

Bushcraft | Traditional Skills | Emergency Preparedness (3 Workshops)
3 Workshop offerings:
Learning from Traditional Cultures: Essential Herbal First Aid Kit
Knife, Hatchet, Saw: The 3 most essential tools for Bushcraft & their many uses
Basic Leatherwork

Fermenting, Food Preservation, Home Brewing: 4 Workshops
4 workshop offerings:
All About Fermentation
Best Ways to preserve food long term: drying, freezing, canning, salting, smoking, root cellaring, fermenting, pickling, etc.
How to Make Fermented Drinks from Around the World
Home Brewing Mead

Homesteading & Resiliency: 4 Workshops
4 workshop offerings:
Biking and eBiking
Starting a Successful Home Business or Side Hustle
Making an outdoor cob oven (all-day workshop)
Growing Microgreens, Sprouts, and shoots: Gardening in small spaces

(2-Day) Herb Weekend: 13 Workshops
13 Workshop offerings:
Saturday Morning:
Native Plant Herb Walk in Pollinator Garden
Introduction to Medicinal Herbs for Health and Vitality
Nervous System Support in these trying times
Saturday Afternoon:
Native Plant Herb Walk in Pollinator Garden
Tea Talkin' with Hannah, farmer and herbalist of Poppysol Farm + Apothecary
Herbs during period of Conception, during Pregnancy and during Lactation
Saturday Evening:
Optional Dinner
Panel Discussion and Questions
Optional rustic Camping
Sunday Morning:
Wild Plant Herb Walk on River Trail
Cooking with Herbs
Aromatic distillation
Sunday Afternoon:
Botanical Cream Making
Digestive Health and Immune Support including Making Elderberry Syrup.
Wild Plant Herb Walk on River Trail
Native Plant Walk in Pollinator Garden – Growing and Harvesting your own Tea herbs
Closing and visit vendor area

Skills that Build Community and Understanding: 5 Workshops
5 workshop offerings:
Storytelling
Song Leading / Songwriting / Community Singing
Starting or Joining an Intentional Community
Journaling / Writing for Purpose, Understanding and Community Upliftment
Nonviolent Communication: Skills for Good Interaction on Challenging Topics

Green Woodworking: 3 Workshops
Green Woodworking Workshops on May 17:
Intro to Spoon Carving, Bowl Making & Green Woodworking
Making Bark Baskets
Green Woodworking Intermediate: Peddle Powered Lathe

Fiber & Folk: Offered in Collaboration with Piedmont Fibershed
5 workshop offerings:
Working with Natural Dyes from NC Piedmont
Raising Sheep & Goats
Simple Weaving Using a Variety of Materials
Wild Medicinal & Edible Plant Walk
Beginning & Intermediate Fiber Spinning (All-Day)
Past Workshops
FAQs
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We are enthusiastic about sharing skills with folks of all ages! There is no minimum age for attendance. Our youth rate applies to attendees ages 6-18. Attendance is free for children 5 and under. We require that youth be accompanied by an adult who is attending the same workshop when they are here at the Folk School.
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For the events that include lunch, we are eager to share with you the bounty from our gardens and kitchens. We typically have a wide range of options, including gluten free, dairy free, vegan and vegetarian. If you have any concerns about whether the food will suit you or not, feel free to reach out and/or bring along some food for yourself.
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Yes, work-trade options are available. We do not want the cost of the workshop to keep anyone who is interested from attending. Usually the work-trade involves 3 hours of work-trade in exchange for a 3-hour workshop. Ideally, work-trade hours are to be worked off prior to taking the workshop. It may be possible to do some work-trade hours remotely (help with marketing and promotion, for example). Especially helpful is to do work-trade hours the day before workshops. It may be possible to do some work-trade the day of workshops, if set-up in advance.
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There is no childcare at this time, but we do encourage families to participate together. We offer free attendance to children 5 and under, and a youth rate for folks ages 6-18. Please be mindful that all children and youth must have an accompanying adult attending the same workshop.
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There is signage at the end of Rising Sun Way directing one where to park.