FEBRUARY NEWS!

Last weekend's 3-legged stool carving class with Rose Holdorf and Duncan Ellinwood!

Tarweed's Spring classes are underway and our classroom is busy with students learning about chocolate making, lichens, woodcarving animals, broom making, boosting immunity with herbs, and building wooden stools! We are excitedly preparing our next season of classes that will take place May-July, and we look forward to sharing more information with you soon. In the meantime, we still have spots left in a few of our upcoming classes, with a special highlight below for an upcoming foods class and it's connection to the wonderful not-for-profit community center, Manyworld!

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GRATITUDE AND LOOKING FORWARD IN THE NEW YEAR

We've received special funding from Sustainable Northwest to help connect folks to visit sustainably managed land to harvest materials for projects and are launching a new class series. First up is Make a Wooden Rake with Kiko Denzer!

As a new year takes root, we feel incredibly humbled by the support and love we've received from all of you in 2025. Thank you! Your support helps Tarweed grow our capacity to offer more classes, secure scholarship funding for students in every class, throw a few more free gatherings and crafty parties, and so much more.

In this month's newsletter, keep reading to learn more about:

• Upcoming classes through April, with some new class spaces open

• A new class series, harvesting your own materials in locally managed forests

• An update on the Fiber Arts Group

• Tarweed Folk School in the radio! Listen to our interview on KLCC

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LAST WEEK OF OUR FUNDRAISER AND REFLECTIONS FROM OUR YEAR

A full room of friends at our Holiday Market this month. I (Rose) look at this photo often - it is a marvelous display of the warmth, energy, and joy and I feel proud to reference as part of what we do.

This week marks the 6th and final story as part of our series and it comes from Rose Holdorf. The pace of the season will soon pick up again, but it is in the slower times that we can reflect on what we do and how we do it. After all, folk schools are made as we go, and in collaboration with others.

Read Rose's letter below and see our list of upcoming Spring classes, some of which still have spots left. We wish you all a Happy New Year and look forward to 2026 and our continued participation in the community!

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