration is first-come-first served with a limit of 10 children per week.
(Unless special arrangements are made where support is provided by your school or other group.)
For full details, registration forms, and cost information,
Please send an e-mail to Farmer Pam
pam@farmerpam.com
You can purchase gift certificates to any of our future workshops.
The size of the workshops is limited, so get your registration in early.
Everyone is requested to bring a chair, something to drink (ice is provided), and a dish, plate or other to share with everyone during lunch.
Note: For the wild edibles classes you are requested to bring a dish
made from something "wild".If you need ideas, contact Farmer Pam by phone at 997-4647.
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The cost to attend most all our workshops is:
$25.00 per person, $40.00 per couple,
$15.00 for students, and children 12 and under are free.
Scholarships available on an as-needed basis.
The cost of our Wild Edibles Workshop is:
$35 per person and $60 per couple.
$20 for students and children under 12 are free
You can check the weather forecast at the bottom of this page.You pay the day of the workshop at the registration desk.
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To check the local weather forecast, click here.
Rain Date for Saturday Workshops is the next day, Sunday, unless otherwise indicated.
Rain Dates for Sunday Workshops - Varies - Contact Us the Morning of for Info
http://www.findlocalweather.com/free_weather_on_your_site/fl/monticello.html
Titles of some upcoming workshops: (If there is a subject you are interested in and don't see it hear, please e-mail me and I will be happy to include it in one of our upcoming workshops) - Woodland Forest Gardening - How to plan out a sustainable feast in your backyard. We will discuss layering your backyard with perennial plants, that once established, pruning to keep each plant in its space is just about all you need to grow food in your backyard without the need to replant every year. - Food Storage Techniques - Full of tips and tricks to longer shelf life. - Hypertufa Class - Come join us and bring a friend to make your own planters, garden stones and more out of a light weight material. Everyone in the class will get a chance to make a container or other garden feature of their choice that they can take home with them. Cost is $20 per person plus materials. - Developing an Eco-System in Your Garden and/or Your Patio, Backyard, etc. We will have hands on demonstrations of how to construct homes for several creatures that you will enjoy having around, whether it is just for the pleasure of it or it is to enhance the bug control in your garden. This will include not only birds, but also bats (yes, they actually eat every bug that is a nuisance to humans, toads, etc. We will include information on constructing a water feature as well as a wetland area for aquatic plants, especially the edible ones.
- Garden Plan - We will develop your own personal garden plan that covers an entire year, including succession cropping, companion planting, when to start seeds, which plants you can transplant and which ones you need to sow direct into the soil.
- Survival Gardening - We will have lots of tips on how to become self-sufficient and sustainable. We will demonstrate how to build solar ovens, from sophisticated ones to very basic ones. We will have discussions on how to store water, food, seeds, along with items that should be in your Bug Out Bag, how to heat your home and water with solar energy very inexpensively, and much, much more. Wild Edible Walks at your place or ours. - Seasonally four times a year and upon request at your place. Herbalism - How to make teas, infusions, salves and poultices. We will share information on several choice herbs/plants to have in your garden or on your property to grow as medicines, plus tips on when and how to harvest other plants in their habitats to make the above concoctions that will last a long time. Also, we will discuss how you can overcome allergies to specific plants/pollen. As usual we will have many other tips and tidbits to share on this subject.
