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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

2023 Workshops

Our Folkschool welcomes you to join us for these hands-on skill sharing opportunities at our farm.  

March 26th

2-5pm

2023

Orchard Care

Join us to learn about orchard care.  We will discuss plant care, pruning, grafting, and other details of keeping a thriving home orchard.  There will be hands-on demonstrations and a tour of our different fruit producing trees and shrubs.  

$30

sliding scale available

April 30th

2-5pm

2023

Basic Chicken Care & Chick Incubating

Meet our flock of heritage breed chickens and learn how to care for your own flock including breed selection, incubation, feeding, watering, housing, fencing, and basic health needs.

$30

sliding scale available

May 28

2023

Goat Care - the basics

Meet our small herd of goats and learn how to feed, house, milk, and care for them!  

$30

sliding scale available

June 4th

2-5pm

2023

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

sliding scale available

June 11th

2-5pm

2023

Tapestry Weaving by Elizabeth Burtt Ivey

In this hands on workshop, you will be guided through the creation of your very own tapestry wall hanging.  A variety of methods and materials will be covered.  All materials will be provided.  

$55


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


July 23rd

2-5pm

2023

Preserving the Harvest : Jams & pickles

This is a hands on workshop about food preserving through the process of hot water bath canning.  We will focus on jams & pickles in this session!

$30

sliding scale available

August 27th

2-5pm

2023

Herbal Remedies

Join us for a tour of the herb gardens and a hands-on workshop making herbal remedies.  We will explore balms, teas, tinctures, and simple syrups.

$30

sliding scale available

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


October 15th

2-5pm

2023

 

Seed Saving with Demmarest Haney

Sponsored by Culture Exchange

Join us for a tour of our gardens and learn the best methods for saving seed for next year, including plant selection, drying techniques, and how to preserve for the best germination.

 

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

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

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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.

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