Animals like chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, and sheep can  contribute greatly to our urban homesteads by creating compost, reducing pests, providing food, and being friends.

In this skillshare + talk, Dylan Kennedy generously shares his insights and experience on how to integrate food producing animals into our daily lives. We will visit one or more example sites in the neighborhood and consider local regulations on animal keeping.
Dylan Kennedy is a lead organizer of the Heritage Food Festival in KY. He has spent over fifteen years in farm management as he pursues his passion for agro-ecology and a drive to build sustainable businesses and communities in tandem with regenerating ecosystems. His experience encompasses many disciplines, including permaculture, biodynamics, and Holistic Management with the Savory Institute.  Dylan is most in his element working with land managers as a connector of ideas and resources, or on his own small farm in Jabez Kentucky. 

Event starts at 824 Enright Ave (Growing Value Nursery) at 12PM and includes walking to neighboring sites. $30. Pay ahead of time online or bring cash or check to the event. Questions? Email cpinursery@gmail.com. Outdoor events are subject to weather conditions and may be rescheduled if needed.

This workshop, lead by Ande “The Elf” Schewe, will guide hands on fence weaving using only local plant materials.  These valuable local living plant friends will keep growing and supplying materials for millennia with considerate land tending techniques, such as coppicing and pollarding.

• Natural fences break down slowly (10+ years) into living soil -- no trash, no toxins, no energy expensive manufacturing or transport.

• Weaving fences for beauty with community and a playful mindset  brings rejuvenation to the land and community.

You Will Learn: How to identify, harvest, prepare, and weave with local plants.  

You will feel: the communal and ancestral connection of weaving arts

Event takes place at 824 Enright Ave (Growing Value Nursery). $40. Pay ahead of time online or bring cash or check to the event. Questions? Email cpinursery@gmail.com. Outdoor events are subject to weather conditions and may be rescheduled if needed.

Acorns are a wild, abundant,  nutritious, and free food at our  feet this time of year! The Oak trees that the acorns fall from have been held  sacred by humans for  hundreds of thousands of years, literally all of  us have ancestors that ate acorns. Let’s open that portal back up by becoming  acorn eaters ourselves! 

Come on over to Growing Value Nursery at !!!!NEW LOCATION!!!! 537 Enright Ave. 45205 (private home) Saturday December 13th from 10-1pm to learn how to process acorns into flour and  how to cook with that flour. Then we will feast  on Acorn pancakes together! 

Howie and Allison will have stations setup to  walk you through the entire process. Suggested donation of $25.

Fences for Connection! At this special skill workshop, Ande Schewe will teach you natural fence making using the wattle weave technique.

You’ll learn:

• Hands-on weaving techniques and knowledge of the best natural materials

• The skill of repurposing for beautiful, sustainable design

• A zero-waste building method (no trash, no toxins)

The benefit:

• Create fences that decompose into living soil

• Deepen your connection with nature and community

Growing Value Nursery, 824 Enright Ave. $40. Registration required.