UPCOMING EVENTS

Black Ash Splint Pounding Workshop
Oct
17

Black Ash Splint Pounding Workshop

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Put your body to work learning how to pound black ash logs into splints for future generations of basket makers! 

Guided by Abenaki educators Kerry Wood and Aaron Wood, we'll work together to process logs harvested in Lamoille County into splints for weaving. While live black ash trees are extremely susceptible to infestation from the introduced insect the emerald ash borer, properly stored splints can be saved for over 100 years. Many hands make light work, and your help is needed.

Attend for any part of the day and bring work gloves and lunch. Free and open to all.

10am - 4pm. Opening circle and presentation at 10am, recap of presentation at 1pm. 

Registration is appreciated but not required. 

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Grades 1-8 Tour
Jul
17

Grades 1-8 Tour

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Join us for a tour of ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç on our Grace Farm campus, situated on 55 beautiful acres of rolling hills and river frontage in East Montpelier. Please RSVP to enrollment@ovws.org

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Mayfest Community Festival
May
16

Mayfest Community Festival

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Celebrate the arrival of spring on our beautiful Grace Farm campus!

Festivities include maypole dancing, a visit from King Winter and Lady Spring, crafts, a puppet show. Bring your own picnic lunch!

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Winter Fair!
Feb
14

Winter Fair!

  • ICS

Join for a magical day filled with joy and creativity! Activities include candle dipping, face painting, children’s crafts, storytelling, games, and more! Enjoy local food and local crafts while celebrating the heart of winter!

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Kimchi Workshop
Jan
17

Kimchi Workshop

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Join Alan LePage and Jung Kim for a workshop that will provide both the practical aspects of making kimchi (tools and ingredients) and the less tangible but invaluable musings of a lifelong farmer from Central Vermont. Come home with jars of kimchi and valuable preservation skills!

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Winter Concert
Dec
19

Winter Concert

  • First Presbyterian Church
  • ICS

Join the Orchard Valley community for our Winter Concert in honor of the season! 

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Community Winter Spiral
Dec
10

Community Winter Spiral

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Orchard Valley welcomes you to participate in our Community Winter Spiral. The experience of walking the spiral reflects the human experience at this time of the year - a season of less light, shorter days, longer nights and going forward with hope to welcome the light of the sun after the winter solstice.

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Felted Bird Ornament Workshop
Nov
15

Felted Bird Ornament Workshop

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Join Marianne Perchlik and OVWS Parent Council in this needle felted bird workshop. We will create beautiful felted bird ornaments together and discuss how to imbue your home with purpose and beauty during this seasonal change. This is a fundraising event and the bird ornaments will be sold at the East Calais General Store.

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Michaelmas Fall Festival
Sep
27

Michaelmas Fall Festival

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Join us for a beloved fall tradition, our Community Harvest festival, on Saturday, September 27th from 10am-1pm.

(Storm date September 28th).

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Introduction to Handspinning on Wheels and Basic Knitting
Nov
16

Introduction to Handspinning on Wheels and Basic Knitting

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Come play with wool! We will have samples of wool from raw to knit garment to show the full process. There will be spinning wheels on hand to learn and practice hand spinning and supplies ready to learn the basics of knitting as well. If you are a beginner spinner or knitter or just curious how wool is processed this is the class for you. 

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Simplify the Holidays
Nov
16

Simplify the Holidays

  • ICS

Go into the holiday season with a clear vision of what you want this time to be like for your family. Learn tools for experiencing the holidays with less stress, centered and content. We will also cover tips for scheduling, conversations with extended family around gifting and food. Join Marianne Perchlik a Waldorf Morning Garden teacher and Maria Leon, a parenting coach for this

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Build Immunity with Food as Medicine 
Nov
9

Build Immunity with Food as Medicine 

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Participants will learn about food as medicine, seasonal eating, ancestral foods, and taste nourishing broths and elixirs. Everyone will help make, and go home with, fire cider, and bring home a recipe packet to continue their healing food explorations.

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Remembering our Beloved Dead
Nov
2

Remembering our Beloved Dead

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Please join us for an evening of remembering and sharing recollections of those we love who have crossed over the threshold between life and death. RSVP is required (click to read more).

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Connecting to the Land and Self through Dowsing 
Oct
26

Connecting to the Land and Self through Dowsing 

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

This hands-on workshop will incorporate the joys of farming, gardening, animal husbandry and land stewardship with some tools and ideas to assist in connecting with the unseen energetic intelligences, creating an environment for spiritual exploration and co-creation.

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Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture
Oct
19

Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture

  • ICS

Dan Morse from Heartbeet Lifesharing will present a synopsis of Rudolf Steiner's 'Agriculture' lectures given 100 years ago, which gave birth to the Biodynamic movement. Participants will have the opportunity to prepare the Horn Manure prep, and enjoy an artistic experience.

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Holistic Orchard Care
Sep
28

Holistic Orchard Care

  • ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ
  • ICS

Join Nicko Rubin of East Hill Tree Farm nursery to learn all about growing and managing fruit trees holistically.

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Making Danish Heart Baskets for Valentine's Day
Feb
10

Making Danish Heart Baskets for Valentine's Day

  • ICS

Join Victoria. Mansuri, OVWS Handwork Teacher, in a special Valentine-making workshop.

Create Danish Heart Baskets for Valentine's Day ~ to fill with sweets for your sweetheart! Danish heart baskets are traditionally hung on the Christmas tree. Adapting them for Valentine’s Day gives them a time to shine on their own! Read more to Regsiter!

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Eurythmy with Stephan Vdoviak
Dec
20

Eurythmy with Stephan Vdoviak

  • ICS

Eurythmy is a social art of making sound visible developed by Rudolf Steiner and practiced in Waldorf schools to strengthen social harmony in the class, reinforce rhythms and qualities embodied in speech and language as well as much more.

RSVP requested.

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Bike Sale and Repair
May
20

Bike Sale and Repair

  • ICS

Are you looking for a new bike for summer riding? Does your bike need some love and repair? OR, Do you have a bike sitting unused in your shed?

The Orchard Valley Bike Sale and Repair is for you!

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Spring Garden Workshop
May
13

Spring Garden Workshop

  • Grace Farm (ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ)
  • ICS

This 2-Day Workshop is perfect for beginning and experienced gardeners alike. Instructor Alan LePage is a 7th generation Vermont farmer and pioneer of the organic agricultural movement.

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Birth Healing
Dec
8

Birth Healing

  • ICS

Birth is a right of passage that transforms us and can leave us with lasting questions, or even trauma that reduces our confidence in parenting, or leaves disturbances in the flow of our close family communication. Come join this two-part event of transformative sharing, led by Marianne Perchlik.


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A Talk with Douglas Gerwin at the Plainfield Opera House
Oct
6

A Talk with Douglas Gerwin at the Plainfield Opera House

  • ICS

Root, Shoot, and Fruit: Cultivating Childhood in the Light of Waldorf Education

A Talk with Douglas Gerwin at the Plainfield Opera House

Thursday, October 6th at 7pm

 

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2021 Summer On the Land Camps
Jul
5
to Jul 20

2021 Summer On the Land Camps

  • ICS

Cost is $325/week
Registration appreciated by May 31st, 2021

Come spend Summer On the Land in this outdoor program led by experienced, beloved Orchard Valley teachers. Each camp has a special focus. In addition to our camps for 3-6 year olds, we are also offering exciting camps for grade school children entering 1st - 5th grade.

For more information, or to fill out an application form, click here

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2021 Orchard Valley Online Auction!
Mar
20
to Mar 28

2021 Orchard Valley Online Auction!

  • ICS

Our Annual Spring Online Auction is coming soon! Take a look and

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Virtual Campus Tours
Mar
18
to Mar 20

Virtual Campus Tours

  • ICS

Two opportunities to take a virtual tour of our grades school, complete with Q&A with parents and teachers:

March 18 at 7 pm

March 20 at 11 am

Register at cathie.e@ovws.org

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