Heritage Craft & Basketry
The farm grows its own willow in a coppice, and basketry is one of the oldest crafts taught here. Black ash, willow, sweetgrass, cattail, and even invasive bittersweet vines are woven into baskets made to carry something.
Heritage craft gathers the rest of the work that households once did by hand: brooms, leather bags, engraved powder horns, decorated eggs, marbled paper, and lime plaster. Each workshop teaches a method that has been passed from maker to maker, and each sends you home with the object and the knowledge of how to make another.
Workshops
The 2027 workshops in this discipline will be listed here on Saturday, November 28 at 8 a.m.
Registration opens Monday, November 30 at 8 a.m.
The work, up close
Where classes meet
Workshops meet in the farm's studios, shops, and barns, and some spend part of the day outdoors. Your studio is confirmed at check-in on the first morning.