Technical Courses Archives • Groundswell Center

Seed-Saving: A Peaceful Resistance

By Alexas Esposito | September 17, 2019

On Sunday, September 8th, a group of folks convened at Bloodnick Farms, in Apalachin, NY to attend a workshop led by Lisa Bloodnick called “Seed-saving: A Peaceful Resistance”. Luckily, the weather held out, although we learned that any amount of wind is helpful when threshing and winnowing some seeds. But before we get to the…

Groundswell Center & Hammerstone host Carpentry Workshop for Women

By Adriana Pickett-Becerra | August 13, 2018 |

Last Friday Groundswell Center and #Hammerstone School of Carpentry for Women teamed up to teach a free workshop to women who helped build a new produce wash-station at the Groundswell Incubator Farm. Thanks to funding from the Park Foundation, the Legacy Foundation and the Community Foundation of Tompkins County Women’s Fund, we were able to offer this…

Building Perennial Raised Beds

By Natalie | April 16, 2018 |

Participants arrived to the Building Permanent Raised Beds workshop, at the Incubator Farm and taught by Sean Dembroski of Edible Acres, from as close as Ecovillage and as far as Massachusetts. As we gathered, Sean quickly gathered some scrap wood and banged together an A-frame tool. Our goal as a class was to start with…

Grafting and Pruning in the February Sun at Indian Creek Farm

By Kate | March 11, 2017 |

By Kate Cardona, Groundswell Equity, Outreach and Course Coordinator On Saturday, February 18th Groundswell hosted a Grafting and Pruning Workshop at Indian Creek Farm! It was a strange, gorgeous 60 degree and sunny February day, and we were glad to spend much of it outside getting hands-on experience with tree pruning. The workshop began with…

A Cutting Edge Return to Old Traditions: Farming with Draft Animal Power

By Karlem | April 2, 2015

New farmers, returning to old traditions and using cutting edge knowledge, learn to “think like a horse” and farm with draft animals. With the rising cost of fuel and farm equipment, more farmers are turning towards a centuries old tradition: farming with draft animals. Even though farming with draft animals is a seven thousand year…

High Tunnels Year Round!

By Staff | November 13, 2014

Groundswell, CCE and local Mentor Farmers are teaming up to offer a new season-long course on growing, managing and marketing high tunnel crops! An Introduction to High Tunnels Workshopwill be held on MONDAY, February 9, from 1-4 PM at Good Life Farm in Interlaken. Judson Reid, Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops Specialist and growers Melissa…