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Feywood Grove Folkschool

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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!

2024
Classes

Orchard Care
March 24, 2pm

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 per participant

Basic Chicken Care & Chick Incubating
​April 28, 2pm

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 per participant

Orchard Design & Planting
May 11, 2pm

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 per participant

Goat Care - the Basics
June 9, 2pm

Meet our small herd of goats and learn how to feed, house, milk, and care for them!   $30 per participant

Preserving the Harvest: Jams & Pickles
July 14, 2pm 

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!

Botanical Infused Honey
July 28, 2pm

Join certified herbalist, Dani Rosenfeld, in a tour of the herb gardens and a hands-on workshop making botanically infused honey. $10 material fee +pay what you can instructor fee

Herbal Remedies
August 18, 2 pm

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. $50 per participant - participant will get a balm to take home

Pottery: Botanical Slabs
September 8, 2pm

Join potter, Demmarest Haney, for a foraging walk to collect botanical material and then learn how to press the botanicals into pottery slabs to make unique surface decorations.  Slabs will then be turned into either plates or windchimes (participants choice).  This class is a great way to connect with nature and is intended for adults, no prior experience is necessary.  Finished pottery can be picked up after October 6th.  $75 per participant - includes instruction and all materials and firing for one large plate or wind chime (stoneware).

Pottery: Mushroom Mugs
September 15, 2pm

Join potter, Demmarest Haney, for a guided class in constructing and sculpting your own mushroom mug.  This class is a great way to connect with your creative side and explore the whimsy of clay and sculpting.  This class is intended for adults and no prior experience is necessary.  Finished pottery can be picked up after October 6th.  $90 per participant - includes instruction and all materials and firing for one hand built mushroom mug (stoneware).

Pottery: Sgraffito Mugs
September 22, 2pm

Join potter, Demmarest Haney, for a guided class in the surface decoration technique of sgraffito.  Participants will choose a pre-made hand thrown mug to decorate with detailed colored slips and sgraffito.  This class is intended for adults and no prior experience is necessary.  Finished pottery can be picked up after October 6th.  $90 per participant - includes instruction and all materials and firing for one hand thrown sgraffito decorated mug (stoneware).

Felting: Wet Felted Bag
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Learn how to use the technique of wet felting wool to create a completely unique to you small bag.  The color themes for this class are inspired by fall and the natural environment with hues of green, yellow, brown, and red.  Participants who register for both felting courses will have the option of using their felted bag as a base for the adornments made in the needle felting class.  This class is intended for adults and no prior experience is necessary.  $65 per participant, includes all materials and instruction.

Felting: Needle Felted Mushrooms
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Learn how to use the technique of needle felting wool to sculpt a collection of whimsical mushrooms.  The sculpted mushrooms can be added to the wet felted bags as decoration for students who completed that class. For those not attaching the mushrooms to a bag, learn how to mount your mushrooms on a slice of wood as a unique decorative sculpture.  This class is intended for adults and no prior experience is necessary.  $65 per participant, includes all materials and instruction.

Seed Saving
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​Join us for a tour of the garden and learn hands on methods about how to save seeds from your own garden and wild plants. ​We will discuss the best methods for selecting plants to save seed from, drying techniques, and how to preserve the seeds for the best germination rates.  We will also share saved seeds from the class demonstration.  $30 per participant.

Cheesemaking: Intro to Soft Cheeses and Yogurt
November 10, 2pm

Join home cheesemaker, Demmarest Haney, on a journey of making fresh soft cheeses and yogurt from scratch.  The class includes a detailed demonstration as well as a class discussion about all of the best methods to succeed at home cheesemaking.  The cheese stars of this class will be chevre/fromage blanc, as well as ricotta and yogurt.  $40 per participant.

Cheesemaking: Intro to Hard Cheeses
November 17, 2pm

Join home cheesemaker, Demmarest Haney, as she demonstrates the process for making hard cheeses from scratch.  The class includes a detailed demonstration as well as a class discussion about all of the best methods to success at home cheesemaking.  The cheese stars of this class will be Havarti & Feta, but the same methods can be applied to all hard cheeses.  $40 per participant.

Wreathmaking
November 24, 2pm

This hands-on class will lead participants through the process of creating their own unique holiday wreath using natural materials sustainably harvested from our farm and local environment.  $50 per participant.

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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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