Community STEAM
Spend time among the trees
Bring your family, your kids, your friends and come spend time among the trees. Listen to the birds, search for turtle shells, deer trails, and forest tracks.
For a learning-walk, download the Seek app from iNaturalist and scan leaves, berries, and bugs with your phone to identify the species. For a meditative walk, enjoy the sounds of stillness. For a guided adventure, ask the welcome center for our family-friendly forest scavenger hunt!
Forest Walks
Handy DIY and Tool Introduction
Basic tool know-how is an important skill no matter where you are! At home or on the road, knowing how to build or fix what you need saves you time and money. Plus, it’s a huge confidence boost!
No prior knowledge required. Whether you’ve never heard of a carpenter’s square or you’re looking to brush up on your building skills, all are welcome to this introductory class.
Building Right Angles
Paint the Forest!
Forage for your favorite leaf, then join your friends and our painting instructors in making beautiful art!
Compare leaves, learn a little about the trees and pigments that make the amazing array of forest colors. Then bring your leaf back to the painting station!
Check out our demonstrations for making several styles of leaf painting, or go your own way! We have paint brushes and canvas blanks, you bring the creativity and laughter!
You can wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy, bring a smock from home, or borrow a smock from our stash. For further craftiness, come join our intro to sewing class and make a painter’s smock!
Be-LEAF You Can Paint!
Sew a Painter’s Smock or Cooking Apron!
Sewing is a great skill for reparing clothing and other fabric items and producing beautiful garments and practical fabric items!
Join our instructors for a zero to hero course in sewing! Learn to cut and pin a fabric shape, set up a sewing machine, and basic hand stitches! Draw from our fabric stash, bring your own bolt, or bring a few items of similar fabric type to patchwork into a unique template! (If you want to upcycle your own fabric but you’re not sure what types or how much to bring, please email us ahead of time and our instructors will be happy to help you plan!)
At the end of the class, take home your own a painter’s smock or cooking apron. You can bring your smock back for our paint the forest days!
Introduction to Sewing
Gardening Everywhere
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Small Scale
Have a windowsill? A sunny patch? From growing potatoes year-round in a five-gallon bucket to small-scale windowsill aquaponics, there are many ways to grow delicious, nutritous foods in any space! Come with measurements, a description, or a quick sketch of your growing space to brainstorm ideas during the course, or just come learn new skills to experiment with at home.
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Large Scale
Food security and economics resilience starts right here, in the earth. Whether you’re growing for your family or a small business, increasing crop yields, decreasing reliance on pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and becoming better able to weather storms is better for the environment and your bottom line.
Learn to shoot like Robin Hood!
We have bows for beginners and ranges for experts. Borrow ours or bring your own!
We will be offering classes for intro to archery, or you can book the range for your group. Check the calendar for class offerings, reach out to us to request an individual our group class, or to book the range!
We offer sliding scale pricing for community groups and locals!
Archery
Your Thoughts Here!
Are you interested in a specific program? Do you have a great idea for a community activity? Send us an email of your ideas!
What we guarantee: A Response. We aim for less than two weeks! If you haven’t heard from us by then, please DO reach out!
What we will attempt: To bring your vision to life! If there is alignment between your awesome idea and our mission, we will contact you to discuss further details.