February 4

All about processing fiber, taking our sheep’s raw fiber and skirting, washing, carding, dyeing and spinning it into yarn. If there’s time, we’ll make a section of yarn and weave it into a bracelet or keychain. Take a bag of washed fiber home as well as a bag of dyed fiber to continue your wooly adventure at home!

February 25

Want to continue the fun from the Wooly Workshop!? Learn about new ways to play with felt as you explore wet felting and needle felting. You’ll be surprised at how versatile this material is and what you’ll create! Go home with a felted creation of your very own. Check back in the summer for even more felting classes for soap-felting!

March 10

Learn the basics of making your own maple syrup - how to identify sugar maples, tapping, collecting, boiling and more. Go home with a tasty treat! Class is weather-dependent. Alternate class date is March 17.

March 24

How to plan your vegetable garden, using other plants to help crops grow, when to plant which crops and getting started with seeds. Bring home a tray of 6 types of planted seeds to start your home garden as well as some organizational tools to help you with your garden planning.

April 7

From the brooder to the coop - this class will help you get started raising happy healthy chicks. We’ll have chicks at the class so you can learn the best practices for how to hold them, check if they’re healthy and of course, snuggle! Chicks will be available for purchase as well.

April 21

How to keep chickens healthy, safe, well-fed, happy and egg-laying! We’ll also go over how to care for eggs. Take home a starter pack of first aid materials for your flock!

May 5

Learn to make probiotic vegetable treats with just three ingredients! Lacto-fermentation preserves the harvest and improves gut-health. You’ll go home with a small jar of sauerkraut from our own cabbage harvest to continue your fermentation journey at home.

May 19

All the basics of beekeeping, including choosing a good location, setting the bees up, keeping them safe and harvesting honey. Take home some honey sticks and candies.

June 2

Come use all 5 of your senses while you walk through our herb garden and learn how to harvest and use fresh herbs in your cooking. Go home with started seeds, dried herbs, and either cuttings for root stock or started plants!

June 23

Everything you need to know before you bring home your first bunny! We’ll go over inside and outside-kept rabbits including colony-raising, meat breeds, fiber breeds and pet breeds. Snuggle some bunnies during the class too - maybe even take one home!

Date TBA - July

Interested in getting some goats? We have all the info you need to get started, what to expect and how to plan for healthy, happy goats!

Date TBA - July

Learn how easy it is to make cheese in your own kitchen! We’ll make a quick farmer’s cheese that you can make savory or sweet for any occasion.