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The Whippoorwill Festival 2011- Skills for Earth-Friendly Living Thursday-Sunday June 16-19, 2011 Near Berea KY

Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM - Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM (ET)

Berea, KY

The Whippoorwill Festival 2011- Skills for Earth-Friendly...

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
1 Day Pass Ended $15.00 $1.36
2 day pass Ended $30.00 $1.74
3 day pass Ended $45.00 $2.12
4 day pass Ended $60.00 $2.49
RV Pass (includes water and electric) Ended $30.00 $1.74
Kids 12 and under Ended $0.00 $0.00
Workshop leaders, speakers and performers Ended $0.00 $0.00
Vendors Ended $50.00 $2.24
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Event Details

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.  

Speakers:

  • Kentucky Gubernatorial Candidate Gatewood Galbraith
  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning cartoonist Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader
  • Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry
  • Sustainability expert Dr. Richard Olson of Berea College
  • Carol Judy, Clearfork Community Institute

Music:

  • From Charlottesville, VA The Hot Seats
  • 23 String Band
  • Randy Wilson
  • Lee Sexton and Jack Adams
  • Elizabeth Laprelle
  • Sara Lynch-Thomason
  • Sugar Tree
  • Funny Bones

Confirmed Workshops:

 

Non Toxic Household Cleaning - Hide Tanning - 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 - Making Hobo Stoves - Primitive Nutrition - Edible Wild Mushrooms - Mountain Justice Kid Collective - Basic Bicycle Maintenance - Making Kefir  - Making Hula Hoops - Making Salve from Plantain and Comfrey - Herbs for Digestive Health and Stress - Solar Field Trip - Cob Construction - Dumpstering - Deep Ecology - Home Schooling - Growing Fruit Trees - Home Weatherization - Worm Composting - Flatfooting - "How to survive without a salary" - Stick Tag - Natural Building and Earthbag - Waste Veggie Oil Auto Conversion - Knitting and Fabric Dyeing - Making Sausage - Backyard Chickens - Alternative Transportation - Forest Gardening - Fiber Arts: Hat Felting - Fire Spinning/Poi - Composting Toilets - Fermenting Kim Che and Sauerkraut - Making Mead - Foraging - Rocket Stoves - Fire Building with Primitive Tools - Wildlife Observation and Nature Awareness - Bicycle Touring - Roots and Non-timber Forest Products - Leave No Trace - Making Huaraches (Tire Sandals) - Coal Burnt Spoon - Deepening our Connections - Dutch Oven Cooking - Making Hot Sauces and Benefits of a Spicy Diet - Bagua and Chi Gong

 

No Dogs - Please leave your pets at home or schedule a stay for them at Durham Kennels, just 8 miles down the road.

 

Tent camping. 

 

A limited number (8) of RV spaces are available, which include water and electric.

 

Kids 12 and under are free.  This is a family-friendly event.  Rain or shine, no refunds.

 

Bring camp chair, flashlight, tent, ground cloth and sleeping bag (if staying over night), hula hoops, frisbee, poi, etc. 

 

There will be group meals, breakfast lunch and dinner with a donation requested to benefit United Mountain Defense and Mountain Justice, fighting mountaintop removal coal mining.  Bring food to share, if you would like.

 

Volunteers are needed!  Reduced/Free admission work exchange.  Contact davecooper928@yahoo.com for more info