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Peace and Carrots CSA and Homestead Party!!!!!!!!




Peace and Carrots Homestead Party!!!!!!!!

I would like to invite everyone to a long weekend camp-out and potluck
homestead party. This will be September 4,5,6 and 7th, 1998. Come camp in our
fields and woods. There are 2 creeks on the property for cooling off and
playing in. We will give tours of our underground house, solar greenhouse,
root cellar, sweat lodge, CSA farm,etc. 

There will be workshops on food drying, composting, cider pressing, bread oven
making/baking, preserving, homeschooling, organic farming/gardening, etc.

Bring a tent and camping supplies. Expect any sort of weather from hot and
humid to cold. There is a double-seater outhouse in the field for your use.
Solar showers will be available for those not wishing the cold rush of creek
bathing. Bring food to share and some for yourselves. 

If you would like to volunteer to teach something you know about at a
workshop, let me know what and when. Soap? Livestock? Woodworking? Etc.....

We are located less than an hour from many Vermont tourist attractions...Ben
and Jerry's Ice Cream, Cold Hollow Cider, Green Mountain Chocolates, Cabot
Cheese, the Barre Granite quarries, Brookfield floating bridge, etc.  There
are many mountain biking and hiking trails right from the farm.

To get here, head for Montpelier, VT., then take Rt. 12 north to Worcester.
Turn right on the Calais Rd. Go until the pavement stops...make a right turn
uphill on Collar Hill Rd. We are the second driveway on the right side. Look
for signs and cars.

There will be people here from all over. You can camp here...or stay in
Montpelier if you don't like "roughing it". There is a lake 1 1/2 miles from
here for swimming, fishing and canoeing. We have a canoe and our neighbor
rents them out. Peter will be teaching a workshop in corracle making....that's
a boat of twigs. There will be demos by homesteaders and tours to other farms.
Got any good ideas for what else we should do/offer? Everything is free, but
there will be a donation box to help pay for garbge removal, etc. There will
be a food vendor or two and we will have potlucks and take turns preparing
food. 

      Wendy

RSVP to Wendy Martin  PO Box 69  Calais, VT 05648      WSM311@aol.com
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On Monday,September 7th, one of the workshops will be a sawmill restoration.
About two miles from my house is a water powered sawmill....that's Robinson
Saw Mill at Kent's Corner. Beginning at 9am we will install new pipe in the
penstock.
There will be mud. Many hands welcomed :-) This is a historic site in
Calais,VT.

Does anyone who's coming have a pig for sale? I'm still looking for one for
the pig roast. We also decided to make ice cream as a workshop. So far we have
2 electric ice cream makers. I've been experimenting with yummy sounding ice
cream recipes....it's such a hardship  :-)   Hope to see you there!   
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Several people have asked for more specific times. Here is my answer:

Hmmmmm......you must have mistaken me for an organized person  :-D  I'm lucky
to have a list of workshops! The only one with a time so far is fixing up the
water mill at 9 am Monday. If you come here for Thursday night, there is a
potluck and concert by Grant Orenstein at 6:30.

Workshops include: grape arboring, food preserving, chainsaw maintenance,
coracle (boat) building, rope making, scarecrow making workshop, ice cream
making, origami, organic gardening/farming and CSA, simple homestead
carpentry, homeschooling, composting for garden and toilet, cider pressing and
maybe my neighbor will teach bread baking in an outdoor oven. We will have
campfires and potlucks each evening. The pig roast is Saturday.

Does anyone else want to offer a workshop? Did I leave off one you've already
told me you'd do?
 
Wendy     Peace and Carrots Farm    Vermont
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