Biodynamic Farmer Jeff Poppens host the Local Food Summit Dec 2-4
December 2-4 2016 | Tennessee State University’s Downtown Avon Williams Campus
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($125 includes meals & all workshops)
Featuring Joel Salatin!
Sponsored by Barefoot Farmer, LLC and TSU, it will feature Nashville’s best chefs offering delicious, locally grown organic meals during a full day of educational workshops, networking, and the celebration of another great growing season.
For more information visit https://tnlocalfood.com/
Michaelmas Festival Sept 28th 4-8:00 Features a workshop with Jeff Poppen
This event will be held at Six Boots, a local farm and growers collective and CSA , located at 4506 Old Hickory Blvd Nashville 37218 in Bells Bend.
Everyone is warmly invited to a celebration of Michaelmas centered around the relationship of nature, the animal kingdom and the human kingdom.
4:00-6:00 Jeff Poppen, THE BAREFOOT FARMER, and founding member of the Anthroposophic Branch of Middle Tennessee will inform of the importance, and demonstrate the preparation of the horn manure. We will include the Michaelmas readings while we are preparing the ground and filling the horns.
7-8. Pot luck supper.
This will be a hands on experience rain or shine. Please come prepared in casual clothes and boots/shoes and your own chair for the farm. Snacks will be provided at the beginning of the event.
Event is sponsored by the ANTHROPOSOPHIC BRANCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE For more information please contact Barbara Bittles at blbittles@comcast.net or Cathy Green at cgreen@grasslandaquatics.com
Biodynamic Celebration 2016 September 23-25, 2016
Information and registration is http://barefootfarmer.com/biodynamic-celebration-2016/
Details: The conference will be held at a new location this year! Directions are here.
For general inquiries, please email: Jeff at barefootfarmer.com, or coreekaleseed at yahoo.com, or call 615-699-4676.
This year’s theme is
The Four Kingdoms:
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, and Human.
Weekend workshops will explore examples of the kingdoms as they are expressed on a farm, as well as how we, as growers, can help create a four part harmony.
It is a special delight to be hosting our long time compatriots Hugh Lovel and Shabari Bird to celebrate the 30th year of gathering biodynamic and organic growers and enthusiasts throughout the Southeast.
Torin Finser Speaking December 5-6, 2015
Torin Finser, the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America, will speak December 5, 2015 at 7:00 pm at Linden Waldorf School in the Manse building first floor at 3201 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37215 (Hillsboro & Sharondale), phone (615) 354-0270.
He will speak on his most recent book, The Second Classroom, all about the parent/school relationship. Please come join in the conversation. We will have hot cider and seasonal treats to share. Torin will have copies of The Second Classroom for sale.
He will also speak December 6, 2015 at 2:00 pm at the Blair School of Music at the Martha Bartles Studio before the Alfred Bartles Tribute concert. The address is 2400 Blakemore Ave, Nashville, TN 37212, phone (615) 322-7651. (more…)
