Workshop led by Richardson’s Whitetail Services, LLC

Learn how to evaluate your property and manage it to improve wildlife habitat.

Learn how to create ideal natural food, bedding and nesting habitat as well as ways to create and offer seasonal planted wildlife forage if you desire.

This workshop is suitable for all land owners regardless if you do or do not hunt.

Bing a packed lunch. Kids under 16 join for free!

Saturday, May 24

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join us for a yoga class at Dancing Bear Farm - where the goats are also invited!

Christy Catsos is a special educator and yoga teacher based in Claremont, New Hampshire. She completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training through Breathe for Change, focusing on inclusive and trauma-informed yoga. Christy teaches slow flow classes which are accessible for all levels.

Christy will lead us through a yoga class suitable for all abilities while the goats graze and play amongst us. There will be plenty of time to take photos and pose with the friendly goats after class. This class is geared towards ages 12 and up.

Saturday June 7th 10-11 am

Rain date: Saturday June 14th 10-11 am

Jay Fisher of Long View Farm will guide us through a weekend of learning about draft horse care, safety, gear, and driving. Participants will be able to independently harness a horse and practice driving by the end of the course. No prior horse experience is required.

Friday July 18th: Evening Social and introduction to draft horse philosophy.

Saturday July 19th: Basics of horse communication, care, harnessing, and driving. Participants will each have a chance to practice harnessing and driving

Sunday July 20th: Lingering questions, hoof care, and more hands on experience

See the full agenda for more details

Fatima Grace will be teaching three classes this season at Dancing Bear Farm

May 25th: Farm to Fizz - Fermentation

August 23rd: DIY Salves Workshop

August 24th: Herbalism 101 for Kids (and their grownups!)

Fatima Grace of Vermont Green Dwelling Homestead & Micro-Apothecary

Berkley will be teaching two classes this season at Dancing Bear Farm

August 2nd & 3rd: Garden-grown and Foraged Natural Dyes

August 23rd: Fresh Leaf Indigo Dyeing Workshop

Berkley Heath is a natural dyer and printmaker fascinated by the sources and history of art materials. With a formal education and work background in ecological design and organic agriculture, she began growing dye plants nearly ten years ago and since then has cultivated a dye garden every year, processing the plants throughout the season into dyes, pigments, and inks to use in her work. Her work is grounded in these seasonal processes at her home in rural New Hampshire: spending time seeding, tending to plants, harvesting and making art materials as well as studying and experimenting with traditional surface design techniques with natural dyes on cloth. Natural dyeing is an incredible confluence of so many of her interests, from plant biology and organic chemistry, to design and ethnobotany, and she feels passionate about sharing this craft with others. She teaches workshops at craft schools and farms across New England, including Snow Farm in Williamsburg, MA and Sanborn Mills Farm in Sanbornton, NH. She believes that physical interaction with the landscape facilitates a sense of place, wellbeing, and stewardship of our natural world.

Tim Swanson and his team at Owl Eyes Wilderness will be offering two classes this season at Dancing Bear Farm

August 24th: Adult Survival Class

August 24th: Children’s Survival Skills

ABOUT OWL EYES WILDERNESS SURVIVAL

Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival is a “traveling” wilderness survival school that seeks to connect people of all ages to the landscape in hopes to protect and restore our natural world. OEWS strongly believes that in order to see the natural world as “home”, we must experience hands-on activities that lead us to see the forest as a positive and safe place to be. These activities range from shelter building, fire skills, wood carving, foraging, animal tracking, and many other skills that ALL of our ancestors participated in. Through the practice of wilderness survival skills, we learn to connect with ourselves as we discover what is truly important to us. OEWS provides judgement free learning where you are encouraged to come to a class and be who you are. If you are an inexperienced nature lover and would like to gain intro level skills, if you are an avid hunter who would like to deepen your survival skills and be challenged, or if you would like to gift your child a fun birthday party they will learn a lot from, book a class with Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival!

Founded in 2014 by Tim Swanson, Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival seeks to empower, inspire, and connect people of all backgrounds to the natural landscape.

Shawn Walch of Slow Culture Life LLC will lead two poultry processing workshops this summer and fall

July 26th & October 4th

Join us for a hands-on poultry processing workshop at Dancing Bear Farm, where you will have the chance to learn how to process chickens from slaughter to packaging! Each participant will go home with a freshly processed, pasture-raised freedom ranger chicken.

Bring plants to swap and go home with new varieties to plant! May through September on the first Tuesday each month at Dancing Bear Farm.

First Tuesday of each month May - September

6:00 - 7:30 pm

We're so excited to plan our third Community Work Weekend at Dancing Bear Farm! This work weekend we will be focused on tree and shrub planting, inoculating mushroom logs, and fixing fences.

May 17 - 18

A Barter Circle is a great way to build connections with others in our community over shared interests, skills to be exchanged, and compatible trades.

Saturday May 31st

4:00 - 6:00 pm