ALL CLASSES

Learn to sew a basic top using recycled fabric or scraps, taught by career costume designer, Kristine Berg.

Skip your exercise class and learn to turn a wooden bowl using foot power and elbow grease!

Explore working with wool roving and a barbed needle to create a Mother Earth being and basket full of harvest vegetables and fruits.

Build resilience in the winter months in this evening class that will help build skills in building immunity and stimulating immunity when a challenge arises.

Learn to repair blue jeans using patches, functional embroidery, and a mixture of hand and machine sewing.

Students will learn the basics of working with birch bark.

A hands-on exploration of traditional materials, fire-starting and fire-carrying tools and techniques.

Make your very own unique and gorgeous wreath from foraged natural materials!

We’ll cover all the basics: safety, stance, stroke, sharpening, equipment strategies and choices, and basic grass management.

Earth pigments are a viable and potent medium. Learn how to ethically forage, process, and prepare local minerals into fine pigment

Join us to look at, identify, and learn cultivation of some of the many herbal allies that live in the Willamette Valley.

Students will learn about building reciprocal relationships with plants around us.

Learn about holistic approaches to addressing stress and anxiety with diet, lifestyle, and herbs.

Make your own whisk broom! These common tools have a long and diverse history; everybody sweeps!

Come learn all about dairy goat husbandry and how to make fresh chèvre cheese!

Learn machining and woodworking skills to build a small angled bookshelf.

Rooted weaving combines traditional ecological knowledge, thoughtful gathering of nearby materials like cattail and juncus, and techniques for weaving a small basket.

Learn the basics of willow and mixed bark basketry using local colorful weaving materials!

This class will introduce participants to the art of traditional blacksmithing.

Learn and practice various woodworking techniques to hang a gorgeous fern on your wall.

Come learn woodworking techniques and how to make a bluebird house out of cedar!

Come join us on the job site and become part of the crew as we layout, cut, and raise a timber frame oven shelter.

Come learn what medicinal plants grow well in our bioregion and how to help them succeed.

Learn the basics of woodcarving and knife skills in this multi-week exploration of hand carved animals, like horses, chickens, pigs, and all kinds of fauna!

Students will learn to focus on enjoyment of watching birds and their behavior in addition to identification.

House native pollinators in your garden by building your own house for Mason Bees!

Explore the joys of working with birch bark while learning to weave a star.

Refine your tools and learn to set up a Japanese-style woodworking chisel. This class is partnered with the toolbox class the following three days - a great duo!

Weave plainweave bands on a backstrap style rigid heddle.

Build a simple solar cooker and learn the basics of how to use it all summer long.

Combine design and function to make a sleek and modern rack with flip down hooks for hanging coats and bags.

Students will learn the basics of wrapping zen rocks.

Come learn the basics of throwing on the pottery wheel and hand-building.

Gather with us as we go through all the steps for building a wood-fired oven out of the earth underfoot.

Students will learn multiple traditional weaving techniques with cedar bark.

Make a series of flat or shallow willow basketry trays in a mix of beautiful colors- round, square cornered and leaf or boat shaped.

Curious to learn how to repair your knit clothing, but are unsure how or where to begin? Darning worn out socks is an excellent place to start!

Weave a willow shopping basket, suitable for the farmers market, grocery store, or harvesting vegetables from your own garden!

Build yourself a set of saw horses using fundamental principles of timber framing.

Students will gather plant materials, and print their images on paper, using heat, pressure, and natural pigments.

Learn how to use a simple penknife or pocketknife to cut the shapes and curves of different letters into soft and hard woods.

Come learn to use various tools and techniques to forge a basic blacksmith’s knife!

Pound black ash logs and process material into splint for basketry with visiting teacher, April Stone!

Students will learn all the steps involved in the manufacture of an Irish Creel style willow basket.

Learn about sustainable land management, harvest materials, and practice various woodworking techniques to make your own wooden rake!

Students will learn about natural dyes and eco printing by dyeing an organic cotton market bag.

The beauty of spoon carving requires just wood, two knives, saw and/or hatchet, and a place to sit - no vise, mallet, workbench, or noisy power tools needed.

Learn traditional joinery techniques to build a wooden bench at Highland Woodshop!

This four part series is an invitation for curiosity, a dance of our hands/bodies/experiences with clay and listening.

Do you start each day with a bowl of yogurt and granola? This class will help bring this staple meal closer to home.