Eat local year round: Learn to grow. . . then enjoy and preserve summer’s bounty!

For 2012 Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center offers an exciting and practical set of gardening and cooking classes to help you grow and enjoy local food.

Take a look at the workshops and classes below. Most classes fill early, so for best selection don’t delay! Sign up now online, or stop by the farm to sign up!

Sign up for our email list on the left and you’ll always be in the know.

Coming soon: A complete list of cooking and gardening classes at Cedar Circle Farm in 2012!

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Beginning Farmer Workshops

Check in often to learn more about Beginning Farmer Workshops in 2012, or sign up for our mailing list on the left side of this page.

Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center hosts, organizes, and co-sponsors workshops for beginning farmers, usually one per summer.

In 2011 we:

• Hosted a farm tour and presentation featuring farm operations manager, Luke Joanis, who shared his systems for charting and projecting field plans with participants in the UVM New Farmer Project.
• Farm manager, KateDuesterberg, served as a mentor to aspiring farmers through the UVM’s New Farmer Project.
• Our farm and systems were featured in UVM’s ‘Across the Fence’ series on the topic of Food Safety and Agritourism. Watch the clip.
• We hosted an agricultural exchange student from Haiti, Ronel LeFranc, as he worked to develop skills and models for sustainable farming to bring back to his home country. Watch his video.
• Farm manager, Will Allen, led a tour of the farm, and farm kitchen manager Alison Baker led a discussion for dietetic interns as a part of their symposium for new students from UVM, UNH, and Keene State University.
• Farm production manager, Megan Baxter, led a presentation at the New England Fruit & Vegetable Conference titled ‘Tools for Efficient Post Harvest Handling’.
• Farm education coordinator, Cat Buxton, and kitchen manager Alison Baker, led a presentation at the Farm Based Education Association Conference titled ‘Integrating Nutrition and Farm Based Education in to Farm Events and Activities’.
• Farm education coordinator Cat Buxton teamed up with local educators to lead two presentations at the New Hampshire Farm To School Conference titled ‘Down On The Farm - Engaging Students in Agriculture’ and ‘Growing Your Farm To School Program’.

In 2010 we:

• Hosted a food-safety workshop in collaboration with University of Vermont Extension. The workshop was designed to inform farmers who are concerned about food safety and GAP requirements but do not plan to get GAP certification.
• Hosted professional development farm tours for two visiting conference groups: The Promise of Place conference for educators and the Women in Sustainable Agriculture Network conference for farmers.
• Donated a spreadsheet we designed to NOFA-VT to use for their On-Farm Energy workshops. The worksheet [available upon request] is a first step to an energy audit, and will help farmers collect data on all types of energy users on the farm, enabling easier identification of low-hanging fruit and priority improvements.

In 2009 we:

• Hosted a compost workshop for farmers, funded by a SARE speaker grant, with Tom Gilbert of Highfield’s Compost Institute in Hardwick.
• Were one of four host farms on the NOFA-VT On-Farm Energy tour which highlighted farms across Vermont with innovative alternative energy strategies or components.

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Cedar Circle Farm’s Class and Event Cancellation Policy

Classes will be cancelled if there are less than four participants signed up the Monday before the class. If we cancel a class or an event, you will be fully refunded. If you cancel eight days ahead we’ll refund your money in full. If you cancel seven days ahead or less, we’ll give you half of the price back.

Don’t let a good class get canceled, sign up early!

Photos by Cedar Circle Farm Crew