Sustainable EweMass

List of Events:

Grounded Knowledge: Terroir

Saturday, 9/24 1:00pm

This 90-minute workshop invites participants to ask: how do we preserve terroir amid our changing climate conditions? Jointly led by the Center’s Artist in Residence, Andrea Caluori & evolutionary-ecologist, Dr. Elsa Petit (Stockbridge School of Agriculture, UMass), the workshop offers short readings, a hands-on cheese-making demonstration, and conversation about the traditions and practices that create terroir. Workshop enrollment is limited and pre-registration is required. Register here.

Mapping Terroir: Memory & Myth

June 18-September 30, 2022 The Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies’ reading room showcases Mapping Terroir: Memory & Myth, an artist exhibit by Andrea Caluori.

Grazing and Wool Gathering: Sheep in Life and Literature

This rare book exhibit explores the agricultural and literary pre-history of EweMass sheep experiment.

"Sheep-ish: Short Yarns on the Long History of Sheep in Hampshire County."

Marla Miller and Emily Whitted of the UMass Public History Program, with the help of UMass History intern Joshua Reis, will unveil a new pop-up exhibit that surveys the history of sheep cultivation in Hampshire County from the seventeenth century to the present.

UMass Carbon Farming Initiative

Ask students about working on the UMass Carbon Farming Initiative and the silvopasture plot run by the Agricultural Learning Center and learn how they are capturing carbon through agriculture.

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=carbon_farming_initiative

Activities:

Dyeing Wool, with Gail Callahan, Friday, September 23, 11am to 1:00 pm

The Western Mass Fibershed and Peggy Hart, Friday September 23 10-noon.

Carding and Spinning Wool, Sept 24, 10-noon with Sondra Selinski

Sit and Knit, Friday Sept 23, 10-1 and Saturday Sept 24, 10-1

Event takes place in the meadow of the UMass Amherst Arthur F. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies

Please check out our website at ewemass.org for more information!