Organic Growers School is offering the 1st annual Harvest Conference for backyard and urban growers & homesteaders on Saturday, September 6th, 2014 at AB Tech, Main Campus in Asheville, NC.
This long-awaited fall event features all the popularity of the Spring Conference with a focus on season extension, home cooking, fermentation, preservation, fall & winter growing, self-reliance, homestead skills, seed saving, composting, herbal medicine, and wild ideas.
The conference features Janisse Ray, award-winning writer, naturalist, and activist is author of five books of literary nonfiction, including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, and The Seed Underground, as keynote and special guest speaker.
Registration is $40 for an entire day of classes on topics such as fall & winter growing, fermentation, preservation, self-reliance, homestead skills and wild ideas, as well as evening keynote address. Organic Growers School is well-known to offer down-to-earth advice on growing and sustainable living, while remaining affordable and accessible.
A day of Pre-Conference workshops take place at Warren Wilson College on September 5th with half and full day workshops:
– Speaking of Nature: Place-Based Creative Writing with Janisse Ray 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM,
– Magic Drinks: Super Natural Sodas & Fermented Brewswith Marc Williams 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM,
– Wild Abundance: Reliance on the Foods Around Uswith Natalie Bogwalker2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
– Wild Mushrooms: A Magical Mystery Tour with Alan Muskat9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Class offered again from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.