Margaret pours off the whey during the Spring 2009 Home Cheese Making Workshop with the Portland Permaculture Group.

We try to do several workshops in basic homesteading skills each season, to share what we have learned, or are in the process of learning. Workshops include Basic Home Cheesemaking, Baking, Poultry Slaughter & Processing, and Preserving & Canning. In some cases, we lead the workshops ourselves, in other cases we may invite fellow homesteaders or skilled members of the greater food, farming and homesteading community to be a guest workshop leader.

For certain workshops there might be a small fee to cover costs, but in general we do this more to share what we’ve learned, build community, and encourage others to experiment with and enjoy the pleasures and possibilities that come from living more sustainably and growing, raising, creating or saving your own food.

Our friends Don and Sam Lindgren at Rabelais Books in Portland offer a 10% discount to workshop attendees on books related to the workshop topics.

View our 2009 Homesteading Workshop Schedule

e-mail us at info[AT]tenapplefarm.com if you are interested in attending any of the workshops, for more information, or if you are interested in stopping by the farm.