Fundamentals of Chainsaw Use
This day-long workshop is designed for participants with no prior experience in using a power chainsaw. This is where you start if you’d like to learn more about adopting a chainsaw into your woodland work toolbox.
Fundamentals of Chainsaw Use
This day-long workshop is designed for participants with no prior experience in using a power chainsaw. This is where you start if you’d like to learn more about adopting a chainsaw into your woodland work toolbox.
Practical Farm Woodland Management
This immersive, hands-on workshop is designed to help you think through a variety of ideas to manage your farm woodlands, not just for timber, but as a thriving, healthy ecological system.
Hand Tools for Woodland Work
This two-day workshop offers guided training for the selection, care, maintenance, and use of different types of axes, crosscut saws, hedging tools, log handling tools, and other edge tools associated with processing woodland material into useful products.
Green Woodworking Series: Spoon Carving
Our first green woodworking series launches with a day of greenwood spoon carving from a freshly felled tree and ends with a hand-carved cooking spoon.
Chainsaw Skills Training: Introduction to Chainsaw Safety and Directional Felling
This intensive two-day training introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, modern tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
Chainsaw Skills Training: Introduction to Chainsaw Safety and Directional Felling
This intensive two-day training introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, modern tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
Logs to Lumber
This one-day workshop is designed for individuals interested in learning how to utilize a farm tractor forestry winch to haul timber from the woods and to operate a portable sawmill to turn logs into lumber.
Chainsaw Skills Training: Introduction to Chainsaw Safety and Directional Felling - Women Only
This intensive two-day training for women only introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, modern tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
Chainsaw Skills Workshop: Level I (Copy)
This intensive two-day hands-on training is appropriate for farm woodland owners and farm workers interested in advancing their power chainsaw use to include felling difficult trees, bucking stems to maximize value, extraction of logs with a farm tractor and forestry winch, and removal of storm damaged-and-downed trees. *This advanced course requires previous experience either by successfully completing a Level I workshop or permission of the instructor.
When: Monday, December 11 and Tuesday, December 12, 9 am - 5 pm each day. Bring your own lunch and beverages.
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY 40075
Chainsaw Skills Workshop: Level I
This intensive two-day hands-on training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw. The course introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, professional tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
When: Friday, December 1 and Saturday, December 2, 9 am - 5 pm each day. Bring your own lunch and beverages.
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY 40075
Chainsaw Skills Workshop: Level I
This intensive two-day hands-on training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw. The course introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, professional tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
When: Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19, 9 am - 5 pm each day. Bring your own lunch and beverages.
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY 40075
Kentucky Arts & Letters Day
The Agrarian Literary League presents Kentucky Arts and Letters Day.
The Berry Center campus
Saturday, November 11
Chainsaw Skills Workshop: Level I
This intensive two-day hands-on training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw. The course introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, professional tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
When: Saturday, November 4 and Sunday, November 5, 9 am - 5 pm each day. Bring your own lunch and beverages.
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY 40075
Chainsaw Skills Workshop: Level I
This intensive two-day hands-on training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw. The course introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, professional tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
When: Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28, 9 am - 5 pm each day. Bring your own lunch and beverages.
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY 40075
Our Home Place Meat Field Day
Our Home Place Meat will host a three-hour field day where local experts will educate and guide you on cattle price insurance, how to feed and finish cattle, and how to supplement your farm income with your woods.
Lunch is included and will be served at the end of the event. This is also a great opportunity to learn more about The Berry Farm and Forest Institute and upcoming classes/ workshops. Get your tickets here.
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY 40075
Cost: $15
Our Home Place Meat Beef Bash
OHPM will launch our two key products: Rose Beef and Berry Beef. Local chefs who share our vision for strong agricultural communities will prepare and present “small bites” that highlight the meat’s distinctive quality. Knowledgeable staff will be on hand to discuss the Center’s essential work in land-conserving farming and community-conserving economics. Ticket price includes event entry, food, non-alcoholic beverages, and live music. A cash bar will also be available. Get your tickets here.
Chainsaw Skills Workshop: Level I
This intensive two-day hands-on training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw. The course introduces basic chainsaw maintenance, saw chain sharpening, personal protective equipment, professional tree felling techniques, limbing, and bucking trees to length.
When: Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8, 9 am - 5 pm each day. Bring your own lunch and beverages.
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY 40075
Sarah Hall Lecture
Agrarian Literary League Event
Sarah Hall discusses her book, Sown in the Stars.
Heritage House, 137 S. Main Street, New Castle, KY 40050
Tree of Heaven Workshop
Tree of Heaven Control Workshop
What participants will learn:
How to identify this invasive species
Using your head before using poison
Means of eradication and why it matters
Where: The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY
Cost: FREE
For questions and assistance, please contact Shannon Boyd, Program Coordinator: shannonboyd@berrycenter.org
