Come build your harmony muscle memory! This workshop is beginner friendly with some group sourced pro-tips & challenges thrown in for the engagement of all levels. Sam will teach diaphragmatic breathing exercises, interval-embodiment and pitch matching games and by the end will sing out with your evolving harmonic selves.

Angie Jackson will guide you through the magical botanical healing herbs used to create bitters and show you ways to utilize them in spirited elixir form. You will sample four elixirs, take home the recipes as well as a small botanical kit to begin crafting your own bitters.

Tina Bury of Kinship Handwork will teach you the skills to sew your own clothes, by hand. Sewing clothes is incredibly empowering and slowing making them by hand adds meditative mindfulness. They fit your body and are uniquely yours. Attendees will go home with their own organic cotton T-shirt.

Sharp tools are safe tools. Nick Carlson will walk you through the ins and outs of keeping your tools in the best shape possible for longevity, precision and, yes, safety.

Learn to explore, identify and harvest your own natural fibers from plants and trees. Make your own rope or necklace to take home using the centuries old and versatile reverse wrap cordage technique.

In one hour we'll blast through the basic concepts of how DIY screen printing works. We'll see the process from start to finish on a demo image and participants can have their hand at printing on fabric and paper. Dig in and learn further on how to use this medium to make your own artwork, album packaging, t-shirts, totes, zines, and more.

Looking to go deeper into your relationship with your garden? An essential element to gardening and farming, seed saving can be easy and will enrich your understanding of the plants around you. We'll cover the basics and demonstrate some techniques that will get you started as a seed saver.

Fermentation is not only a seasoned preservation technique passed down for generations, it is also a way to amp up the nutrition in our stored jars of the harvest. Learn how to make a standard sauerkraut the old way with only salt, veggies, spices and time.

The good folks at Soul Springs will discuss Sepp Holzer and his approach to develop microclimates via hugelbeds and crater gardens, terraces and water forms. Get in on the building of a hugel bed right there at Earthwork Farm.

Learn about the medicinal herbs that are often right under your feet and go through the process from harvesting and processing these herbs to making them into healing balms and chapstick. Each participant takes home their own fresh-made chapstick from class + easy to use handouts to guide your future creations.

Weave a small tapestry or coaster on a loom! Students will learn how to warp, utilize tapestry weaving techniques, and how to finish their pieces. This session will also cover types of yarn and fiber and how to use them in weaving. Students will take home their finished projects.

Learn to identify and utilize edible and medicinal wild plants and trees common in Northern Michigan

Discover the fun and flexibility of making soft cheeses, yogurt, kefir and other cultured milks and creams, and butters. Learn some basics for success with minimal equipment. We'll try them out (and taste them) in class so you can repeat the process at home then celebrate what we learned by hand-cranking our own ice cream.

What is the best tool to use for that? And now that I have the tool, how does this thing work? Woodworker, builder and carver, Tim Pierce of Hornbeam Craft can answer that. Tim will be showing off basic tools in an environment where safety is first, technique is second and badassed-ness is inevitable.

From food, to baskets to rope, dig into to this amazing an and abundant natural resource and get a glimpse of just a few of the many amazing gifts we get from bark.

From going over the basics to tips from pros to actually writing a song as a group, this workshop will be an empowering experiential journey through the songwriting process.

Learn about how medicinal plants that are growing right outside our doors can be used in at-home first aid treatments for your friends and family with herbalist and creator of Bear Earth Herbals, Sierra Bigham.

Learn to nourish yourself from the inside out with TC’s Courtney Lorenz of Cultured Ferments Co. This class teaches brewing kombucha at home in a delicious, safe, and efficient manner. Brewing at home brings cost savings as well as nutritious probiotics into your home.

Reflexology can bring stress relief, relaxation and improved circulation of oxygen, blood and energy. It can be combined with other healing and health modalities for synergistic benefits. Best of all, the only tools needed are your hands and your heart.

Learn to craft and tend your fire well with both ancient and modern techniques.  Get to know the plants and trees that aid us in fire-making. Hands on, all levels of experience welcome.