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[Steve Gabriel <sfg53 AT cornell.edu>]

Upcoming Short Courses in Forest Ecology and Fungi Cultivation and Foraging

 

Located in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of New York, Wellspring Forest Farm & School serves as a living classroom to connect students to the forested landscape.

 

Our classes are experiential and hands-on, giving students real skills and knowledge and utilizing our living farm classroom and local old growth forests as teachers.

 

Past students often comment that our classes help them see the woods from a whole new perspective. We don't teach only skills, but how to better foster a long-term relationship with the forest.

 

Learn more about the farm and school in a short video

 

 

Forest Ecology & Management

August 18 - 20

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with Mike Demunn (Da’ Ha’ da’ nyah) and Steve Gabriel

 

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Learn forest ecology and management techniques for eastern woodlands from Farming the Woods co-author Steve Gabriel and renowned elder forester Mike Demunn. Visit local old growth and heritage forests and farms and practice tree ID, stand assessment, marking, and thinning techniques. Leave the course more confident in your ability to assess and manage woodlots.

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Topics Covered:

·      History of forest exploitation

·      Principles in woodland stewardship

·      Native perspectives on the forest

·      Tools to measure forest and tree health

·      The role of wildlife in the woods

·      Ecology of Old Growth

·      Selecting trees for thinning

 

$300 includes local foods lunch each day and free access to our online course

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SIGN UP BY JULY 21 and receive $50 off

Sign up along with the fungi course and save $100.

$30 to camp onsite, or stay in our yurt on the farm.

 

 

 

Fungi Cultivation & Foraging

September 15 - 17

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with Olga Tzogas and Steve Gabriel

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Explore the wondrous world of fungi and learn how to grow and forage mushrooms with Farming the Woods co-author Steve Gabriel and Olga Tzogas Smugtown Mushrooms.

 

During this 3-day intensive course participants will identify wild mushrooms and learn tree ID and forest ecology, inoculate logs, straw, and grain, learn low-tech propagation techniques, and of course, cook and eat mushrooms.

 

Participants will build their skills in mushroom identification, cultivation, and propagation and leave the course equipped with the knowledge and tools.

 

Topics Covered:

·      Lifecycle of Fungi

·      Ecology; where to find mushrooms in the woods

·      Safe and ethical wild mushroom harvesting

·      Shiitake and others on logs, stumps, and woodchips

·      Oyster on straw, coffee grounds, and sawdust

·      Making your own mushrooms medicine

·      Low-Tech methods to propagate and grow

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$300 includes local foods lunch each day and free access to our online course

​

SIGN UP BY JULY 21 and receive $50 off

Sign up along with the fungi course and save $100.

$30 to camp onsite, or stay in our yurt on the farm.

 

                                        

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Steve Gabriel

Agroforestry Extension Specialist

Editor, Small Farm Quarterly

Cornell Small Farms Program

sfg53 AT cornell.edu

Websites:

smallfarms.cornell.edu

CornellMushrooms.org