Teach a Workshop
We welcome proposals from crafters, makers, artisans, and farmers who would like to teach here.
The best workshops teach a traditional skill by doing it.
What we look for
- A craft you practice: our instructors make, craft, or farm for a living, or close to it, and many are known in their field.
- Something to take home: each workshop ends with a finished piece or a skill students can use on their own.
- A reason to be here: the strongest workshops use the farm: its mills, gardens, animals, timber, or dye plants.
How it works
- You send a proposal with the form on this page, at any time of year.
- Our program manager reads every proposal and gets in touch if your workshop is a good fit for the school, or if there are questions about it.
- We talk with you about the workshop, dates, studio, and materials, and agree on dates, pay, and the materials fee.
- Your workshop is published in the catalog each November.
Propose a workshop
Sanborn Mills Farm is a nonprofit craft school on a working farm in rural Loudon, New Hampshire. Each season, from April through November, more than 80 instructors teach about 140 workshops here, most of them one to five days long, to students who live nearby and many who travel a long way to learn from them.
A workshop day usually runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an hour for lunch. You will teach in studios built for blacksmithing, woodworking, fiber, and natural dye, with the mills, gardens, and draft animals close by.
We like to feature makers from our own region as well as instructors with a national reputation. Each season is mostly planned in the first half of the year before it, so that is the best time to write, but you are welcome to send a proposal whenever you are ready.