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2022
​Michigan Folk School Schedule
New Courses for 2022
  • Making a Heirloom Block Plane ​
  • Making a Benchmark Shoulder Plane 
  • Crafting a Superior Spokeshave
  • ​Beginning To Wire Work: Findings
  • ​Wire Weaving Basics  ​
  • Shou Sugi Ban Workshop 
  • ​Basic Organic Garden Design
  • Seed Starting Skills ​
  • Handmade Classic Leather Tote Workshop  
  • Leather Archery Arm Guard, Shooting Tab & Pocket Quiver
  • ​Basic Composting
  • Intro To Cooking: Lasagna
  • Mother Sauces
  • Week Night Dinners
  • Into To Guitar
  • Intermediate Folk Guitar
  • Creating a Custom Leather Wallet
  • ​Natural Earth Plaster & Sculpted Walls
  • Leather Craft 101 INTENSIVE
  • ​Chairmaker's Toolbox
  • Organic Garden Maintenance & Pest Control  ​
  • Growing Tomatoes Successfully  ​
  • ​Creating Handmade Leather Sneakers
  • ​Handmade Leather Dog Collar & Leash
  • ​Designing & Crafting Leather Sneakers  
  • ​Handmade Leather Messenger Bag Workshop
  • ​Decorative Garlic & Onion Braiding & Storage ​
  • The Culinary Herb Garden
  • Cajun & Creole
  • Cooking By Campfire​
  • Date Night In The Kitchen
  • ​Wood Fire Pizza Basics
  • Cooking With Kids

​April, 2022
  • 4/2 Soap Making 101  
  • 4/2 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 4/2 Soap Making 101  
  • 4/3 Soap Making: Exploring Color, Texture & Swirls  
  • 4/3 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 4/3 Herbal First Aid Kits  
  • 4/5 Backyard Edible Mushrooms  
  • 4/ 6 Backyard Edible Mushrooms  
  • 4/ 7 Shou Sugi Ban Workshop  
  • 4/ 8 Seed Starting Skills  
  • 4/9 & 4/10 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing
  • 4/9 & 4/10 Natural Earth Plaster & Sculpted Walls
  • 4/12 Crafting a Coin Ring  
  • 4/13 Blacksmithing: OPEN STUDIO  
  • 4/16 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 4/16 Handmade Classic Leather Tote Workshop  
  • 4/19 & 4/21 Creating a Custom Leather Wallet  
  • 4/22 & 5/18 Basic Organic Garden Design
  • 4/22 Date Night In The Kitchen​ 
  • 4/23 Mother Sauces
  • 4/23 & 4/24 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 4/23, 4/24 & 5/1 Leather Craft 101 INTENSIVE  
  • 4/26 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop  
  • 4/26 & 4/27 Sandal Making Workshop  
  • ​4/30 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 4/30 Leather Craft 101

​May, 2022
  • 5/3 Leather: OPEN STUDIO
  • 5/3,5/17,5/22 Intermediate Folk Guitar
  • 5/5 Shou Sugi Ban Workshop  
  • 5/6 Multiple Dates - Building a Teardrop Trailer  
  • 5/7 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 5/7 Sandal-Making Workshop  
  • 5/8 Creating Handmade Leather Sneakers  
  • 10 Handmade Leather Dog Collar & Leash  
  • 11 Kitchen Potager Gardens  
  • 12 Wildcrafting w/Jim McDonald: Vernal Virtues  
  • 14 Wildcrafting Medicine Making Workshop: Vernal Virtues  
  • 5/14 & 5/15 Crafting Classic Moc Toe Shoes  
  • 5/14 & 5/15 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 5/17 Cold Forging Copper Bracelets  
  • 5/17 & 5/19 Handmade Classic Leather Tote Workshop  
  • 5/21 Cooking By Campfire
  • 5/21 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 5/21 & 5/22 Handmade Leather Messenger Bag Workshop  
  • 5/22 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 5/24 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop  
  • 5/28 & 5/29 Leather Craft 101  
  • 5/28 & 5/29 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing
  • ​5/28 & 5/29 Forging A Dragon Head Hook

​June, 2022
  • 6/2 & 6/3 Chairmaker's Toolbox  
  • 6/4 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 6/4 Spoon Carving All-Day Workshop  
  • 6/4 & 6/5 The Art of Chairmaking: The Windsor Side Chair 
  • 6/5 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 6/7 Growing Microgreens
  • 6/8 Organic Garden Maintenance & Pest Control  
  • 6/11 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 6/15 Blacksmithing: OPEN STUDIO  
  • 6/17 Date Night In The Kitchen
  • 6/18 Blacksmithing 101
  • ​6/18 Cooking With Kids
  • 6/28 Introduction to Millinery: Making a Hat  
  • 6/19 Intermediate Millinery: Blocking, Finishing and Trimming  
  • 6/21 Crafting a Coin Ring 
  • ​6/22 The Culinary Herb Garden
  • 6/25 Millinery: Beginner Straw Hat Blocking  
  • 6/25 & 6/26 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing
  • 6/25 & 6/26 Forging A Dragon Head Hook 
  • 6/28 Beginning To Wire Work: Findings  
  • 6/28 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop  
  • 6/29 Wire Weaving Basics

​July, 2022
  • 7/2 Blacksmithing 101  
  • ​7/5 Growing Great Garlic
  • ​7/6 Basic Composting
  • 7/7 Wildcrafting w/Jim McDonald: Midsummer Medicines  
  • 7/9 Medicine Making Workshop: Midsummer Medicines  
  • 7/9 & 7/10 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 7/9 Making Healing Creams, Salves & Lip Balm  
  • 7/12,7/19,7/26 Intro To Guitar
  • 7/13 Herbal & Compost Teas for the Garden  
  • 7/15 Woodfire Pizza Basics
  • 7/16 Woodfire Pizza Basics ​
  • 7/16 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 7/17 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 7/19 Cold Forging Copper Bracelets  
  • 7/ 23 Earth Oven Workshop  
  • 7/23 & 7/24 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 7/26 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop
  • 7/27 & 9/21 Autumn & Cool Season Gardening ​ 
  • 7/30 Blacksmithing 101
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​August, 2022
  • 8/5 Making a Heirloom Block Plane  
  • 8/6 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 8/7 Pine Needle/Broom Corn Basket Weaving 
  • 8/10 Growing Tomatoes Successfully  
  • 8/13 Cheesemaking Workshop  
  • 8/13 & 8/14 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 8/13 Preserving the Harvest: Lacto-Fermentation  
  • 8/16 Crafting a Coin Ring  
  • 8/17 Blacksmithing: OPEN STUDIO  
  • ​8/17 Decorative Garlic & Onion Braiding & Storage
  • 8/20 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 8/21 Blacksmithing for Kids  ​
  • 8/23 Growing Microgreens
  • 8/23 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop
  • 8/26 Cajun & Creole  
  • 8/27 Cooking By Campfire
  • 8/27 & 8/28 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing
  • 8/27 & 8/28 Forging A Dragon Head Hook

​September, 2022
  • 9/3 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 9/3 & 9/4 Creating a Traditional Longbow  
  • 9/7 & 9/8 Leather Archery Arm Guard, Shooting Tab & Pocket Quiver  
  • 9/9 Woodfire Pizza Basics
  • 9/10 Woodfire Pizza Basics
  • 9/10 & 9/11 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 9/10 & 9/11 Becoming a Fletcher: Arrow Making  
  • 9/13,9/20,9/27 Intermediate Folk Guitar
  • 9/15 Wildcrafting w/Jim McDonald: Wild Roots & Fall Foliage  
  • 9/17 Medicine Making Workshop: Wild Roots and Fall Foliage  
  • 9/17 & 9/18 Crafting Shaker Boxes (morning)
  • 9/17 & 9/18 Crafting Shaker Boxes (afternoon)
  • 9/17 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 9/18 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 9/20 Cold Forging Copper Bracelets 
  • 9/24 & 9/25 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing
  • 9/24 & 9/25 Greenwood Carving on a Spoon Mule/Shave Horse
  • 9/27 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop
  • ​9/28 Seed Saving Skills

​October, 2022
  • 10/1 Blacksmithing 101
  • 10/1 & 10/2 Natural Earth Plaster & Sculpted Walls
  • 10/2 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 10/5 & 10/6 Introduction to Millinery: Making a Hat  
  • 10/7 Date Night In The Kitchen
  • 10/8 Introduction to Broom Craft
  • 10/8 Intro To Cooking: Lasagna
  • 10/8 & 10/9 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 10/9 Intermediate Broom Craft: Shaker Brooms
  • 10/11 BroomCraft: OPEN STUDIO​
  • 10/13 Growing Microgreens
  • 10/18 Crafting a Coin Ring  
  • 10/19 Blacksmithing: OPEN STUDIO  
  • 10/22 Creating Handmade Leather Sneakers  
  • 10/22 & 10/23 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing
  •  10/22 & 10/23 Forging A Dragon Head Hook
  • 10/23 Crafting a Custom Leather Belt  
  • 10/23 Handmade Leather Dog Collar & Leash 
  • 10/25 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop  
  • 10/29 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 10/29 & 10/30 Leather Craft 101

​November, 2022
  • 11/1 Leather: OPEN STUDIO
  • 11/5 Blacksmithing 101  
  • ​11/6 Forging A Fire Poker
  • 11/5 & 11/6 Designing & Crafting Leather Sneakers  
  • 11/8 Handmade Leather Dog Collar & Leash  
  • 11/10 Crafting a Custom Leather Belt  
  • 11/11 Weeknight Dinners
  • 11/12 Mother Sauces
  • 11/12 & 11/13 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 11/12 & 11/13 Handmade Leather Messenger Bag Workshop  
  • 11/15 Stained Glass 101  
  • 11/19 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 11/19 Stained Glass NightLight Workshop  
  • 11/20 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 11/20 Stained Glass 101  
  • 11/22 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop
  •  11/25 Stained Glass: OPEN STUDIO
  • 11/26 & 11/27 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 11/29 Beginning To Wire Work: Findings  
  • 11/30 Wire Weaving Basics

​December, 2022
  • 12/3 Soap Making 101  
  • 12/3 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 12/3 Soap Making 101  
  • 12/9 Date Night In The Kitchen
  • 12/10 Cooking With Kids
  • 12/10 Intro To Cooking: Lasagna
  • 12/10 & 12/11 Hand Forged Knives: Intro to Bladesmithing  
  • 12/11 Spoon Carving All-Day Workshop  
  • 12/13 Crafting a Coin Ring  
  • 12/14 Blacksmithing: OPEN STUDIO  
  • 12/15 Crafting a Custom Leather Belt  
  • 12/17 Blacksmithing 101  
  • 12/18 Blacksmithing for Kids  
  • 12/20 Parent/Child Blacksmithing Workshop

Our Mission: The Michigan Folk School is committed to creating a community engaged in authentic, hands-on experiences through the teaching and sharing of traditional folk arts, crafts, music, and skills in an inspiring natural setting and to promote the preservation of forest and farmland.


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734-436-8973

Campus Address

7734 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Corporate Address

6685 Vreeland Road, Superior Township, MI 48198

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      • gardening & farming
      • glass
      • health & home
      • home improvement
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      • leather
      • millinery & dressmaking
      • music
      • woodworking
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  • Finding Flow
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