Forest Garden Class Canceled
Due to unforeseen difficulties with our partnering organization, the Susquehanna Farm School feels it is regrettably necessary to cancel the “Establishing a Food Forest” Permaculture Design Certification course. Reimbursements are being made through Mike Burcin at the Lancaster County Conservancy at mburcin@lancasterconservancy.org
Susquehanna Farm School does offer permaculture consultations and permaculture design specific to your property. Brandon is happy to work with and teach individuals how to establish a forest garden where you live. See the 'Permaculture Design & Consultation' page for details, fees, and contact information.
To keep in touch with the special guest teachers, visit their websites at:
Jon Darby - http://sterlingfarm.wordpress.com/about/ & http://www.hornfarmcenter.org/
Eli Weaver - http://lancasterfarmacy.blogspot.com/
Nathan Carlos Rupley - http://nathanrupley.wordpress.com/
Dale Hendricks - http://www.greenlightplants.com/
Wendy Brister - http://www.harveysgardens.com/
Wilson Alverez - Rebel Garden Tools
For more information on permaculture and forest gardens please refer to the following class materials:
Edible Forest Gardens vol. 1&2 - by Dave Jacke
Creating A Forest Garden - by Martin Crawford
A Primer of Ecological Principles - by Richard J Vogl
Permaculture Pathways - by David Holmgren
A Permaculture Manual - by Bill Mollison
And the following websites:
ApiosInstitute.org
Susquehanna Permaculture facebook page (local permaculturists)
Susquehanna Farm School does offer permaculture consultations and permaculture design specific to your property. Brandon is happy to work with and teach individuals how to establish a forest garden where you live. See the 'Permaculture Design & Consultation' page for details, fees, and contact information.
To keep in touch with the special guest teachers, visit their websites at:
Jon Darby - http://sterlingfarm.wordpress.com/about/ & http://www.hornfarmcenter.org/
Eli Weaver - http://lancasterfarmacy.blogspot.com/
Nathan Carlos Rupley - http://nathanrupley.wordpress.com/
Dale Hendricks - http://www.greenlightplants.com/
Wendy Brister - http://www.harveysgardens.com/
Wilson Alverez - Rebel Garden Tools
For more information on permaculture and forest gardens please refer to the following class materials:
Edible Forest Gardens vol. 1&2 - by Dave Jacke
Creating A Forest Garden - by Martin Crawford
A Primer of Ecological Principles - by Richard J Vogl
Permaculture Pathways - by David Holmgren
A Permaculture Manual - by Bill Mollison
And the following websites:
ApiosInstitute.org
Susquehanna Permaculture facebook page (local permaculturists)
NEW PDC - Establishing A Food Forest: From Resilient Gardens to Forest Gardens
Brandon Tennis of the Susquehanna Farm School
The Susquehanna Farm School, in association with the Lancaster County Conservancy presents...
Establishing A Food Forest: From Resilient Gardens to Forest Gardens
The globally recognized Permaculture Design Certification Course that will rewild and feed a community!
Presented by Brandon Tennis of the Susquehanna Farm School
and co-facilitated by Jon Darby of the Horn Farm Center
Eli Weaver of the Lancaster Farmacy
Wilson Alvarez of Rebel Garden Tools
Nathan Carlos Rupley of nathanrupley.wordpress.com
Dale Hendricks of Green Light Plants
Wendy Brister of Harvey's Gardens
and other bioregional permaculture practitioners.
June 1st - August 25th
$850 full tuition ($800 early registration), scholarships may become available.
Class size is limited, register now.
Class locations: Camp Snyder, Conestoga, PA
The Lancaster Farmacy, Lancaster, PA
The Horn Farm Center, Hellam, PA (York County)
Click here for full details including registration, class schedule, and curriculum.
Earn an internationally recognized certification in permaculture while learning how to produce food within sustainable, natural, and local ecosystems... across public lands and even in your own backyard!
Taught by accomplished and regional permaculture practitioners, Establishing A Food Forest, will teach you the skills and give you the experience to feel confident in living lightly on the land.
This class is intended for teens and adults, the beginner, the novice, and the advanced, as well as the guerrilla gardener, the organic farmer, the hunter/gatherer, the backyard grower, the homesteader, the prepper, the community planner, and the outdoor educator in all of us.
Permaculture design is ecological design. Some may even call it native science, or sensory awareness. It readily applies to homesteading, even urban and suburban homesteading, as well as agriculture, agro-forestry, community planning, nature awareness, and survival. It relies greatly on ecology, including social and spiritual ecology. And it hinges on every-day common application and practice. Permaculture design works to mimic the patterns of nature to produce abundance while reuseing energy and reduceing waste. In so doing, we can maximize the natural yields of our environment: food, fuel, fiber, medicine, habitat, and beauty.
Forest gardening maximizes these yields throughout all successional phases: from grasses to shrubland, then woodland, and followed by dense forest. We do this by understanding the properties and characteristics of each successional phase and by redefining what is a yield.
For more information on permaculture, natural farming, and forest gardens, please click on the 'What Is Permaculture'.
Establishing A Food Forest: From Resilient Gardens to Forest Gardens
The globally recognized Permaculture Design Certification Course that will rewild and feed a community!
Presented by Brandon Tennis of the Susquehanna Farm School
and co-facilitated by Jon Darby of the Horn Farm Center
Eli Weaver of the Lancaster Farmacy
Wilson Alvarez of Rebel Garden Tools
Nathan Carlos Rupley of nathanrupley.wordpress.com
Dale Hendricks of Green Light Plants
Wendy Brister of Harvey's Gardens
and other bioregional permaculture practitioners.
June 1st - August 25th
$850 full tuition ($800 early registration), scholarships may become available.
Class size is limited, register now.
Class locations: Camp Snyder, Conestoga, PA
The Lancaster Farmacy, Lancaster, PA
The Horn Farm Center, Hellam, PA (York County)
Click here for full details including registration, class schedule, and curriculum.
Earn an internationally recognized certification in permaculture while learning how to produce food within sustainable, natural, and local ecosystems... across public lands and even in your own backyard!
Taught by accomplished and regional permaculture practitioners, Establishing A Food Forest, will teach you the skills and give you the experience to feel confident in living lightly on the land.
This class is intended for teens and adults, the beginner, the novice, and the advanced, as well as the guerrilla gardener, the organic farmer, the hunter/gatherer, the backyard grower, the homesteader, the prepper, the community planner, and the outdoor educator in all of us.
Permaculture design is ecological design. Some may even call it native science, or sensory awareness. It readily applies to homesteading, even urban and suburban homesteading, as well as agriculture, agro-forestry, community planning, nature awareness, and survival. It relies greatly on ecology, including social and spiritual ecology. And it hinges on every-day common application and practice. Permaculture design works to mimic the patterns of nature to produce abundance while reuseing energy and reduceing waste. In so doing, we can maximize the natural yields of our environment: food, fuel, fiber, medicine, habitat, and beauty.
Forest gardening maximizes these yields throughout all successional phases: from grasses to shrubland, then woodland, and followed by dense forest. We do this by understanding the properties and characteristics of each successional phase and by redefining what is a yield.
For more information on permaculture, natural farming, and forest gardens, please click on the 'What Is Permaculture'.
A Letter of Transition and Thankfulness
Joe Tennis, Joe Sullivan, Mehgan Jahnke, & Ron Olander.
We would like to express our gratitude to all those individuals who have showed up, reached out, taken in, and shared bread with us as we transitioned out of our home and farmstead. We would also like to acknowledge those who have been with us, lent a hand, and opened up their homes to us over the years. Our successes reflect your support and selflessness. We are sincerely grateful.
We would also like to recognize the following local businesses who have given value to our organic efforts. For its second year our produce was served at Lancaster’s finest farm-to-fork restaurant, Maison, owned by Taylor and Leanne Mason; as well as the John Wright Restaurant in Wrightsville. Quips Pub served our produce regularly in their weekend specials, and George St Cafe frequently ordered from us with great enthusiasm. Sweet Anne’s Produce, Green Circle Organics, Expressly Local, and Lemon Street Market kept our foods stocked on their shelves. Please, if you’ve got to buy, consider buying from them first to rest assure that your money continues to support our local economy and ecological values.
Taking down our home and leaving the farm had always been a real possibility, but still we invested in the experience. In a quick two years at Ironwood Farm, the Susquehanna Farm School established a holistic orchard, an edible hedge, a coppice grove, an array of perennial crops including a mushroom log production, and a garden of herbal plant medicine, as well as: pioneered a progressive permaculture certification process, taught a multitude of classes, hosted six full time interns, partnered with several local organizations, and established itself as a cornerstone of beyond organic ecological transition.
Living simply has been all but simple, far from easy, and largely exhausting. In this time of unavoidable change we have the opportunity to transition towards a more resilient sustainability.
In the immediate future Brandon and Abby have traded the open farmland for the great open. With projects at home already in the making for 2013, we will begin the new year going cross-country to see the milky-way, wild shores, and some great big trees.
Sincerely,
Brandon & Abby
We would also like to recognize the following local businesses who have given value to our organic efforts. For its second year our produce was served at Lancaster’s finest farm-to-fork restaurant, Maison, owned by Taylor and Leanne Mason; as well as the John Wright Restaurant in Wrightsville. Quips Pub served our produce regularly in their weekend specials, and George St Cafe frequently ordered from us with great enthusiasm. Sweet Anne’s Produce, Green Circle Organics, Expressly Local, and Lemon Street Market kept our foods stocked on their shelves. Please, if you’ve got to buy, consider buying from them first to rest assure that your money continues to support our local economy and ecological values.
Taking down our home and leaving the farm had always been a real possibility, but still we invested in the experience. In a quick two years at Ironwood Farm, the Susquehanna Farm School established a holistic orchard, an edible hedge, a coppice grove, an array of perennial crops including a mushroom log production, and a garden of herbal plant medicine, as well as: pioneered a progressive permaculture certification process, taught a multitude of classes, hosted six full time interns, partnered with several local organizations, and established itself as a cornerstone of beyond organic ecological transition.
Living simply has been all but simple, far from easy, and largely exhausting. In this time of unavoidable change we have the opportunity to transition towards a more resilient sustainability.
In the immediate future Brandon and Abby have traded the open farmland for the great open. With projects at home already in the making for 2013, we will begin the new year going cross-country to see the milky-way, wild shores, and some great big trees.
Sincerely,
Brandon & Abby
Fall harvests!
Brandon with chains of apios americana.
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Abby with parsnips and ashwagandha.
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Susquehanna Farm School T-shirts! SOLD OUT
We've picked four of our favorite crops, illustrated in detail, and stuck them on a t-shirt!
Why? Education.
These are plants that are used on our farm for an array of purposes: as privacy screens, windbreaks, fertilizers, soil builders, pollinator and wildlife attractants, long keeping perennial foods, and healthful nutrition, as well as biodiversity. All proceeds were to go directly to putting more plants on the farm, but since we've lost the farm then all proceeds go to helping Abby and Brandon transition to the next step for Susquehanna Farm School. Thanks for the support!
*All t-shirts have a logo on the back between the shoulders that reads "Susquehanna Farm School: Beyond Organic"
Plant illustrations and t-shirt design by Mike Messmer (www.theartofmessmer.com), of our 2012 advanced internship. Great work, Mike!
$15 per t-shirt
$3 packaging and shipping
To order: please call or text Abby at 814-933-6646
Why? Education.
These are plants that are used on our farm for an array of purposes: as privacy screens, windbreaks, fertilizers, soil builders, pollinator and wildlife attractants, long keeping perennial foods, and healthful nutrition, as well as biodiversity. All proceeds were to go directly to putting more plants on the farm, but since we've lost the farm then all proceeds go to helping Abby and Brandon transition to the next step for Susquehanna Farm School. Thanks for the support!
*All t-shirts have a logo on the back between the shoulders that reads "Susquehanna Farm School: Beyond Organic"
Plant illustrations and t-shirt design by Mike Messmer (www.theartofmessmer.com), of our 2012 advanced internship. Great work, Mike!
$15 per t-shirt
$3 packaging and shipping
To order: please call or text Abby at 814-933-6646
Sunroot (a.k.a.Jerusalem Artichoke) - Not an artichoke and native to the eastern US, latin name Helianthus Tuberosus literally translates to sunroot. A native sunflower with edible tubers that store well. AVAILABLE in S,M,L,XL (Pink, Forest green, Sky blue)
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Stinging Nettles - a fantastic plant that mines the subsoil for nutrients, thus excellent as used for edible greens, tea, medicine, and an organic fertilizer. AVAILABLE in S, M, L, XL (Pink, Forest green, Sky blue)
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Gooseberry - a little known native berry plant full of juice, vitamins, and antioxidants. Corporate discrimination in the US almost destroyed this plant in the early 1800's, but England bred it into hundreds of healthful varieties. AVAILABLE S,M,L,XL (Forest green, Sky blue)
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Groundnut (a.k.a. hopniss or apios americana) - wonderful perennial vegetable that grows thick tubers in a long chain. It also fixes nitrogen in the soil. Try it in a cast iron pot on a woodstove in the middle of winter with venison! AVAILABLE S,M,L,XL (Forest green, Sky blue)
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A great wild harvest!
A great Autumn mushroom harvest at Rothrock State Forest: Maitake, Chicken of the Woods, Pearl Oyster, Reishi (from left to right). Also harvested: sweet fern, indian tobacco, st. john's wort, mountain ash, and barberry!
