Events

Join Mallory Grimm Tubbs, owner of LUNCH, in making filled pastas with ingredients from Sequatchie Cove Farm and around the Cumberland Plateau. Students will learn about ravioli, agnolotti and cannelloni, as well as practice rolling and shaping pasta, incorporating fresh herbs and vegetables into their pasta doughs and make several sauces to accompany the filled pastas. Students will leave class with recipes, pasta and sauce to share with family and friends. 

Lunch, snacks and coffee will be provided by Mallory!

Join Mary Priestely, Sewanee Herbarium Associate, and the editor and illustrator of the Friends of the Herbarium newsletter, The Sewanee Plant Press, to learn to identify our native spring wildflowers and other plants growing in our region. Sequatchie Cove Farm has quite a spectacular plant population, including a variety of spring wildflowers. 

This a great class for beginners, but also an opportunity for the more experienced to walk the farm and observe the spring wildflowers of Sequatchie Cove Farm’s property, which includes extensive woodlands.

Though the tried and true folk method is incredibly effective and accessible, working with the science and spirit of herbs can make your extracts even more powerful. 

We will make extracts from herbs provided by the instructor and from wild herbs, harvested from the farm during class.

You will leave the class with your own jars of these extracts and handouts of all the information covered so you can feel empowered to continue making potent medicines at home and beyond!

This workshop is an exploration into creating with mineral pigments, guided by Chattanooga artist Amanda Brazier. Working - and playing - with gathered earth fosters a deeper narrative of place within our creative practice. We will spend time collecting and learning about iron-rich rocks and clays. We will then process the pigments and prepare our own set of watercolor paints.

Learn the art of pine needle coiling to create a beautiful small lidded basket with basket maker Charlie Sharrar. In this 7 hour hands on class, you will explore the fundamentals of working with pine needles, thread and coiling techniques to create your own coiled base, followed by sturdy walls and a lid to fit on top if you desire.  Choices for thread colors will be provided.

Join local birder Richard Candler, author of Birding Sewanee, on a morning bird walk around Sequatchie Cove Farm. A class for both beginners, who will learn some ID basics and also advanced birders to gather with others and bird Sequatchie Cove Farm’s Property. There will be a special emphasis on identification by bird song.

Join Sujata Singh, chef and owner of Spice Trail in Chattanooga, for an immersive, hands-on Indian cooking class where you’ll learn how to make classic vegetable samosas completely from scratch: from kneading and rolling the dough to shaping, filling, and frying them to golden perfection. We’ll also prepare a fresh, flavorful chutney to pair with your samosas, just as they’re enjoyed across India.

Together we will learn the basics of watercolor painting and pencil sketching, discussing color mixing, shades, brush choices, etc., and then wander out to the property of Sequatchie Cove Farm, which boasts a huge diversity of plants, to paint en plein air! We will learn techniques for observing these plants and wildflowers, and then translate our observations on to paper with pencil and watercolor paint! This will be a meditative, fun, and creative class with a dose of ecology sprinkled in!