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News and Updates from Sanborn Mills Farm
— April 29, 2022 —
Upcoming Workshops: May and June
Here are the workshops that continue the season at Sanborn Mills Farm, May through June. Click on the workshop title to learn more and to register. Please note that workshops often fill early.
Natural Dye Basics: Natural Indigo Vats with Extract: May 5-7
Natural Dye Basics: Mordant Dyes on Cloth: May 12-14
Blacksmithing Basics: May 20-22
Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel – Spring Session: May 21
Stenciling Basics – Stenciling Placemats: May 21
Draft Animal: Working Oxen on the Farm and Garden: May 21-22
Rug Hooking: May 21-22
Blacksmithing Basics: May 27-29
Indigo Shibori Dyeing from Itajime, Arashi, Nui, Kumo, and Beyond: May 30-June 3
Sew Something Special – A Week with Great Fabric, a Machine, and a Community: June 6 – 10
Stenciled Floor Cloth for All Levels: June 11-12
Introduction to Hand Spinning: June 16-27
The Spirit of Art: Color: June 17-19
Secrets of the Great Wheel: June 18
Blacksmithing Basics for Family Teams: June 24-26
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Meet Kelly Fahey, the Farm’s New Head Chef
“My mom, dad, and sister are all very picky eaters. I used to cook with my grandmother and we would make a lot of different things that my family would not eat,” laughs Kelly Fahey, the new head chef at Sanborn Mills Farm. Her family’s pickiness didn’t deter Kelly, however: As a teen she watched Rachel Ray on the Food Network and realized “I could cook for a living.” She attended Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island as a culinary arts and foodservice management major.
A native of rural Massachusetts, Kelly will oversee the Farm’s foodservice for workshop participants and guests. Working with farm manager Ray Ramsey, she will use ingredients from our own gardens and fields as much as possible. “You will be seeing simple yet modern dishes fresh from the Farm. What we don’t grow or raise on the farm will be local and organic as well,” she says. “My goal in building this kitchen from scratch is to find a happy medium between family-style cooking and farm-to-table restaurant dining.”
She adds that as soon as she drove onto the Farm for the first time, “there was a calming and peaceful presence that I was not used to being a city girl for the last decade. It’s almost like you are in a different era. The more I learn about the farm and Paula & Colin’s mission to be a self-sustainable learning community, the more I fall in love with being a part of the whole process.”
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NH Chronicle Visits the Farm
WMUR’s magazine program NH Chronicle visited the Farm last week to film segments in the sawmill, grist mill, blacksmith shop, the gardens, and with our draft animals.
All next week, beginning on Monday, May 2, the program will be hosted by Sean McDonald and Erin Fehlau from the Farm; viewers will see Sean plowing behind our oxen with livestock manager Tyler Allen and Erin working the forge with Garry Kalajian, one of our blacksmithing instructors.
WMUR’s Sean McDonald and Erin Fehlau with
Garry Kalajian in the Sanborn Mills Farm
blacksmith shop.
WMUR’s webpage for NH Chronicle is here. Episodes of the program can be streamed from 7:00-7:30 p.m. each night. Click here for more information about streaming.
WMUR’s news anchors and NH Chronicle hosts Sean McDonald and Erin Fehlau take in the view of Sanborn Mills Farm from the Sawmill during their visit last week.
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Photo Credits
Photo of Kelly Fahey courtesy Kelly Fahey.
Photos of WMUR’s Sean McDonald and Erin Fehlau by Lea Rossignol.
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