Author name: Dawn Turner

The Patterson School Foundation will welcome ASU professor and experienced homesteader Carol Coulter on Saturday, December 3rd, Noon – 3pm . Join us as one of the high country’s best farm business managers teaches “Laying the Foundation for Your Business: Knowing Your Numbers”! This one-time workshop will give insight into networking, marketing, and product selection. …

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Only 4 tickets remain for our October 22nd Mushroom foray with Ken Crouse, mycologist extraordinaire! Learn about the great diversity of medicinal and edible fungi in Southern Appalachia!  Tickets $50 ~ Available on Eventbrite 

Please join the Patterson School Incubator Farm Program on Saturday, June 25th as we welcome Thomas Cooper for his first class in a two part series on Appalachian Herbal Medicine. In this class you will have the opportunity to learn about plant identification, wildcrafting, and how to create your own teas and tinctures. Click here …

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Be a part of the solution! Enhance crop productivity, build soil health, and fight climate change with biochar. Biochar provides a means of turning waste biomass into an organic soil amendment that can stimulate the soil food web, increase water and nutrient retention, increase crop production, and build soil-based carbon to fight climate change. In …

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