May 12, 2012
Lazy B Farm Open House
We’re celebrating Moms today! Come to the farm and congratulate our mom’s and their new babies.
We will have 3 homestead tours throughout the day. Sign up for the time that best suits you and your family and come join us for a hands-on, educational tour of our farm. A typical schedule for our homestead tours includes a small classroom time to view some special farm items and then a walking tour of the farm. We’ll stop at the bee yard, the blacksmith, the spinner, the gardens, milk the goat and gather eggs from the chicken house.
Tour times are:
9-11am
12-2pm
3-5pm
While you’re visiting, stop by the farm store and pick up a special gift for your mom. All our items are home grown or home crafted and made right here in Georgia!
May 5, 2012
All Day Garden Workshop
“It’s so worth it! This really makes me want to start gardening!” Carol Hamilton
**Class is limited to 30
This workshop is designed to cover all the basics for a successful gardening season. There will be door prizes and drawings throughout the day, adding to the assortment of tools needed to start your own garden. A packet of information will be available for each workshop.
Lunch will be provided by the Lazy B Farm “chefs” using items from our own gardens.
Workshop Schedule:
8:45 am: Meet and Greet
9 am – 11: Square Foot Gardening
11:00 – 12:00 pm: Bugs!
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
** the Farm Store will be open during lunch
1 – 1:45pm: Vermiculture with Stephanie Kilroe
2 – 3:00pm: Hoop Houses
** Farm Store will be open after the workshop is concluded.
To attend this workshop and gather the “tools” for your own garden, register here.
Class Description
Square Foot Gardening
We’ll gather in the classroom and cover the basics of gardening, soil preparation and the technique of Square Foot Gardening. Together, we’ll construct a square foot garden, complete with plants.
Beneficial Insects
I love bugs and have realized how beneficial bugs can be for our garden…if you know the good ones from the bad ones. During this class, we’ll scour the garden and find “specimens” to bring back to the classroom. We’ll identify the bugs, whether they are beneficial or not, and how to “organically” get rid of the bad ones.
Vermiculture
Worms are a very important component of our gardening success. Stephanie Kilroe will share the benefits of composting with worms, how to start your own worm beds, and the ease of using compost tea in your garden.
Hoop Houses
You may have heard of hoop houses but what is the difference between a hoop house and a green house? What’s the benefit of a hoop house? How can I use them successfully in my yard?
We will discuss this and more in this session. Time permitting, we will construct a hoop house that will be perfect for any backyard.
“If you harvest 30 pounds of tomatoes at $2 per pound, that plant is worth $60. But it only cost $2.90 to buy the plant, a few cents for water and 15 cents for the fertilizer.” Thomas Bewick
What to Bring:
*Notebook and writing utensil if you’re the kind who likes to take notes. (There will be handouts for each workshop.)
* Boots and gardening gloves – you will be playing in the dirt.
* Extra clothes if you really like to get into your work.
* Coffee mug if you’re a coffee or tea drinker – helps us in our efforts to be good stewards of the environment
* Containers to carry home plants
* Water and snacks – there will be light breakfast items available in the morning
May 3, 2012
Knit and Spin
Knit and Spin is a group for all who are interested in fibers and the various skills associated with fibers. Bring your spinning wheel and join the circle. Do you knit or crochet? We’d love to have you join us in the relaxed atmosphere of yesteryears when women came together in community to be productive.
This group is open to young and old alike, all skill levels welcome.
April 21, 2012
Sheep to Shawl
Lazy B Farm: Sheep to Shawl, is an annual festival in historic Statham, about 20 minutes west of Athens. We’ll be shearing the Lazy B Farm sheep and an alpaca with electric shears and hand shears. There will be vendors with beautiful hand crafted items for sale. Demonstrations during the event – blacksmithing, woodturning, spinning, knitting, carding, beekeeping, dog pulling, the NE Tractor Club, and a children’s activity area. Our local farms will be there with produce and wares to sell. The Statham Farmers Market and the Statham Dog Park will be selling hamburgers and hot dogs, proceeds benefitting the market and dog park.
Come on out for a great agricultural family experience!
Schedule for the event:
10:00 am – gates open and demonstrations begin!
10:30 am – Shearing sheep with electric shears
11:30 am – Shearing an alpaca
12:30 pm – Shearing sheep with hand shears
1:15 pm – Grand Opening of the Statham Dog Park!
**Vendors and demonstrations will be available for the entire event. Come on out and join the fun!
April 5, 2012
Knit and Spin
Knit and Spin is a group for all who are interested in fibers and the various skills associated with fibers. Bring your spinning wheel and join the circle. Do you knit or crochet? We’d love to have you join us in the relaxed atmosphere of yesteryears when women came together in community to be productive.
This group is open to young and old alike, all skill levels welcome.
March 31, 2012
Survival Workshop for Boys
This is a brand new workshop offered here at the Lazy B Farm. This workshop will cover the basic skills required to survive in the out of doors. Our knowledgeable teacher, Butch, is self taught and has a wealth of knowledge and stories about his own use of wild plants and trees for medicinal and edible purposes.
This class is suitable for boys in grades 6th – 10th.
Our Basics workshop will cover:
Plant identification – poisonous and non-poisonous plants
Tree identification and uses
Shelter – how to build a shelter from tree limbs
Fishing pole construction and how to filet a fish
Fire building and fish frying
Purifying water
Schedule for the workshop:
8:45 – Arrival to Lazy B Farm
9:00 – Group gathers for introduction to Butch
9 – noon: Tree identification, shelter construction, plant identification
Noon: Lunch to be provided by Lazy B Farm
12:30 – 3:30: Construction of traps, fishing rod, fire building and preparation of fish
3:45 – end of session, pick up by parents
Items to bring:
Water bottle
Extra clothing
Towel
Notebook and pen
Register now for this exciting workshop.
March 16, 2012
Italian Cooking the Old World Way – LHG
Dee Brown, a member of our Ladies’ Homestead Gathering, has asked her grandmother, Eleanor Hunt, to come and share with us the skill behind true Italian cooking. We will learn how to make ravioli, gnocchi, and biscotti and a few other authentic Italian dishes.
The cost for this class will cover the ingredients to make these dishes.
Address for this event:
Be-Fit
60 East Jefferson Street
Hoschton Ga. 30548
Come and join us for learning, laughter, and some good eating!
Register here for this fun evening.
March 10, 2012
Egg-cellent Dishes with Anne-Marie
This unique cooking class is designed to help all those chicken owners who have an over abundance of eggs at one time or another.
Anne-Marie, a fantastic chef, will demonstrate several delicious egg dishes to help us get past the typical hard boiled egg and egg salad.
A few of the recipes on the menu: Eggs Benedict, Quiche, and Lemon Semi Friddo
To register for this tasty workshop, register here.
If you have attended our recent Chicken Workshop, there is a 10% discount for this class.
