November 2011

Semester Program Tiny House

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
For the past 14 weeks the twelve students enrolled in the Semester in Sustainable Design/Build have been hard at work, designing and building an innovative tiny house on wheels! Check out their progress with the slideshow below and the website they created at: www.yestermorrowsemester.org.Join us Friday, December 9th for the public debut of...

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What Are They Doing Now?

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Ever wonder what former Yestermorrow interns are up to? Here are a few updates from around the globe…Hannah Barrows was married this summer. She’s been living in Scotland where she recently finished her graduate degree, and currently she’s traveling in Nepal volunteering on farms and planning to build a house in the not-too-distant future....

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Reflections from a Hurricane Irene volunteer

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Small Step Farm is our neighbor just across the street and was entirely submerged under 8 feet! of the overflowing Mad River. On October 5th we had a wonderful team of 6 volunteers who spent the day digging debris out of a drainage swale and uprooting knotweed which threatened to make the fields unplantable.I invite you to read an article...

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A thank you

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Dear friends and neighbors,In honor of Veterans Day, I’d like to take this opportunity to recognize the efforts of the Mad River Valley Veterans for Peace. In October 2005 they came together to organize a powerful memorial to soldiers killed in the Iraq war through the planting of white flags in honor of each fallen soldier. After...

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Professional Semester in Integrative Design/Build

By Kate Stephenson, Executive Director
Yestermorrow is now offering a new intensive design/build program created for professionals and advanced students: the Professional Semester in Integrative Design/Build. This is an exciting new and unique 20-week immersion curriculum that gives you the opportunity to gain important hands-on technical skills combined with a strong design-...

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