Courses
put your creativity to work
Try something new. Learn skills from pottery to poetry to permaculture. Explore your creativity, and engage your senses. Find the space to write that book and meet a new community of like-minded friends.
PLEASE NOTE: 2024 Courses will be announced in April!
ADULT CLAY CLASSES
Join us in the clay studio this summer for this all-levels, 5-week pottery class. We’ll get our hands dirty and make great pots!
Join us in the clay studio this summer for this all-levels, 5-week pottery class. We’ll get our hands dirty and make great pots!
Join 2024 Teaching Fellow Kiki Liu for a beginners course to hand building with clay.
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
SUMMER APPLEBARN SERIES
SHORT COURSES
Join 2024 Teaching Fellow Fanxi Sun for a fun introductory course about filmmaking!
Join 2024 Teaching Fellow Michele Parker Randall for a unique and engaging poetry workshop.
Join 2024 Teaching Fellows Allison Dobbs and Leanne Rabesa for two hours of live music, art, and the common grounds between them.
We’re hosting potter Lisa Orr on campus this week to build a quick-firing kiln that is fueled with wood (but not a wood-fired kiln!).
Come explore different gestures of movement through the lens of puppetry, performance, and vogue with Theresa-Xuan Bui as a means of understanding one’s relationship to self and how we move about the world.
EVENTS
We offer educational farm tours for families, schools, and organizations.
Whether you’re sewing a quilt, knitting a hat, or creating something else entirely, bring your project and work in good company!
Help us plant our flower garden! Share in the joy that comes from planting seeds.
Men's Group is a powerful space for fostering connection, growth, and support among men. Free and open to the public.
We’ve partnered with Essex County Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to offer educational on-farm experiences for families enrolled in the county WIC program.
Calling all High School students! Join CCE and Craigardan on the farm this summer.
Join us for our annual summer event! We’ll celebrate the fire that brings us together, the summer harvest, and the community of artists, scholars, and creatives all around us.
In collaboration with artist Tal Beery and scholar Joshua Moses, Uncertainty Academy: Adirondacks is a unique residency program and roundtable discussion series at Craigardan exploring responses to the uncertainties—both material and psychic—arising from the climate crisis and other cascading crises.
This introduction to beekeeping with novice beekeepers Michele, Sam, and Laura may just inspire you to maintain a hive or two of your own - if we can do it, so can you! Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.
Stop by the kiln house any time on Wednesday (5am - 10pm) to experience the wood kiln firing - a centuries-old mix of science and art!
KIDS + TEENS
Join us on the farm any or every Tuesday from May 7 through October 7. During volunteer hours you will have the hands-on experience of working on our small-scale, diversified farm!
Help us plant our flower garden! Share in the joy that comes from planting seeds.
Join us at Blueberry Hill Trails in Elizabethtown every Tuesday evening (weather permitting) for group mountain bike rides with local guru Mark Nassan. This is geared towards beginners but all levels are welcome for this fun, supportive, laid back group ride.
In this workshop you will learn how to compost food scraps, leaf litter, and more in your own backyard. We’ll cover different methods, dealing with wildlife, and how to make good quality compost that your plants will love.
We’ve partnered with Essex County Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to offer educational on-farm experiences for families enrolled in the county WIC program.
Calling all High School students! Join CCE and Craigardan on the farm this summer.
Join us for our annual summer event! We’ll celebrate the fire that brings us together, the summer harvest, and the community of artists, scholars, and creatives all around us.
This introduction to beekeeping with novice beekeepers Michele, Sam, and Laura may just inspire you to maintain a hive or two of your own - if we can do it, so can you! Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
Craigardan’s 320 acre campus is a patchwork of new fields and previously logged forest navigated on a network of skidder tracks and new trails. We need your help clearing debris, stabilizing soils, and creating paths to open up new possibilities for walking, skiing, biking, and exploring the property.
WEEKLY EVENTS
Join us on the farm any or every Tuesday from May 7 through October 7. During volunteer hours you will have the hands-on experience of working on our small-scale, diversified farm!
Join us at Blueberry Hill Trails in Elizabethtown every Tuesday evening (weather permitting) for group mountain bike rides with local guru Mark Nassan. This is geared towards beginners but all levels are welcome for this fun, supportive, laid back group ride.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Join us for two beautiful fall evenings of informal storytelling and sharing with Yoko. Refreshments provided. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.
In this workshop you will learn how to compost food scraps, leaf litter, and more in your own backyard. We’ll cover different methods, dealing with wildlife, and how to make good quality compost that your plants will love.
Donnaldson Brown will be in conversation with Kate Moses and will read from her debut novel Because I Loved You (published Spring ’23).
In this course we will explore one pathway towards becoming effective liberation workers - the development of a liberatory consciousness through awareness, acceptance, analysis, action, and accountability. This is a two session course offered from 6PM - 8pm, August 15 + 22.
Come learn how we care for and manage our livestock, how these animals fit into an integrated living landscape, and how they really strengthen and provide for all of us. Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.
The poet and performance artist, Theresa-Xuan Bui (they/them), will deliver a three-part series exploring how the nuances of our nation provide an opportunity to understand the complexity of our individual narratives. This is a three session course offered from 6 pm - 7 pm, July 27, August 3rd + 10th.
This introduction to beekeeping with novice beekeepers Michele, Sam, and Laura may just inspire you to maintain a hive or two of your own - if we can do it, so can you! Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.
Join historian Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer for an immersive place-based workshop at Craigardan that invites writers, podcasters, and storytellers of all kinds to return to these Romantic-era narratives of the Adirondacks. This is the third class of his three part series History + Makers. You may choose to attend one or all three classes.
Join Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer for an introduction to the treaties and trickeries that transformed Native American homelands into the Adirondack Park during the 18th and 19th centuries. This class forms part of the three part series History + Makers. You may choose to attend one or all three classes.
If you’re a parent, then you know that little kids often don’t make complete sense. They act bizarrely and their emotions are erratic, even bewildering. This course helps make sense of a child’s behavior, as well as the complex emotions that drive the behavior. This is a two session course offered from 12 PM - 2 PM on July 8 + 15.
This session combines an introduction to the history of the First Makers who worked in this region and a pottery class taught by Katsitsionni Fox from Akwesasne Mohawk Territory and forms part of Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer’s three part series History + Makers. You may choose to attend one or all three classes.
Build Craigardan’s new wood kiln! Join us for a special two-week, wood-fired kiln building workshop with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro!
Announcing the sixth annual Winter Food Summit presented by the Food Justice Working Group at The W!ld Center.
Drop in and fix your own bike with Mark Nassan of Leepoff Cycles! Every other Wednesday from 6 pm to 8 pm. DATES: 06/08; 06/22; 07/06; 07/20; 08/03; 08/17; 08/31
Tuesday evenings group rides through summer: FREE MTB skills rides at the Blueberry Hill Trails. All levels encouraged!
Learn MTB maintenance and repair with Mark Nassan of Leepoff Cycles. **If you can’t make this session, classes will continue throughout the summer, please let us know if you’re interested!
Learn advanced maintenance and repair on your bike with Mark Nassan of Leepoff Cycles. **If you can’t make this session, classes will continue throughout the summer, please let us know if you’re interested!
Learn maintenance and repair for your non-mountain bikes with Mark Nassan of Leepoff Cycles. **If you can’t make this session, classes will continue throughout the summer, please let us know if you’re interested!
Tuesday evenings through October: FREE MTB skills rides at the Blueberry Hill Trails. All levels encouraged! Please register in advance by clicking on this event and filling out the form.
FREE clinic teaching basic bike maintenance and and MTB skills at the Blueberry Hill Trails. All skill levels encouraged! Please register in advance by clicking on this event and filling out the form.
FREE clinic teaching basic bike maintenance and and MTB skills at the Blueberry Hill Trails. All skill levels encouraged!
Join us on the farm this summer as a Community Farm Program Volunteer
Announcing the fourth Annual FEED BACK Summit presented by Craigardan and partners with a very special keynote address by Karen Washington.
Join The Racial Equity Institute and Craigardan for a two-day, Phase 1 Racial Equity Workshop. This will be a virtual event.
Our fourth annual harvest benefit celebration of the food, the farm, and the plate! This year's non-event event will benefit the artists, chefs, farmers, craftspeople, scholars and writers in your community.
Announcing the third annual Winter Food Summit presented by the Food Justice Working Group at The W!ld Center.
Third annual harvest benefit celebration of the food, the farm, and the plate! This year's featured ceramic artist is Kathy Irwin in collaboration with chef Luke Ayres.
Fresh from the garden. Join us for the final class of our summer cooking series in partnership with the Deers Head Inn