Celebrate the Fleece
Saturday, APRIL 12 • family program
TIMES: Ages 4 & 5: 9:30-11:30 am • Ages 6+: 12:30-2:30 pm
FEE: Member: $10 parent & child, $5 each additional child. Nonmember: $12/$6.
Watch the shearing of sheep, greet the new lambs, and meet people who turn fleece into felt, yarn, and cloth. Spin, card, and dye your own wool.
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Sheep Shearing Clinic
Saturday, APRIL 19 • adult program
TIME: 9 am – 3 pm
FEE: $100 for shearing (must bring own equipment); $35 for lectures & observation
REGISTRATION: 802-524-6501
Learn the hands-on basics of sheep shearing in this day-long workshop guided by professional sheep shearer, Chet Parsons. Sponsored by UVM Extension.
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Calf Open House
Sunday, APRIL 27 • special event
TIME: 1–4 pm • Free to all
Spring has sprung at the dairy and we have a lot of baby Brown Swiss calves! Come greet our newborns (and other cows), try your hand at milking a cow, and climb on a farm tractor as we celebrate calving season!
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Salamander Sleuthing
APRIL or MAY (dates to be announced) • adult program
TIME & LOCATION: TBD • FEE: Free • REGISTRATION: Call 802-985-8686 x341 to be on the email/phone list for notification as soon as field walk is scheduled.
Field naturalist Matt Kolan will lead a field walk to capture a signature signpost of early spring: the migration of amphibians to their spring breeding pools. Program will be scheduled for a damp night!
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Mother’s Day Tours of The Inn at Shelburne Farms
Sunday, MAY 11 • special event
TIME: 12:00–5:00 pm
TICKETS: $10/adults; $9/seniors; $8 members. On sale at the Welcome Center, 802-985-8442.
Join us for this once-a-year opportunity to see all of the public rooms and guest rooms at the Inn. Guides stationed throughout the house will share the history of the Webb family and explain the original furnishings. This year, discover “food on the farm” in the Marble Dining Room, with a recipe demo from Cooking with Shelburne Farms, herbs and early greens from the garden, and updates on what’s new this season in the Inn’s dining room. |
Spirit and Nature Retreats Adult Residential Program
Friday–Tuesday, MAY 16–20 or Thursday–Monday, SEPTEMBER 11–15
FACILITATORS: Mary Abele, Interfaith Pastor; Jeffrey Allen, Psychologist; Delia Clark, Educator; Matt Kolan, Naturalist
FEE: $200 includes meals & accommodations
INFORMATION & APPLICATION FORMS: Sue Dixon, 802-985-0318, sdixon@shelburnefarms.org
Shelburne Farms is collaborating with All Souls Interfaith Gathering, a neighboring spiritual center with a shared commitment to environmental stewardship, to offer these retreats. Participants of diverse faiths, scientific perspectives and environmental backgrounds will be invited to explore nature as a pathway to spirit, the motivation of stewardship, and common ground between environmentalism and spirituality. Enrollment is limited.
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Super Salamanders
Saturday, MAY 17 • family program
Eggs, tiny legs, spots, and stripes. Sneak and peek amongst the leaves, logs, and rocks in the hopes of finding an amazing amphibian. Investigate their habitats and observe their life cycle in action. |
Pasture to Palate: The Art of Cheesemaking
Monday–Wednesday, MAY 19–21 • adult residential program
FEE: $500/person includes meals and gratuities; accommodations $145–$380/night + tax. Room information is available at www.shelburnefarms.org • REGISTRATION: 802-985-0342
With the elegant Inn at Shelburne Farms as your hub, take a three-day journey into the world of artisanal cheesemaking. From maintaining a dairy herd to highlighting cheese flavors, each step of this course brings to life the art of creating, appreciating and serving Vermont’s finest cheeses. Visit several Vermont cheesemakers, enjoy a cheese-tasting reception, make cheddar with our head cheesemaker, stroll the pastures and tour the dairy where our cheese begins.
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Taste of Place Luncheon
Thursday, MAY 22 • adult program
Time: noon • FEE: $30/person • LOCATION: Inn at Shelburne Farms
Celebrate the publication of THE TASTE OF PLACE: A Cultural Journey Into Terroir as author Amy Trubek leads you through a guided tasting lunch. Each course will be an exploration of the natural environment, regional traditions and artisanal practices of items featured on the menu.
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Bedrock to Birds: The Natural History of Shelburne Farms’ Working Landscape
Friday–Sunday, MAY 23–25 • adult residential program
FEE: $250/person includes tuition and meals; optional overnight accommodations: +$50/person/night (double occupancy)
INSTRUCTORS: Walter Poleman and Matt Kolan, field naturalists
REGISTRATION: 802-985-0342
Enjoy a weekend rich in discovery and friendship as you explore the natural history of the Farm’s rural working landscape from bedrock to birds, and from forest to furniture. The program includes morning birdwalks during the year’s most diverse bird-watching season, wildflower identification, geology explorations, and wildlife observation. Accommodations are in a former private residence on a spectacular lakeside bluff.
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“Menu for the Future”
Vermont Earth Institute Discussion Course
Tuesdays, MAY 27–JULY 1 • adult program
TIME: 6:00–7:30 pm
FEE: $25 for course materials
This six-week community discussion course at Shelburne Farms explores the connection between food and sustainability. The course, led by Food Systems Coordinator Phoebe Garfinkel, will cover a range of topics from various perspectives, including “From Field to Fork,” “Farming for the Future,” and “Local Food Communities.”
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Morning Birdwalk
Wednesday, MAY 28 • adult program
TIME: 7:00–9:00 am
FEE: $6
Celebrate the return of the dawn chorus. Join naturalist Matt Kolan to explore shrubland, grassland, wetland, and forest habitats in search of the sights and sounds of our feathered friends.
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Stone Carving Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, MAY 31 & JUNE 1 • adult residential program
TIME: 8 am – 6 pm • FEE: $250/person • INSTRUCTORS: Bob Babcock & Kathy Stockman, Carving Studio & Sculpture Center • REGISTRATION: 802-438-2097 or www.carvingstudio.org
Learn how to carve soapstone or alabaster at the Farm with instructors from the internationally acclaimed Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland, Vermont. Explore the wonders and colors of soft stone to create your own sculptures — giving life to inanimate rocks. You’ll receiveinstruction on using basic hand tools for creative design, direct and indirect carving, modeling, stone selection, sculpturing techniques, and safety. All tools and equipment are provided, along with a 35-40 pound rock to carve. Lunch will be provided each day.
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Wild Edibles: An Introduction
Wednesday, JUNE 4 • adult program
TIME: 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
FEE: $50
REGISTRATION: 802-985-8686 x341
Join Shelburne Farms’ naturalist Matt Kolan for an exciting introduction to foraging and preparing wild edibles. Meet in the morning for a guided exploration on the Farm to learn how to identify and sustainably harvest wild foods, then gather to collaboratively prepare a light lunch from the morning’s foraged foods with Shelburne Farms’ Head Chef Rick Gencarelli. Space is limited. Register early! |
Down at the Dairy
Saturday, JUNE 7 • family program
June is Dairy Month! Come to the Shelburne Farms Dairy and meet our beautiful Brown Swiss cows and calves. Walk around the barns and discover what happens behind the scenes. After our visit we’ll make a delicious dairy treat! |
Longbow Workshop
Saturday–Sunday, JUNE 7–8 • adult program
TIME: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm both days
FEE: $200 (includes all materials; bring your lunch or purchase from the Farm Cart)
INSTRUCTORS: Matt Kolan and Ben Mazzei, Naturalists
Begin with a simple hickory stave and over the course of two days, delve into the process of carving and tillering a bow. Participants will also gain hands-on experience with instinctive shooting techniques.
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Raising Layers: Small-Scale Egg Production Backyard Farmer Series
Saturday, JUNE 14
TIME: 9:00 am–12:00 pm
FEE: $25
Come learn the basics of backyard egg production, including the economics of producing eggs, selecting the perfect laying hen, basic and innovative housing solutions, feed requirements, and flock health management. Meet the Farm’s hens, tour the coop and traveling hen-house at the Children’s Farmyard, and take home a half dozen Farm-fresh eggs.
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“I Spy!” at the Inn
Saturday, JUNE 21 • family program
TIME: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, For ages 4 and up
The Inn has been a fun and exciting place to visit for the last 120 years. Many things have happened over the years. Journey around the grounds of the house to “Spy” the ways in which the Inn has changed. |
Small-Scale Livestock Production Backyard Farmer Series
Saturday, JUNE 21
TIME: 9:00 am–12:00 pm
FEE: $25
Interested in raising animals for meat, milk, or eggs but unsure where to begin? Come discuss backyard, small-scale livestock production, including some of the basic economics of raising livestock, selecting which varieties and how many animals to raise, land, facilities and feed requirements, livestock health management, and options for slaughtering.
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Cooking with Shelburne Farms: A Summer Picnic
Saturday, JUNE 21 • adult program
TIME: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
FEE: $25
Join Melissa Pasanen, co-author of COOKING WITH SHELBURNE FARMS, for a discussion and demonstration of summer recipes from the cookbook and then walk up to the top of Lone Tree Hill to enjoy a picnic prepared from recipes in the cookbook. In case of inclement weather, lunch will be in the Education Center at the Farm Barn.
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Vermont Symphony Orchestra Concert
Friday, JULY 4
TICKETS: 802-863-5966 INFORMATION: 802-864-5741 x10; 1-800-VSO-9293 |
A Toast to the Season: An Evening with Shelburne Vineyard
Tuesday, JULY 8 (Rain date: wednesday, July 9) • adult program
TIME: 6:00 pm
FEE: $35
Watch the sun set over Lake Champlain in the spectacular setting at Shelburne Vineyard as you enjoy a family-style dinner of rustic tarts and market garden salads and meet winemakers Ken and Gail Albert. Shelburne Vineyard wines will be available at a cash bar.
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Campfire Breakfast
Saturday, JULY 12 (Rain date: Saturday, July 19) • adult program
TIME: 8:30 am
FEE: $15/adult; $8/children under 10
Meet in the Children’s Farmyard to gather the eggs for your breakfast, then walk up the hill to the campfire site to join Melissa Pasanen and Chef Rick Gencarelli, co-authors of COOKING WITH SHELBURNE FARMS, for bacon and eggs and the cookbook’s Cinnamon Sugar Pancakes and Golden Flannel Hash cooked over an open fire.
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Vermont Mozart Festival Concert
Sunday, JULY 13 (Dressage Exhibition, Inn lawn)
TICKETS & INFORMATION: 802-862-7352 or www.vtmozart.org |
Summer Garden Community Potluck
Friday, JULY 18 • special event
TIME: 6:00 pm
FEE: $10/adult; $8/children under 10
REGISTRATION: Call 802-985-8686 x341
LOCATION: Coach Barn
Join community members for a potluck supper to celebrate the joys of the vegetable growing season! The
Farm’s cookbook, COOKING WITH SHELBURNE FARMS: Food and Stories from Vermont, has a chapter on Summer Greens to inspire you, or make one of your own favorites featuring summer vegetables. Shelburne Farms will provide an entrée featuring produce from its Market Garden and gardener Josh Carter will be on hand.
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Get into the Garden!
Saturday, JULY 19 • family program
TIME: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm,
For ages 4 and up
Greens, corn, garlic, and herbs... Our Market Garden will be full of plants and work to be done. We’ll work together to help the gardener, and end with a picnic celebration of garden treats. Join us for this unique opportunity to see our production garden in action. |
Tour Two Great Country Houses: The Brick House and Shelburne House
Saturday, JULY 19 & Saturday, AUGUST 30 • adult program
TIME: 1:00–4:00 pm
FEE: $35/member of Shelburne Farms or Shelburne Museum; $40/nonmember
Information & reservations: 802-985-3346 x3377 or brickhouse@shelburnemuseum.org
Enjoy in-depth tours of both the Brick House, the Colonial Revival Vermont home of Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb, and Shelburne House (The Inn at Shelburne Farms).
Brick House Tours are available on weekends in July and August through Shelburne Museum. See contact above.
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Vermont Mozart Festival Concert
Saturday, JULY 19 (Inn lawn)
TICKETS & INFORMATION: 802-862-7352 or www.vtmozart.org |
Bats in the Barn
Friday, JULY 25 • family program
TIME: 7:00–9:00 pm
Come celebrate the best bug zappers around! We’ll learn about the benefits of bats, then venture out with Barry the Bat Guy to watch the flight of the barn’s bats as they leave for their evening hunt. |
Green Mountain Draft Horse Field Day
Saturday, JULY 26 • special event
TIME: 11 am–2 pm
FEE: Free with admission to property
Come watch demonstrations of traditional farming methods presented by the Green Mountain Draft Horse Association. Horses bred for strength and power will be harnessed to plowing, mowing, and reaping machines used on Vermont farms. Enjoy a hay ride too!
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Vermont Mozart Festival Concert
Saturday, JULY 26 (Dressage Exhibition, Inn lawn)
TICKETS & INFORMATION: 802-862-7352 or www.vtmozart.org |
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Vermont Mozart Festival Concert
Friday, AUGUST 1 (Coach Barn)
TICKETS & INFORMATION: 802-862-7352 or www.vtmozart.org |
Vermont Mozart Festival Concert
Saturday, AUGUST 2 (Inn lawn)
TICKETS & INFORMATION: 802-862-7352 or www.vtmozart.org |
Raising Broilers:
Small-Scale Poultry Production Backyard Farmer Series
Saturday, AUGUST 2
TIME: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
FEE: $50 (purchase lunch at the Farm Cart or pack your own!)
Join us for the day to learn what it takes to raise broiler hens. We’ll discuss the economics of raising chickens, breed selection, housing options, feed requirements, managing flock health, and what to do when you’re ready to slaughter. After lunch, you may participate in the slaughtering process, from beginning to end, and take home a broiler chicken.
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Vermont Fresh Network Forum—
Connecting the Dots: Healthy Farms, Innovative Chefs, Vibrant Communities
Sunday, AUGUST 3 • special event
INFORMATION: www.vermontfresh.net or 802-434-2000
Enjoy the agricultural bounty and rich culinary talent of the Green Mountain State! Following a guest speaker, feast on a spectacular grazing dinner showcasing local foods raised by VFN farm partners and prepared by over 20 of Vermont’s finest chefs. Afternoon seminars with local and national food authorities, chefs and growers will be offered.
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Habitat for Humanity Community Picnic
Sunday, AUGUST 10 • special event
TIME: 3:00–7:00 pm
TICKETS & INFORMATION: www.greenmountainhfh.org; group rates
available for businesses. Pre-registration encouraged.
Play casual backyard games, enjoy a tasty barbeque, and help support affordable housing for local families—all in a beautiful setting. Lawn games for adults and games especially for children start at 3:00 pm; food starts at 5:00 pm.
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Celestial Evening: Horse-Drawn Wagon Ride
Saturday, AUGUST 16 • adult program
TIME: 6:00–9:00 pm
FEE: $20/person
REGISTRATION (or to schedule other date): 802-985-8686 x341
Ride a horse-drawn wagon to a lakeside picnic site (bring your own picnic), enjoy the sunset over the Adirondack Mountains while you dine, then afterwards, watch the full moon rising over the Green Mountains on your return. Can’t make it? Plan your own special occasion this summer around a hired, horse-drawn wagon ride.
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Tour Two Great Country Houses: The Brick House and Shelburne House
Saturday, AUGUST 30 • adult program
TIME: 1:00–4:00 pm
FEE: $35/member of Shelburne Farms or Shelburne Museum; $40/nonmember
Information & reservations: 802-985-3346 x3377 or brickhouse@shelburnemuseum.org
Enjoy in-depth tours of both the Brick House, the Colonial Revival Vermont home of Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb, and Shelburne House (The Inn at Shelburne Farms).
Brick House Tours are available on weekends in July and August through Shelburne Museum. See contact above.
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