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The Center for Sustainable Living in Bethlehem is offering the following summer workshops:

BUILDING AND USING ROCKET STOVES
Saturday, June 23, 1-3pm Fee $20.00

Never lose your food when the power goes out. Learn how to construct a simple cook stove from different, easily acquired materials. Be the neighbor everyone looks to when the next big storm hits.

COMPOSTING AND SOIL HEALTH
Saturday, July 1, 1-4 pm Fee $25.00

Soil is integral to life on the planet. Learn how to build soil and improve your soil to grow the best plants you ever saw! We will demonstrate building conventional compost piles; sheet composting; and worm composting. We will also explain how to make compost tea and the importance of the soil food web.

PUTTING UP THE HARVEST
Saturday, July 28, 1-3 pm Fee $20.00

Saving your garden harvest to eat later in the year is a thrifty and really satisfying thing to do. Save money and enjoy good quality food while eating your homegrown vegetables and fruit all year long using simple techniques that anyone can do in a home kitchen. We are still eating last year’s produce NOW!

EDIBLE WILD PLANTS
Wednesday, August 1, 6-8 pm. Fee $20.00

We will learn about finding and using common, easily identifiable native plants and weeds that are nutritious and FREE. Samples of dishes made with these plants will be offered.

EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS AND PERENNIAL EDIBLES
Saturday, August 4, 1-4pm Fee $25.00

Design and grow a garden that mimics nature and produces year after year with minimal new planting. Learn how to combine perennial edible plants using ecological design that draws from the science of ecology and practical observations of the forests around us.

We will be looking at native, mature woodlands, our EFG which is in its third summer and under development, and slides from more mature EFG’s to explain this concept.

BUILDING AND USING COLD FRAMES
Saturday, September 8, 1-4 pm. Fee $25.00

Extend your growing season or even grow all winter in a protected cold frame. With a sloping glass or plastic panel, facing south, cold frames are like greenhouses. Do as we do and harvest your greens all winter with no additional heat source other than the sun.

All workshops and seminars are held at
The Center for Sustainable Living
90 Cabbage Lane (P.O. Box 365)
Bethlehem, CT 06751
Phone: (203) 982-1884
Fax: (888) 241-5328
Email: cynthia@hgconnsoil.com
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR ALL PROGRAMS
Print out at registration form at www.connsoil.com