Come to Meadowhawk Homestead to learn how we strive to live sustainably through our various homestead endeavors.
You'll see and learn about the following systems that we've developed:
-Cultivating Shiitake Mushrooms
-Maple Sugaring
-Keeping Honey Bees
-Growing a variety of fruits and vegetables which we freeze, can and store in our root cellar.
-Raising Dairy Goats
-Making Goat Milk Soap
-Harvesting firewood from our property.
-Raising Chickens
Depending on the season, sample a green bean or tomato fresh from the garden, enjoy our homemade chevre and goat yogurt, or sip maple sap as it boils into syrup.
Optional additions to your tour include:
-a farm to table meal
-a yoga class led by Melanie in our straw bale studio
-walking along our woods trails or labyrinth
We hope that coming to Meadowhawk will help you learn about ways large and small to live a more sustainable and environmentally friendly life.
Please ask questions along the way about the things that you are particularly curious as this will help us tailor the tour to your interests.
We feel blessed to live on the homestead with its varied activities and connection to the land. Each season brings with it new energy as we head into our homestead adventures. Warren has worked as a massage therapist, environmental and health education teacher and in various retreat center kitchens. He has extensive travel experience, but now revels in living in the same place and taking care of the homestead. He enjoys gardening, pottery, massage, hiking and cooking with vegetables he grew himself. Melanie has worked as a middle school educator. She enjoys hiking, biking, gardening, writing and practicing yoga. She teaches yoga twice a week in the homestead's yoga studio. Melanie has backpacked Vermont’s 275 mile Long Trail. She has hiked, backpacked and winter camped in New Hampshire’s White Mountain’s and Vermont’s Green Mountains. Full profile ⋅ Leave a Review
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