Outdoors and in the kitchen, it keeps us fed and unites us with the past. Here at Palmer Folk School we have big plans for cooking classes. Eventually we’d like to have a DEC Approved kitchen for classroom use AND hourly rental. But that’s in the future. For now we’ll be limiting our classes to […]

We believe that making with our hands is absolutely essential to a happy life. Daily we make things with our hands, whether it’s a handcraft or just a simple meal with handmade biscuits. Building things with our hands brings us joy and we’d love to share that with you. We plan to offer leather working, […]

We do classes on several types of metal work. Coppersmithing, blacksmithing, and low-temperature casting. We have an onsite smithy with forges, anvils and all the tools to teach beginners blacksmithing. We also teach beginners coppersmithing (or redsmithing) during our copper bracelet making classes. Another part of our business is casting custom pewter pieces for one […]