Cochrane Family Farm is a teaching farm offering tours, speaking engagements, workshops, and apprenticeship opportunities. Our team brings over 60 years of combined experience in program development, facilitation, and delivery (Frank 30+ years, Lisa 25+ years, Julie 7+ years).
This is our most popular workshop and a game changer for those wanting to see the rewards from their labor. Get off to your best start, by learning how to make the right growing medium, when to start seeds, how to get them to germinate and grow. Discover how to avoid diseases and other common problems, how to keep transplants healthy and happy, what is needed to get started and much more.
Interactive Herbal Salve Making Workshop Sun Feb 15th 9:30 - 11:30am
This workshop will include demonstrations of salves and oils being made from start to completion and covering everything from ingredient choice to equipment needed, bottling, labelling, storage. There will be option to purchase a salve making starter kit which will include local beeswax, lip balm tubes, 50ml salve jars, 50ml amber bottles and step by step guide sheets.
This is our most popular workshop and a game changer for those wanting to see the rewards from their labor. Get off to your best start, by learning how to make the right growing medium, when to start seeds, how to get them to germinate and grow. Discover how to avoid diseases and other common problems, how to keep transplants healthy and happy, what is needed to get started and much more.
This workshop will look at how to build and maintain different types of gardens. Discover how to have less work and higher yields, while learning what materials to use, how to choose site locations, amend soil, watering techniques, select crops to plant, pitfalls to avoid, pest control, tips, and much more.
Take an in-depth look at Hugelkultur in action and its many benefits. Learn how to work with mother nature not against her.
This workshop will look at how to build and maintain different types of gardens. Discover how to have less work and higher yields, while learning what materials to use, how to choose site locations, amend soil, watering techniques, select crops to plant, pitfalls to avoid, pest control, tips, and much more.
Take an in-depth look at Hugelkultur in action and its many benefits. Learn how to work with mother nature not against her.
Extend your growing season on both ends. This workshop will show you how we extend our growing season by months using protective barriers, lay of the land, cold shelters and tunnels or greenhouses and how much you can produce from a small hoophouse or greenhouse. Learn what to look for when constructing a family size greenhouse from the ground up. Material choices, site considerations, dos and don'ts, learn how to storm proof and how to overcome pests, humidity, high heat, disease and much more.
Extend your growing season on both ends. This workshop will show you how we extend our growing season by months using protective barriers, lay of the land, cold shelters and tunnels or greenhouses and how much you can produce from a small hoophouse or greenhouse. Learn what to look for when constructing a family size greenhouse from the ground up. Material choices, site considerations, dos and don'ts, learn how to storm proof and how to overcome pests, humidity, high heat, disease and much more.
Great way to get into medicinal herbs. Here you will learn how to identify, grow, wild forage, harvest, dry, store and use medicinal herbs economically. Make your own herbal teas, mother oils, and tinctures. We will look at the tools and tricks that will improve your end results. Enjoy an informative tour of our herb gardens and samples of our products.
Great way to get into medicinal herbs. Here you will learn how to identify, grow, wild forage, harvest, dry, store and use medicinal herbs economically. Make your own herbal teas, mother oils, and tinctures. We will look at the tools and tricks that will improve your end results. Enjoy an informative tour of our herb gardens and samples of our products.
Do you feel as passionate about saving your own seeds as we do? Our family has been saving seeds for over 40 years. This is a great course for learning how to plan, dry, test and save seed successfully. We will cover roguing, population genetics, control methods, variables, traits and look at different methods of saving and processing for various seed types. Attending this workshop will lay the foundation for your own seed saving journey.
This is where some of the most exciting things happen. Here we take you on one of the many educational gardening adventures that we offer. All our on-farm events include delicious snacks, coffee and various teas. We can easily fit groups up to 25 people in comfort. Small groups, hands on, immersed in the topic and seeing it in actual operation. These workshops will give you the knowledge and the tools for you to build on. (Scroll down to see upcoming workshops & events)
From spring to fall, we offer tours of our farm, showing how we integrate our herbal business, seed business, and vegetables to offer a diverse selection of products all coming from the farm and complimenting each other in numerous ways. Tours are typically 1 to 2 hours long and outdoor picnic area is available. For more in-depth adventures and information call or email us. This is a great opportunity for schools and groups to get a look at a diverse farm and agribusiness combined. No pets, registered service dogs only. No smoking on the farm.
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