Friendly Haven Rise Farm is 30 min. NE of Portland, OR. and ten minutes east of Battle Ground, WA. We may have sleepover room if you're traveling a distance.

BEES: THE OTHER WAY
Sat. Aug 7 from 10-4... $50
Also offered in Snoqualmie WA (near Seattle) on May 1
Learn to be a friend to bees. Beekeepers, novices and backyard bee afficionados all welcome.
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BUILD A COMPOST TEA MAKER
(later this summer, TBA. Tell us you're interested.) $25 (+ $35 materials)
Make a compost tea maker and improve your garden's health.
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HEALTHY FRUIT KEFIR (non-dairy) SODAS & ELIXIRS
Fri. July 30 from 6:30-8:30, $20
Delicious low-cost natural fruit flavored soda!
Taste a dozen or more ways to make this inexpensive healthful drink.
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KEEPING CHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARD
Sun. August 8 from 10-4... $50
Everything (and we mean that) you need to know to keep a flock
in your backyard. Taught by chicken expert Brenda Wilson
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BIODYNAMIC COMPOST: HOW THE MAGIC WORKS
(later this summer, TBA. Tell us you're interested.) Build a legendary biodynamic compost pile, create vortexes in field sprays and apply to gardens. Bring an open heart for this approach to spiritual work in gardens and farms.
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EQUINE NATURAL MOVEMENT CLASS - Level One
Sept 26 - Oct 2
Learn intelligent, kind-hearted bodywork to improve horses' movement and comfort in their bodies. A heart opening career for those who love horses. Taught by Joseph Freeman and faculty. Taught at our farm and nearby barns
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Revel in the Peaceful Rhythms on the Farm
Click here to read about our Agritherapy farm stays

REGISTER BY SENDING PAYMENT Make check out to Jacqueline Freeman, mail to address on top left sidebar, or use the Paypal link below with a credit card.

Name of Class

Bees: The Other Way $50.00 Fruit Kefir $20.00 Fruit Kefir Ptld $25.00 Backyard Chickens $50.00 Adv. Beekeeping $45.00 Compost Tea Maker $60.00

Kefir is known worldwide for promoting longevity and good health. Learn to make healthful juice drinks that are filled with probiotics and tasty, too. EASY and inexpensive way to create juices that are good for your family. Save on the high costs of soda and fruit juices.

This beverage is fruit-infused, naturally carbonated, healthful and oh-so refreshing. Water kefir crystals are a culture from bacteria and yeast. The microbes feed off the sugars and create the most delicious and healthful drink we have ever had. Thirst quenching and delicious.

Water kefir is a unique way of drinking your probiotics. It is not kombucha (too tart for me), lends itself easily to being non-dairy and is simple to make. Just mix it up and let it mature for a day or so. Strain off the crystals and repeat, repeat, repeat. When your crystals multiply (which they will do), share them with friends.

Class includes LOTS of samples, history, creative demonstrations and kefir crystals so you can make them yourself. Forever.

Jacqueline teaches this one. She's made a few gallons of this wonderful soda every 48 hours for 3 years. If it wasn't totally simple she'd never have done that! If you want to carpool, let me know and we will connect you with others who are coming.
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BEES: The OTHER Way

This ever-evolving class has everything I think caring beekeepers ought to know at the beginning of their bee education, especially how to treat bees respectfully. All are welcome! if you've taken the class before you can audit again for $10. Bring any bee clothes you have or dress for being around bees (loose jeans, sweatshirt) Bring a bag lunch (pollen provided!)

* The bee family
* My Swarm-Catching kit -- I'm ready to go on a minute's notice
* How to care for them once they're home
* Mistakes I have made (and hopefully learned from)
* Approaching bees using biodynamic and organic methods
* Purchased queen bees vs. natural true queens
* The effects of the weakened gene pool
* True nutrition for bees
* Tasting different kinds of honeys and pollens (wow!)
* Creating a healthy bee garden in your own backyard
* Natural ways to prevent CCD (no kidding)
* Communicating with bees and developing relationships with hives
* Top bar hives, historic cow dung hives and straw hives
* Rehoming swarms and moving bees from buildings
* Educating the public about alternative bee paradigms

I've had honeybees on the farm for nearly five years. Fascinating. I continue to learn more about the little native bees, too. Did you know we have three HUNDRED native bees in this area?

I have a strong opinion about the causes of CCD and I'll share that with you. By the time you finish this class you'll understand where it comes from, how to prevent it, and what to do to help bees even if you're not a beekeeper. All my hives come from swarms and are feral. I like the mixed gene pool that comes from that.

Taught by Jacqueline, bee stewardess. Tell me you want to attend by sending an email to
friendlyhaven@gmail.com

BACKYARD CHICKENS
from A to Z

* The chicken family, who does what (and how they do it)
* Egg laying
* Puts your hands on chickens and learn how to tame them
* Keeping them in good health, dealing with pests
* Moulting, bathing and keeping clean
* Fences and predators, keeping your hens safe
* Coops and nesting boxes
* What they like to eat (bugs and slugs - yum!)
* Hot, wet and cold weather
* Benefits of different breeds
* New and older chicks for sale, all organically hand-raised
* And stories about chickens we've known and loved

Brenda Wilson is a well known chicken expert. She rescues injured birds, is a 4H leader (hens and pigeons) and has been tending chickens for 40 years. She LOVES birds, is full of knowledge and is a lot of fun to learn from.
Email or call us to enroll. (360) 687-8384
friendlyhaven@gmail.com

Build a COMPOST TEA MAKER

Make a compost tea maker and improve your garden's health. Learn the importance of foliar feeding and how to vastly improve each plant's nutritional density. Save a bundle. Build a COMPOST TEA MAKER with us and then take it home and make all the compost tea you want. Your garden will LOVE that you've done this for it!

A compost tea maker can improve your garden's health magnificently. Compost tea is a liquid microbial blend that significantly adds nutrients to your plants, puts beneficial organisms into the soil that supports the plants that grow in it, and also builds organic matter in that soil as well as improves the soil structure. It's wonderful stuff.

While really good compost can contain millions of beneficial organisms, compost tea adds billions and it can do it all in one application. The tea is aerated, not leached like normal tea, and includes food sources for all the microorganisms that multiply like crazy while the tea is brewing. One of the best reasons for having your own tea maker is because the tea is at its absolute peak for just the first few hours after brewing. Once you get to six hours later it's already losing potency.

Compost tea makers sell for pretty hefty prices. Even small ones range from $150-400+, though I can't figure out why they're so expensive when they're so simple to make. That's why we're doing this class. Come on up to the farm (we're a half hour north of PDX, carpools available) and make one with us. Everyone will go home with a five gallon size tea maker. While you're here we'll show you our new 55 gallon compost tea maker, too. Love this stuff!

Email us if you want to come. $25 per person and $35 for the materials for each tea maker you want to build. Taught by Joseph Freeman.

BIODYNAMIC COMPOST: How the Magic Works

Biodynamic Compost is something special. This method of combining animal manures and organic wastes is known for its ability to bring outstanding nutrition and remarkable healthy growth to garden plants, fruits and vegetables. Biodynamic compost is made with unique plant and mineral preparations that increase soil health and emanate energetic frequencies that vitalize the farm. We will build a functional mineralized compost pile, innoculate it with the biodynamic preparations, stir vortexes into biodynamic preps to activate them and learn the proper way to apply the sprays on gardens, pastures and orchards.

Research at Washington State University (WSU) found that biodynamic composts have higher temperatures, mature faster, have more beneficial nitrates than normal compost piles and are effective even in homeopathic quantities. This work also has a spiritual component -- come with an open mind and warm heart. Work-trades available. Tell me you want to attend by sending an email to
friendlyhaven@gmail.com
WE WILL HOLD THIS CLASS AGAIN DURING THE SUMMER (TBA), send us an email saying you are interested.

Setup a WARRE HIVE
and Attract WILD BEE SWARMS