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SUMMARY:Book Club Dinner:  Animal\, Vegetable\, Miracle: May 13th
DESCRIPTION:This is the second of our more conversational family-style dinners at the farm.    We are excited to present an evening that nourishes us with good food from the farm while engaging in a deeper community experience.  Our farm manager\, Marco Lam\, will be facilitating the discussion along with special guest\, Danielle Skov\, the owner and proprietor of our amazing local bookstore\, Off the Beaten Path.   We have both been inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's work and what better place to discuss a book on being a locavore than over a sumptuous farm-to-table dinner! \nWhen published in 2007\, ANIMAL\, VEGETABLE\, MIRACLE was embraced by readers worldwide and quickly earned its place as a credo for the locavore movement. The family's chronicle of struggles and triumphs as they rooted themselves to their Appalachian farm and adopted a locally-produced diet was met with critical acclaim\, spent years on bestseller lists and won the James Beard Award. \n“Ten years ago\, we wrote this book about our decision to get serious with eating local\, more or less forsaking all others\,” Barbara writes. “It was such a novel idea that we had to make up our own language for it\, although the word ‘locavore’ germinated so naturally from the lexicon that it was invented simultaneously by many people at around the same time. Now it’s in the dictionary and on menus all over the place. What we’d thought of as our eccentric family notion broke out into something of a scene. I don’t mean that we created a scene—not at all—but that we happened to publish our family’s story at a moment when lots of families were ready to examine and take more control of their own food stories.” \nChef Russell will take the best of the produce and fruit off the farm and craft a sumptuous family-style meal for us as we both talk about and eat from our local food chain! Buy your book at Off the Beaten Path and read it beforehand so that we can have a strong book group!
URL:https://elkstonefarm.com/event/book-club-dinner-animal-vegetable-miracle-may-13th/
LOCATION:Elkstone Farm\, 40345 Virtus Way\, Steamboat Springs\, CO\, 80487\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:Cultivating Oyster Mushrooms at home with Micheal Butts: May 15th\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Micheal will spend a day introducing you to growing Oyster Mushrooms on a small scale with simple processes you can do at home\, and you’ll go home with your first little “garden” of mushrooms.   In the morning we will start by introducing you to the wonderful world of fungi\, discuss growing mediums well suited for Oyster varieties and the conditions that help them to thrive to abundant fruiting. We will discuss where we can find all the commonly available resources. I will have step by step instructions for you on preparing the growing medium and how to create the favorable conditions for fruiting as the mycelium grows.  This class was really popular last year and it was wonderful hearing about the successes of the students growing mushrooms! \nAfter a wonderful farm-to-table lunch at the farm we will spend a couple hours having fun building our own mushroom grow bags with materials I will have ready to assemble.   Folks will go home with some of their own innoculated mushroom bags. \n\n \n\n\n\n\nMicheal Butts is an urban homesteader in downtown Loveland\, Colorado packing his quarter acre estate with a flock of yard birds\, several colonies of honey bees\, garden beds\, a wood fired coffee roastery\, beer and mead brewing equipment and a firewood shed. He is the production manager for Crown Mushrooms farm in nearby Berthoud.
URL:https://elkstonefarm.com/event/cultivating-oyster-mushrooms-at-home-with-micheal-butts-may-15th/
LOCATION:Elkstone Farm\, 40345 Virtus Way\, Steamboat Springs\, CO\, 80487\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Apothecary Program,Permaculture
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SUMMARY:Bee Guardianship Workshop: May 17-18th\, 2025 with Alex DeCesaro
DESCRIPTION:We are super excited to bring back one of our favorite Bee Guardians\, Alex DeCesaro\, for another round of mind blowing class about how to care for bees. Alex teaches beekeeping with a bee-centric approach to promote a beekeeping practice that is more rooted in nature. She has studied under Backyard Hive's Corwin Bell and works with Michael Thiele to bring back natural nesting sites to areas on the Front Range.  This class is open to folks new to beekeeping\, just curious or skilled beekeepers looking for a holistic understanding of bee guardianship! \nSession 1:\nMay 17th: 10am - 3pm\nSession 1 covers more than just the bee basics\, which is a misnomer because there is nothing basic about bees! Alex paints a fascinating picture of how bee genetics inform survivor behavior traits\, how these traits make up the bees' behavioral immune system\, which directly relate to survivability. Alex  launches into the big picture of bees as a superorganism\, why we teach beekeeping the way we do\, and why we designed the type of hives we use. We compare and contrast different hive styles used by the majority of beekeepers\, but we also explore various management practices that natural Bee Guardians use to create a sustainable habitat for the bees. Once we learn the bee basics\, understand the individual types of bees in the colony\, and can identify and discern the various combs and their uses in the nest\, we will have the foundation to continue onto Session 2. \n  \nSession 2:\nMay 18th: 10am - 3pm\nIn Session 2 we go through step-by-step management practices during the seasons of the hive. We learn to "read" combs from different locations in the honey bee nest and assess their condition\, their state of health and many other factors. Alex demonstrates unique techniques for hive management\, presents a "time lapse" perspective of how the honey bee nest is initially created\, how it evolves over the first year and how it is sustained over the years through careful observation and application of specific management techniques at the right times. By the end of Session 2 you should be able to identify colony problems\, apply solutions and be able to assess what to do for your bees in just about every circumstance that you will encounter. Session 2 is also when we get to see how Alex approaches the hives and how she flows with the energy of the bees\, and how she moves through the hive\, weather permitting. \n  \nAbout the Instructors: \n \nAlex has been keeping bees for 6 years and is passionate about sharing this knowledge with others in order to help the local pollinator population. Alex teaches beekeeping with a bee-centric approach to promote a beekeeping practice that is more rooted in nature. She has studied under Backyard Hive's Corwin Bell and works with Michael Thiele to bring back natural nesting sites to areas on the Front Range. She is interested in keeping bees on a spiritual level and aims to be a steward of the earth through this ancient practice. You can find out more about her work through her website https://www.alma-apiary.com.
URL:https://elkstonefarm.com/event/bee-guardianship-workshop-may-17-18th-2025/
LOCATION:Elkstone Farm\, 40345 Virtus Way\, Steamboat Springs\, CO\, 80487\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Traditional Artistry Workshops
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