Farm & Forest Institute Calendar
Reading in Place: Ellen Davis’s Agrarian Reading of the Bible
Short Course The Berry Center Farm, via Zoom or Independent Study. A fitting companion to the 3rd Annual Wendell Berry Lecture, which takes place Sept 10, from 6-7:30pm
Two Henry County neighbors will lead the discussion: Dr. John Inscore Essick, co-Pastor of the Port Royal Baptist Church and Professor of Church History and Director of the Rural Ministry Program at BSK Theological Seminary, and Dr. Leah Bayens, Director of The Berry Center’s Farm and Forest Institute.
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.
Readings in Agriculture Begins
The Agrarian Voices Study Fall Session begins on Thursday, Oct 15 and meets each Thursday through November 12. It culminates on Saturday, November 14, with Kentucky Arts & Letters Day at The Berry Center in New Castle. In addition to large and small group discussion sessions, the course features distinct opportunities to interact with agrarian writers at The Berry Center’s annual Kentucky Arts and Letters Day, featuring readings by the Commonwealth’s finest writers.
Hand Tools for Woodland Work
This two-day workshop is ideal for anyone interested in working in the woods with traditional forestry hand tools.
Green Woodworking Series: Spoon Carving
Our first green woodworking series launches with a day of greenwood spoon carving from a freshly felled tree.
Chainsaw Skills Training: Introduction to Chainsaw Safety & Directional Tree Felling
This intensive two-day training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw.
Chainsaw Skills Training: Introduction to Chainsaw Safety & Directional Tree Felling
This intensive two-day training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw.
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 & Directional Tree Felling (Women’s Session)
This intensive two-day training is appropriate for any woodland owner or farm worker operating a power chainsaw. *Women’s session
Reading in Place Short Course: The Memory of Old Jack
To follow the Discussion session is the Humanities Field Day for Reading in Place study of The Memory of Old Jack. You’ll gather with a thoughtful group of neighbors near and far to read, discuss, and walk about in the landscape of The Memory of Old Jack. We’ll key into the rhythms and creatureliness of Jack’s work life with a short demonstration with The Berry Center’s team of Grey Percherons, and we’ll physically read the pastures, waterways, and woodlands through Jack’s eyes.
*Registration is required. July 20 Discussion Session + July 24 Humanities Field Day are included in registration.
Reading in Place Short Course: The Memory of Old Jack
Discussion session (hybrid, in-person & zoom options) for this Reading in Place short course. Whether it is your first or your fifth time reading the novel, you’ll gather with a thoughtful group of neighbors near and far to read, discuss, and walk about in the landscape of The Memory of Old Jack.
*Registration is required. July 20 Discussion Session + July 24 Humanities Field Day are included in registration.