Feywood Grove
Feywood Grove
Feywood Grove Folk School is a community learning space located at Feywood Grove Farm designed to create an engaging and inclusive space to host skill sharing workshops focused on homesteading topics, community capacity building, and artisanal skills. Having the folk school on the grounds of Feywood Grove Farm allows us to offer many hands-on learning opportunities in our gardens, with our farm animals, and throughout the forest and wild spaces that are protected by Feywood Grove. If you are interested in offering a class in our space, collaborating on an event, or building community capacity with us, please contact us!
Feywood Grove Folk School
Feywood Grove Folk School
2023 Workshops
Our Folkschool welcomes you to join us for these hands-on skill sharing opportunities at our farm.
2023 Workshops
Our Folkschool welcomes you to join us for these hands-on skill sharing opportunities at our farm.
June 4th
2-5pm
June 4th
2-5pm
2023
Orchard Design & Planting
Orchard Design & Planting
This is a hands on workshop where you will learn about designing a holistic orchard using permaculture and food forest concepts to maximize biodiversity and food production in our northern climate. A tour around existing orchard areas on our farm is included as well as hands-on opportunities to plant a new orchard area.
$30
$30
sliding scale available
July 16th
2-5pm
July 16th
2-5pm
2023
Intro to Hand-dyed Fabrics: Tie dye & Shibori
Sponsored by Culture Exchange
Join Artist Elizabeth Burtt Ivey as she guides you through the process of hand-dying your very own fabric creation. In this workshop, participants will use various resist techniques and direct dye application to create a patterned cloth. While some of the folds will concentrate on creating a mandala effect, the sky is the limit with this method. Each participant will create a cloth to take home and create a wall hanging or pillow cover, or just hang and enjoy your colourful masterpiece as is!
FREE
FREE
September 23rd
2-5pm
September 23rd
2-5pm
2023
Fermenting with Brenna Phillips
Sponsored by Culture Exchange
Join Brenna Phillips who will lead participants through a hands on class on fermenting while creating small batches of sauerkraut with local veggies and herbs. The techniques taught in this class can be applied to a variety of fermented products.
FREE
FREE
November 4
2023
Introduction to Hide Tanning with Maggie Oickle
Join experienced tanner, Maggie Oickle, for a full day of hands-on, step by step instructions for turning hides into usable material. Participants will be working alongside Maggie to turn deerskin hides into buckskin. Instruction will include: opportunity to practice every step, 2 tanning methods: brain & egg, tips & tricks to make the process easier, how to process different types of hides. You will also receive
a finished piece of hide to take home! No experience neccessary!
$200 per person
November 12
2023
Homesteading - How to go from dreaming to doing!
Join us to learn how to plan & grow a productive homestead. We will discuss topics including homesteading design, buildings & structures, tool selection, gardening, animal husbandry, food forests, food preservation, value added products, and more.
TBA
TBA
sliding scale available
October 28 & 29
Introduction to Willow Basketry with Sian Turner
Sponsored by Culture Exchange
Over two days we will cover all the basics of making a stake and strand round basket out of willow. Designed for the beginner weaver, the language of willow will be revealed from growing and harvesting willow, to tools, material preparation and methods of weaving from bases to borders. You will learn to pair, rand, wale and turn a border and finally fill your basket with fresh bread or locally picked fruit or any manner of things. Your first practice base will become a decorative wall flower, the second will be your ‘keeper’ basket. A willow basket with good care will last 100 years. No time like now to learn!
Professional basket maker Sian Gwynne Turner has been making baskets for most of her adult life. She has trained with some of the best European makers and as a willow farmer and basket maker she is determined to spread the word and the knowledge of willow basket making so that we have a cultural shift towards more sustainable materials and containers for use in daily life.
2023
$25 material fee
We want to make sure our workshops are available to everyone, so please talk to us about sliding scale options if price is a barrier
We want to make sure our workshops are available to everyone, so please talk to us about sliding scale options if price is a barrier
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation Policy
We allow cancellations up to a week before the workshop with a full refund or to transfer that fee to another workshop in our series later in the year. In the event that we have to cancel, full refunds are offered to all participants, no matter how late the cancellation. If you cancel less than a week before a workshop, we will be unable to refund or transfer your payment. Because we are a small business with limited seating for our workshops, and supplies need to be purchased ahead of time, we can't recoup those costs. As a small business we appreciate your support and understanding in this matter.