The Farmers’ Museum
Mar 27th, 2008 by Jason
How was I unaware of this? Check out the events calendar for the Farmers’ Museum in Upstate New York.
Spring Beekeeping A workshop offering an introduction to the fundamentals of beekeping!
Photo: TW Collins
From Udder to Butter?! Start by milking a cow and finish by eating the butter you finished churning! Gah!
Photo : Vicious Bits
They Farmers’ Museum has tons of awesome events like this all year round. Sweet succulent living history! They’ve also got a behind the exhibit scenes lecture series. Makes sense, what with the graduate program museum studies program in town. The lecture series is titled food for thought…when I have a chance, I’ll put something on the blog to count instances of this phrase that I find. (I admit I considered food for thought as a name for this blog.)
Anyway, next time you’re in Cooperstown, enjoy the Farmers’ Museum. And while you’re in town, you might inquire about other area museums. I heard they have one just dedicated to baseball!
**Note, for you readers who want to get your apiary on, but cannot attend the beekeeping workshop, try WC Harbison’s 1860 classic work Bees and Beekeeping. University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman mentioned this ‘bible of beekeeping’ a her speech on the value that full-text digital collections. Michigan’s hard copy was rarely used, but the scanned version in the Making Of America collection gets tons of views. Cool eh?**
