Gardenpalooza

The Farmhouse 1115 Leonard St. NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Garden Palooza will meet your green-thumb needs and kick of your spring with the knowledge and plants needed to grow your own food. We will be selling plant starts, coffee […]

Gardenpalooza

The Farmhouse 1115 Leonard St. NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Garden Palooza will meet your green-thumb needs and kick of your spring with the knowledge and plants needed to grow your own food. We will be selling plant starts, coffee […]

Farm Volunteer Day (June)

The Farmhouse 1115 Leonard St. NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Get your hands in the dirt with a farm volunteer work day. Tasks include mulching, plant transplanting, weeding, and more. Join us with sun and fun while helping out with […]

Farm Volunteer Day (September)

The Farmhouse 1115 Leonard St. NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Get your hands in the dirt with a farm volunteer work day. Tasks include landscaping, mulching, general clean up, and more. Join us with sun and fun while helping out […]

Garlic Planting Volunteer Day

Plainsong Farm 6677 12 Mile Rd NE, Rockford, Michigan

Come help the NCN and Plainsong team plant Garlic in the ground for overwintering. Each season, we plant over 10,000 cloves of Garlic, and many hands make the work light. Participants can take home some Garlic seeds for their own home planting! This event will continue rain or shine.

Irrigation Farmer Workshop

The Farmhouse 1115 Leonard St. NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Come to this workshop to improve your irrigation-building skills. We will tour NCN's automated irrigation system, look at drip line and overhead irrigation systems, and build an irrigation manifold so participants can learn how to make a variety of irrigation connections. This is helpful information for farmers and homesteaders. This event is rain or shine; […]

Tunnel Building Farmer Workshop

Plainsong Farm 6677 12 Mile Rd NE, Rockford, Michigan

Come to this workshop to learn how to build your own season extension high tunnel! We will discuss how to bend your own hoops for a Caterpillar tunnel and a commonly purchased Farmer Friends tunnel design. If the wind allows, we will pull poly on one or two of the tunnels. The workshop portion will […]