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Brookfield Craft Center

Location: 286 Whisconier Road (Route 25) Brookfield, CT 06804-0122

Description: Brookfield Craft Center is recognized as one of the finest professional schools for creative study in America, dedicated to teaching traditional and contemporary craft skills, and fostering the appreciation of fine craftsmanship. Students can explore blacksmithing, bladesmithing, ceramics, fused glass, flameworking, jewelrymaking, woodturning, weaving and fiber arts. Other areas of special interest include business, marketing and photography for artists; decorative arts; drawing and painting.

Contact: http://store.brookfieldcraftcenter.org, info@brookfieldcraft.org, 203-775-4526

Category: pottery, fiber arts, glass work, jewelry, carpentry, blacksmithing,

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Nifty Homestead

Location: 900 1st Ave South, Suite 205A Seattle, WA 98134

Description: Nifty Homestead was founded to help aspiring and expert homesteaders learn and grow. We post resources on gardening, raising animals, natural building, sustainable energy, and tons of other topics related to homestead living.

Contact: https://www.niftyhomestead.com/, hello@niftyhomestead.com ,

Category: Milling , Carpentry, gardening, Urban Farming, Off the Grid, Plant ID, Aquaponics, Poultry, Beekeeping, Goats, Permaculture, Soapmaking, Quilting, Knit, Fiber arts, Weaving

Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership

Location: P.O. Box 80625 South Dartmouth, MA 02748

Description: SEMAP is dedicated to preserving and expanding access to local food and sustainable farming in southeastern Massachusetts through research and education.

Contact: https://semaponline.org, info@semaponline.org,

Category: poultry, fiber arts, wine , gardening,urban farming

Beginning Farmers

Location: NA

Description: An online reference for all types of farming

Contact: http://www.beginningfarmers.org/,

Category: Homesteading, Urban Farming, animal husbandry, sustainable Agriculture

Cluck!

Location: 399 Broadway, Providence Rhode Island 02909

Description: cluck! is a small, woman-owned business founded in 2013 to serve urban agriculturalists and gardeners in and around Providence, Rhode Island. cluck!'s goods and services focus on small-scale food production, backyard small animal husbandry (especially chickens and bees) and homesteading-based self-reliance. We have the tools, supplies, ideas and education you need to grow, raise and preserve your own food while helping to keep your community healthy and beautiful. We've also got unusual, thoughtful gifts for all ages. We run year-round classes, workshops, readings, and family-friendly programs and maintain a teaching garden of edibles and habitat-supporting native plants. We also keep bees and raise chickens.

Contact: http://cluckri.com/, drake@cluckri.com, (401) 274 1160

Category: poultry, gardening, urban farming

New England Wild Flower Society

Location: 180 Hemenway Road Framingham, MA 01701

Description: New England Wild Flower Society conserves native plants in the wild and encourages gardeners and landscape professionals to choose natives when they plant outdoor spaces, particularly plants grown from local seeds, harvested sustainably in the wild. Our mission is to conserve and promote the region’s native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Contact: http://www.newenglandwild.org/, information@newenglandwild.org, 508.877.7630

Category: plant ID, urban farming, gardening, composting

Urban Farming Institute of Boston

Location: 34 Linwood St Boston, Massachusetts

Description: The Urban Farming Institute of Boston’s mission is to develop and promote urban farming as a Commercial sector that creates green collar jobs for residents; and to engage urban communities in building a healthier and more locally based food system.

Contact: https://urbanfarminginstitute.org/, (617) 989-9920

Category: urban farming, plant ID, foraging, beekeeping, sustainable agriculture



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