For our final Free School of the year, we are hosting a Farmworker Skill Share / Show-and-Tell!

Think preschool show-and-tell day, except with badass farmworkers nerding out on plants and farming and bugs and foraging. No, this is not a farming fever dream; it’s a real event happening soon! Earlier this month, we issued a call for farmworkers to present at our end-of-season collective skills share, and we received incredible submissions from around the country!

Join us for this unique Free School, where farmworkers will showcase their skills and talents. You don’t want to miss this line up, which includes skillshares on corn braiding 3 ways, heirloom garlic growing, including how to do garlic math, agroecological pedagogy for children, persevering pine including pine soda and pine syrup, seed saving and processing, vermicomposting relay races, farm tasks as games, and using gathas (poems/verses) with farm tasks.

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Trust us, this is the talent show that every farm needs! Roast some cabbage and winter squash on a sheet pan and settle in for the evening with us.

Featuring the following farmworker presenters: Carina, Sheila Gutierrez, Cosmos, Fern Tupelo, Liana, Jawhara, Jess Brown, and Alicia Robinson-Welsh.

Tuesday, December 16, at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET on Zoom.

Accessibility information: This session will be facilitated in English and simultaneously interpreted into Spanish by Cooperativa Brujúlas. Closed captioned will also be available

Co-hosted by Not Our Farm, UW-Extension, and FairShare CSA Coalition.

Please note that Free School for Farmworkers sessions are a farmworker-only space. We define a farmworker as someone working on a farm they do not own, for or without pay, including interns, apprentices, cooperative workers, and aspiring farmworkers. If you have questions about whether you are eligible to participate, please contact Anita Adalja at anita@notourfarm.org

Free School for Farmworkers strives to create pockets of opportunity to skill share, connect, and learn about parts of agriculture that can be overlooked, forgotten, or hoarded due to the nature of working on farms under capitalism.

Flyer designed by Alicia Robinson-Welsh