If you’ve visited our campus, you know that almost anywhere you choose to walk, you are surrounded by beauty and the peaceful serenity of the mountains. This idyllic landscape provides an escape from the hurried city and invites us to turn inward and be renewed. Now, thanks to the hard work of a recent gardening [...]
Here’s a video of the Earth Day mule plowing demonstration in the Folk School’s garden. Watch Buildings and Grounds Manager John Clarke plowing and singing the “Muleskinner Blues” and work study student Harrison Topp seems to catch on pretty quick, too. The 2 mules, Jim and Joe, owned by Danny Logan. Hal Hogsed, Muleskinner. Jim [...]
Last Friday, Folk School students, staff, and community members excitedly gathered in the garden to witness something that probably hasn’t happened at the Folk School in the last 50 years. Brasstown neighbor, Danny Logan brought his mules to help do some ploughing. The mules, not accustomed to such hard work (or spectators with cameras) put [...]
When Patryk Battle and Frances Juhlin were here at the Folk School teaching the Winter Harvest Cooking class in January they led the class out to the garden for a quick lesson/experiment in Winter gardening. The students planted lettuce and kale starts into a bed and mulched heavily with aged grass clippings and covered with [...]