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Whippoorwill Festival

Skills for Earth-Friendly Living

Thurs-Sun, July 12-15, 2012

 

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The Whippoorwill Festival, located in the beautiful foothills of Appalachia in Central Kentucky, teaches earth-friendly and sustainable living skills in a joyful, healthy, family-friendly atmosphere.  

The Whippoorwill Festival celebrates our Appalachian heritage and traditions while helping prepare our minds and bodies for a future world of climate change and a decreased supply of fossil fuels. 

The Whippoorwill Festival is an all-volunteer event featuring over 50 earth-friendly workshops, tent camping, healthy, home-cooked meals, and guest speakers, plus campfires, old-time mountain music, dancing, and story-telling in the evenings.

To support the local economy, The Whippoorwill Festival will feature booths and displays from local artists and craft workers from Berea, Kentucky's artisan capital.  

The Whippoorwill Festival is low cost.

Children 12 and under are free.

 

Please leave your pets at home or schedule a stay for them at Durham Kennels, just 8 miles down the road. 

 

Goals & Mission Statement

 

 

For more information or to volunteer for the festival contact davecooper928@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 Confirmed Workshops,

Speakers, & Special Guests

 

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Speakers

Gatewood Galbraith

Joel Pett

Keith McHenry

Richard Olson

Carol Judy

 

Music & Entertainment

The Hot Seats

The 23 String Band

Randy Wilson

Elizabeth LaPrelle

Sugar Tree

Lee Sexton

Funny Bones

Sara Lynch-Thomason

Shadow Theater

 

Workshops

Non Toxic Household Cleaning - Rain Barrels - Dendrology/Tree Identification- Forest Ecology - Playing Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin - Old Time Ballad Singing - Earth Ovens - Food Security - Oyster Mushroom Innoculation - Mushroom Wildcrafting -  Beekeeping - Growing Hot Weather Greens - Primitive Nutrition - Edible Wild Mushrooms - Basic Bicycle Maintenance - Kefir  - Making Hula Hoops - Making Salve from Plantain and Comfrey - Aromatherapy and Massage - Solar - Dumpstering - Deep Ecology - Home Schooling - Growing Fruit Trees - Home Weatherization - Worm Composting - Flatfooting - "How to survive without a salary" - Stick Tag - Natural Building: Cob and EarthBag - Waste Veggie Oil Auto Conversion - Knitting - Making Sausage - Backyard Chickens - Alternative Transportation - Forest Gardening - Fiber Arts: Hat Felting - Fire Spinning/Poi - Composting Toilets - Kim Che and Sauerkraut - Making Mead - Foraging - Rocket Stoves - Fire Building with Primitive Tools - Wildlife Observation and Nature Awareness - Bicycle Touring - Roots - Non-timber Forest Products - Bicycle Powered Generators

 

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