Tarweed Folk School's Holiday Market this Saturday and Spring Classes Open for Registration!
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Join us for our Holiday Market this Saturday, December 13th from 10am - 3pm to celebrate Tarweed Folk School's third year and support our community of makers. Find local and handcrafted wooden wares, fiber arts, basketry, herbal salves, seeds, eco-prints and more! View vendor list and more event information on our website.
Tarweed Folk School has also opened registration for its Spring 2026 season of classes, with a range of half-day, full-day, multi-day, and multi-week classes taught by local educators, craftspeople, scientists, tradespeople, small business owners, and members of our Willamette Valley communities.
Participants can register for classes in fiber arts, foods, basketry, woodworking, and more. Tarweed Folk School classes take place at Wade Hardware (400 SW 2nd St) in downtown Corvallis, and across other partner locations in Corvallis. Class costs range from $0 to $295, full and partial tuition scholarships are available to all. Register today on our website or by clicking the links below!
Many thanks,
Margot Schwarz (Tarweed Steering Committee Member)
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Tarweed Folk School
SPRING 2026 CLASSES - REGISTER TODAY!
FEBRUARY
2/4 Herbs to Help Build and Boost Immunity with Jaci Guerena
2/5-26 Woodcarving Animals with Rose Holdorf
2/8 Discovering Lichens with Sunia Yang
2/9 Bean to Bar: Chocolate Making Basics with Duncan Ellinwood
2/8 Make a Whisk Broom with Kiko Denzer
2/13-15 Build a 3 Legged Stool with Duncan Ellinwood & Rose Holdorf
2/21 Discovering Lichens with Sunia Yang
2/21-22 Build a Japanese Style Toolbox with Malcolm Hecht
2/22 Lacto-Fermentation Basics: Sauerkraut with Margot Schwarz
2/28 Yoghurt, Granola, and the Joy of Cooperation with Albert Kong
MARCH
3/1 Mend Your Jeans with Xander Enriquez
3/2-16 Woven Bands on a Backstrap Rigid Heddle Loom with Caroline Feyling
3/8 Sharp Tools Make for Better Work with Kiko Denzer
3/14 Goat Milk Soap Making with Kira Hughes
3/15 Place Based Pigments: Making Paint with Minerals with Hosanna White
3/21 Grow Your Own Color with Chris Bentley & Madelaine Corbin
3/22, 24, & 26 Bowls on a Spring Pole Lathe with Kiko Denzer
APRIL
4/4-5 Willow Basketry: Shopping Basket with Eli & Ben Goodwin
4/11 Build and Weave: Rug Making with a Twining Loom with Sarah Edwardsson & Barry Glassman
4/17-19 Make a Wooden Rake with Kiko Denzer
4/25-26 Patterned Band Weaving on a Backstrap Rigid Heddle Loom with Caroline Feyling
Tarweed Folk School stewards opportunities for community-based, hands-on learning to all ages. The mission of Tarweed Folk School is to tend to the land, ourselves, and each other through the sharing of practical arts and place-based knowledge in the heart of the Willamette Valley. Our Spring 2026 season of classes is in partnership with Wade Hardware, Greenbelt Land Trust, Sustainable Northwest, and Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development.