The Institute of Sustainable Nutrition

08/26/2021

TIOSN is resuming our year-long hands-on program in a new location lush with beautiful gardens, mature and diverse medicinal plants, pollinator flowers, fruit trees, berries and vegetables!

04/22/2021

After a hailstorm that covered the ground with ice balls, heavy winds, overnight temps of 27 degrees, and snow that blanketed the ground this morning, the peach blossoms have hung in there... building resiliency in our soils, plants, and ourselves. Now let's hope that beautiful tree can do it again tonight!

03/30/2021

TIOSN will be live and in person starting in September!!! We will be posting our class dates soon so stay tuned!

03/09/2021

This channel is meant to empower gardeners around the world with the knowledge needed to grow healthy plants, healthy food. It all starts with the soil, the ...

02/15/2021

Starting this Saturday!

Revitalize your garden—and go beyond compost—by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for

02/10/2021

In this innovative online Garden Program Nigel Palmer, author of “The Regenerative Grower’s Guide To Garden Amendments” and instructor at TIOSN, will cover many of the concepts and recipes outlined in his book. Learn about the local, low-cost materials available in your community and how to turn these into biological and nutrient-rich amendments. Program classes will form a cumulative understanding. A soil-plant model will be introduced and built on in each successive class to correlate defined terms and practices used to sustainably regenerate the soil year after year.

The program will consist of five, two-hour classes, Saturday mornings from 10:00 – 12:00 PM Eastern time. Follow the link to see how to sign up!

https://www.tiosn.com/blog

02/05/2021

The Sustainable Regenerative Growing Series
Online Program

In this innovative online Garden Program Nigel Palmer, author of “The Regenerative Grower’s Guide To Garden Amendments” and instructor at TIOSN, will cover many of the concepts and recipes outlined in his book. Learn about the local, low-cost materials available in your community and how to turn these into biological and nutrient-rich amendments. Program classes will form a cumulative understanding. A soil-plant model will be introduced and built on in each successive class to correlate defined terms and practices used to sustainably regenerate the soil year after year.

The program will consist of five, two-hour classes, Saturday mornings from 10:00 – 12:00 PM Eastern time. Follow the link below for the details!

In this innovative online Garden Program Nigel Palmer, author of “The Regenerative Grower’s Guide To Garden Amendments” and instructor at TIOSN, will cover many of the concepts and recipes outlined in his book. Learn about the local, low-cost materials available in your community and how to tu...

12/31/2020

Please consider joining this important symposium. If you use our link to sign up, 10% of the ticket cost is given to our Diversity Scholarship at The Institute Of Sustainable Nutrition. Thank you!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-organic-project-virtual-symposium-can-real-organic-farming-be-saved-tickets-123691000111?aff=ROP2021PARTNER&afu=503339563753&fbclid=IwAR2JBhUYyaXgfxSFhTX_9jfYobtfTmY159cWWc8U5zuzw1AYzHeBVD8UQ_4

09/16/2020

Another Podcast with Nigel. This one is with Scott Man of The Permaculture Podcast. I really like this one, take a listen:
https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2020/diy-garden-amendments-nigel-palmer/

My guest today is Nigel Palmer, author of The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments. In our conversation, which begins with his biography, he shares his inspiration from the work of John Kempf and Dan Kittredge, along with the JADAM Korean farming method, to create garden amendments at ...

08/19/2020

Nigel is interviewed by Moms Across America

05/05/2020

Nigel and I got a call from an alumni that the hive at the farm had swarmed. This formation in the photo is called bearding. Scout bees then go out and look for a new home that they can relocate to. They are now busy bees in their new hive up in our tree fort, (safest place from the bears).

03/16/2020

Hope this finds you healthy and well. We certainly have had a string a beautiful days to remind us of how spring feels, lovely.
We are having to make the difficult decision to cancel the workshop scheduled for Saturday, March 21 with Bryan O'Hara. We are going to reschedule it and will send something out once we see how things begin to shape up. In the meantime, take some time to be outside and watch the amazing spring changes going on around us, it is some of our best medicine.

Warmly,
Joan

03/01/2020

Spring Gardening
With The Region’s Best Farmer,
Bryan O’Hara


Join The Institute Of Sustainable Nutrition and The CT Chapter of The Bionutrient Food Association, for a cup of tea and presentation by the renowned CT farmer, Bryan O’Hara. Bryan is an expert at producing high-end food year round in CT. Every gardener and farmer will want to hear Bryan’s methods for obtaining such high yields of healthy, nutrient rich food. His new book will be available for purchase and signing so later you can settle in for a good read that is sure to add to your garden joy and get you ready for planting this spring.

When: Saturday, March 21, 10:00 – 12:00
Where: Holcomb Farm, Workshop space
113 Simsbury Rd
Granby, CT 06090

RSVP: 860 764-9070 or email joan@tiosn.com be sure to let us know if you want us to hold a book for you to purchase and have signed. When we buy from the author a larger % of the proceeds go directly to them.

01/23/2020

https://www.tiosn.com/post/trees-for-teas-and-more

Looking forward to another wonderful TIOSN event. Hope to see you there!

01/09/2020

The Institute of Sustainable Nutrition integrates traditional food wisdom with the science of nutrition creating an innovative model of holistic health education.
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Our comprehensive culinary program provides the tools, knowledge, and motivation needed to cook and to eat in balance with the seasons and the environment. As the kitchen is the heart of a healthy home, the TIOSN kitchen is the place where nutrition, foraging, and the harvest come together. Classes feature locally sourced produce and products used to create recipes that sustain good health, and lay a solid foundation for continued experimentation and learning in your own home.

Here we have a throwback to one of our favorite guest speakers, Jonathan Stevens of Hungry Ghost Bread located in Northampton, MA. Guest speakers bring a fresh, sometimes surprising, always interesting exploration into the weekend subjects. We are always grateful for these opportunities to collaborate, and we believe the best way to learn is by doing.

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11/27/2019

We have been busy in the kitchen medicine classes working on Winter Health Care. We have made our famous Elderberry Elixir, amazing fire cider and herbal vitamin C pastilles. We learned how to make Ghee and then used it to make delicious turmeric paste, so tasty!

11/06/2019

Another lovely year gets underway. TIOSN started year seven in September! Missing Sue, Jasmine, and Malinda.

10/31/2019

See that frost? It’s almost time to put the garden to bed for the winter! There’s still a little time left for some of those transplants you’ve been putting off, or splitting up some perennials, but hurry before the ground freezes!
What are some of your practices when it comes time to tuck everything in? Do you mineralize your soil? Do you mulch? Do you have any last minute harvests left?
What do you do to prepare your garden for that inevitable blanket of snow?