Earthen Plaster Party, August 7th, 10 am -5 pm

Do you want to get your hands dirty with some natural building?  Join us in making a large batch of earthen plaster from straw, clay and sand that we'll then use to maintain and refresh the natural buildings on the land.  Builders of all ages and all skill levels are invited to join in this dirty fun!  Snacks provided, and we'll take an hour break for lunch around 1 pm.  Please contact brenna@tryonfarm.org for more information.

Join us on Sunday May 15th from 10-5 for one of our favorite annual farm chores: mucking out the goat barn!

You get to hang out with our awesome goats and their really cute babies while cleaning out the old bedding straw in the barn. Yes! it is smelly. And yes! we make it really fun. Projects include loosening the bedding straw, pitching it into wheelbarrow (with a pitchfork!), and wheeling barrow loads of bedding into the muck pile.

Dress for the weather - snacks provided. Come for an hour or the whole day, meet us at the barn at the end of the driveway. 

  The workshop will be broken into two partsand cover basic low tech cultivation method as we ll as more advanced skills such as producing your own grain spawn.  Participants may register for P art 1, Part 2 or for both.   Part 1 o f the workshop will focus on growing common culina ry and medicinal mushrooms like Oysters, Turkey T ails, and Garden Stropharia from grain spawn usin g low tech, DIY methods.  Participants will get hands on experience with cultivating fungi in buck ets using straw and sawdust, as well as outdoor b eds on woodchips.  Grain spawn will be available for purchase for participants to take home.    Part 2 will take things to the next leve l giving participants an opportunity to learn and practice generating their own grain spawn and liqu id cultures.  Growing grain spawn can be intimida ting, but this workshop will aim to demystify theprocess and empower participants with some basic knowledge to get started. Producing your own grainspawn opens up a world of possibilities allowing you to grow fungi in great abundance.  Growing gr ain spawn requires a little bit of gear and equipm ent. We'll orient to some minimalist approach es as well as some common set-ups for cultivating fungi on grain starting from liquid cultures.  Li quid cultures will be available for purchase for p articipants to take home.