From Woods to Farm: Practical Forest Products in Action

Name: From Woods to Farm: Practical Forest Products in Action
Start: 2025-11-08T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-08T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Fowl Play Farm & Miss Bee Haven

Schedule

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 09:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Fowl Play Farm & Miss Bee Haven | Pembroke, MA

We are very pleased to announce our next workshop on the farm:
From Woods to Farm: Practical Forest Products in Action
Join South Shore Permaculture instructors Todd Breitenstein and Stephen B. Sovick along with Wildland Timber owner and master tree feller George Thibeault for a look into ancient methods of wood preservation, soil building and soil fertility methods through creating biochar and practical agroforestry techniques to develop silvopasture on the 10 acre, Historic DeLorenzo Farm in Duxbury.
Special thanks to DCRs ForestsWork Michael Downey for making this workshop available!
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2025
Time:9 AM to 2 PM
Location: Fowl Play Farm & Miss Bee Haven, LLC
370 Summer St, Duxbury, MA,02332
Why Attend?
Discover practical, low-cost ways to turn local timber into tools for resilience on your farm & forest. This hands-on workshop will show you how to:
✅ Preserve fenceposts naturally using the Japanese Shou-SugiBan (Yakisugi) charring method
✅ Produce biochar from local timber and explore its applications in soil health, composting, and livestock systems
✅ How Silvopasture is applied at the forest level.
What You Will Experience
• Live demonstration of fencepost charring using a roll-through system
• Step-by-step biochar kiln operation (loading, burning, inoculating, application)
• Expert-led discussions: Why Biochar? Why Char Fenceposts?
• Forest and Silvopasture walk
• Q&A on applying biochar and charred posts to real farm systems
• Lunch: light farm-sourced boxed lunch included
FREE Event funded through ForestsWork
Register: Space is limited. Please contact Mike Downey at 413-212-3039 or
[email protected] to pre-register.