• Foraging 101 (in-person)

    Avon Free Public Library 281 Country Club Rd., Avon, CT, United States

    Foraging 101– The Do’s and Don’ts for getting out and finding all that it has to offer This is an introductory class on learning how to forage, specifically in Connecticut and New England. This class will go over where and when to find forageable items, what to do with them, and safety tips. We will […]

  • Pot Herbs, Sallads and Roots”: Kitchen Gardens in Early America (in-person)

    Avon Free Public Library 281 Country Club Rd., Avon, CT, United States

    “Pot Herbs, Sallads and Roots”: Kitchen Gardens in Early America is a program defining the role played by kitchen gardens in the lives of New Englanders 1790 to 1850.  Using documentation from  Samuel Deane’s book, The New England Farmer (Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1790), with additional 19th-century publications and landscape illustrations, and the re-created gardens at  Old […]