Learn New Things

Dan is an arborist who has been climbing trees since he was a little boy. Join him during the event where he will show how to set up a climb and demonstrate trimming a tall tree.

Watch as John and Andrew introduce you to the fundamentals of forging (heat treatment, forging, fire types, etc.) displaying a variety of products including an array of tools, ornamental towel racks, hooks and featuring hand forged knives.  

Candy will display the most extensive, ergonomic and extraneous collection of garden tools this side of the divide. She will be describing their uses and help you find the right one(s) for gardening tasks. Her aim is to help you start or keep on gardening more efficiently.

Karen is an artist in table-made hair braiding, also known as hairwork. She has extensive experience and taught or presented at well-known folk schools in midwest (such as, North House Folk School, American Swedish Institute, Nordic Center, Vesterheim Museum). Most recently, Karen apprenticed with master hairworkers in Våmhus, Sweden, the community known for its professional hairworkers and home village of her ancestors.

The Three Rivers Fibershed, an affiliate branch of the national Fibershed, is working to develop regional fiber systems that build soil health and protect the wellbeing of our biosphere here in Minnesota. Learn about how Three Rivers Fibershed is making textiles  from a soil-to-soil perspective. These soil-to-soil systems create fair and equitable local economies that honor all who participate centering on local labor, local fiber, and local natural dyes. 

Come learn all about Get Bentz Farm who raises Icelandic and Icelandic cross sheep on a beautiful farm which overlooks the Cannon River Valley. There they have a variety of products from the sheep including yarn, meat, and sheepskins. They also have a woolen mill which is home to Badgerface Fiber. They source local fibers, paying a fair wage for their raw materials, and turn them into beautiful roving and rug yarn.  

Learn about Fresh Starts Farm certified organic animal feed - including corn, oats, barley, sunflowers, peas, and soybeans - where all of these ingredients flourish using regenerative agriculture methods. Once harvested, learn how these small grains are combined and made into high quality poultry and hog feeds.

Join Burning Daylight Draft Farm share their experiences as a Draft-Horse powered small farm producing lamb and poultry products these past eight years.

Backyard chickens are better than scrolling your phone. Come see for yourself how these funky clucks strut their stuff and maybe learn a thing or two about these warm-blooded, fluffy feathered, egg-laying vertebrates. Audrey is the owner of Egg/Plant Urban Farm Supply Store. She and her family have kept chickens in their St. Paul backyard for over ten years - experiencing both the joys and troubles of keeping chickens in the city. Learn about backyard flock management in an urban setting: such as permits, suitable varieties, feed and nutrition, common health issues, predators, cold-climate care, chickens in the garden, composting chicken waste, etc.