Join this pack basket workshop and make a child’s size Abenaki pack basket for your little one!
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Sterling acknowledges that the land on which we gather—places now known as Vermont and Kentucky—are the traditional and unceded territories of several indigenous peoples: the Abenaki in the North and the Shawnee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Osage people to the South. We also learn in-and-from a range of landscapes that belong to other indigenous peoples.
As we seek deep reciprocal relationships with nature, we respect and honor the place-based and cultural wisdom of indigenous ancestors and contemporaries. Words of acknowledgement and intention are just a first step. We must match them with acts of respect and repair.
Sterling College’s Office of Continuing Education is offering full tuition funding to military veterans who attend its agroecological farming and craft food production courses. The continuing education courses are open to all learners and aim to sustain healthy working landscapes, nourish communities, and support food...
Food waste isn't good anywhere, but food waste on farms (i.e., food loss) is a major missed opportunity. Excess food production yields environmental harms and represents missed opportunities for farm viability, community resilience, and nourished bodies. Spend an afternoon with Salvation Farms founder Theresa Snow...
Fern Steficek '19 is quoted (and pictured!) in this week's New York Times feature about farmers getting priced out in the Hudson Valley. "In 2020, Fern Steficek set out to raise sheep and grow plants for natural dyes in the Hudson Valley. She began searching...
Our food systems are designed to commodify, not to nourish. Want to learn and cultivate something better? Check out Food Systems Thinking, a fully remote and asynchronous class from Continuing Education at Sterling College. Learn more: https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/food-systems-thinking
Often forgotten in the realm of textiles, mushrooms have long been used as natural dyes, yielding some of nature's most vibrant colors. Learn to use fungi to create beautiful, vibrant, and nontoxic dyes perfect for any natural fiber. We will spend Saturday in the forest,...
Meet Victoria (she/her), a current student majoring in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and our Senior Work Program Admission Ambassador. One thing she loves about Sterling is the ability to shape your experience to best suit your own needs: what classes you take, what you...
Led by @joefassler, deputy editor for @TheCounter , Writing the Wrongs: Food & Environmental Writing course begins on 4/4. Thanks to a Sterling family and @penguinrandom, we are able to offer a tuition-free Diverse Voices Fellowship. https://t.co/NzXZXxjJwj https://t.co/w8oMTuWU30
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Gear Repair and Design Course! Participants will learn skills such as: hand and machine sewing, field repair techniques, pattern design, material selection, and gear production. Learn More: https://t.co/vWgpzgdek2 https://t.co/XT4KRETEdP
The Food Resilience and Conservation workshop is geared towards those who operate and labor on farms and want to avoid food loss, those who work in food systems,, those working to reduce food loss/waste, and anyone interested in building local resilience. https://t.co/lZutw3CFSn https://t.co/x1DFhozztg
