What Kinds of Workshops Do We Put On?
CFI offers a variety of workshops throughout the year with topics covering garden planning, planting, harvesting, and food preparation. We seek to provide hands-on opportunities to build wellness, knowledge, and skills in the garden and kitchen. Examples of a few of our past workshops include fruit tree pruning and grafting, seed saving, seasonal cooking, food preservation, cover crops, and season extension techniques.
Community Gardeners and CFI members receive workshop updates by email. The general public can learn about workshops on our events calendar or on social media. For most workshops, we invite a donation on a sliding scale to attend.
Share Your Expertise
Our workshops are peer to peer, meaning that we recruit community members to host them. We love to facilitate the sharing of unique expertise and how it relates to the Appalachian region. If you have a workshop suggestion or are interested in leading your own workshop, please contact us.
Upcoming Workshops
Follow us on Facebook or view the calendar below for our list of upcoming workshops and updates on changes in time or location!
Take your gardening to the next level and plan your planting to save seeds for next season. Some crops and varieties require special attention and particular planting. Saving your own seeds help to adapt the seeds to your region, your climate, and your desired tastes! Learn the ins and outs with seed saving expert, Susan Young, and become even more self garden sufficient.
This will be held at the first shelter house towards Strouds Run State Park (the Bulldog Shelter House, NOT near the "beach" area).
CFI workshops are open to the public, free for CFI members, and $5 for non-members.
Learn to make a small scale biogas generator from common upcycled and off-the-shelf materials for making methane cooking fuel from food waste and manure. It's easier than you think!! Held at Squeaky Duck Farmstead by Erin Hogan and Kyle Look.
See photo about parking information. Carpooling is greatly encouraged!!
CFI workshops are open to the public, free for CFI members, and $5 for non members.
Get the most out of your small space by planting strategically and using the space you have. Join experinced square food gardener, Kathy McCorkle, and get your garden growing!
This is held at the OSU Extension Office of Athens County next to the fairgrounds and behind the Athens County Health Departmet.
Workshops are open to the public, free for CFI members, and $5 for non members.
Learn about rotational grazing of animals to heal the land, build bio-diversity, and feed the whole farm.
Shawn and Beth Dougherty have spent 20 years transforming the Sow’s Ear Farm and Pottery, and a neighboring monastery, from land “not suitable for agriculture” into rich, diverse, sustainable farms that provide almost all of what their family and farm animals eat (as well as much of what the Franciscan sisters eat), while growing fertility, resilience and a vibrant rural culture.
Held at Solid Ground Farm. Workshops are open to the public, free for CFI members, and $5 for non-members.
