Foraging & Fermenting    Join us Saturday, April 26th from 1 to 3 pm at the Dudley Farm in North Guilford for a class on Foraging and Fermenting! CT Foraging Club founder Amy Demers and forager and chef Vinny Crotta will be co-teaching this class.   Come learn how to positively identify edible and medicinal […]

  The Dudley Farm is excited to welcome back award winning and prolific Mashpee Wampanoag artist, poet, and author Robert Peters on Saturday, May 31. He will share his art and read from his latest children’s book, Big Baby—the story of how a village cared for the legendary Wampanoag giant Maushop as a baby. Robert’s […]

Come to the Barn for some old time storytelling with Carolyn Stearns and music by Joe Flood. Spinning Tales is a free family event. Carolyn Stearns is the kind of storyteller who roamed New England towns 200 years ago. Her family tales of Revolutionary ships lost at sea, the man who painted Lincoln and the […]

  Join us as North Branford resident Courtney Cucinotta shares her knowledge about the traditional Indigenous use of herbs and herbal remedies. A Certified Clinical Herbalist and member of the Indigenous Nipmuc Tribe of Northeastern Connecticut, Courtney has been researching and using traditional plant remedies for more than thirty years. She has studied under many […]

This presentation, tasting, and hands-on workshop will explore what we can learn about people’s lives in the past by making and tasting the bread that they ate. We’ll sample and reflect on “breads” made by Native Americans, enslaved Africans, New England colonists, Jewish immigrants, and California hippies. The latter part of the workshop will allow […]