Blog Posts

Join The Earth Day Compost Tea Party

3/26/2019

With spring right around the corner embrace a new garden groove with a workshop as hands-on fun to explore the best of what might be your backyard or community garden learning how to build a worm compost, new ways to incorporate Permaculture and sustainability into the beauty and bounty of what we grow.

We'll offer a day full of art education at Art Farm Fennville April 20th 2019 and unveil our Monarch Garden for Plein Air painting and free range sketch class. Look for these offerings soon in partnership with airbnb, a free wheeling experience that gives you a bite of what an Artist-in residence might enjoy.

Summer Camps: A Creative Hands On with Airbnb Hosting

3/11/2019

A Brave new creative stance awaits you. C'mon and have some authentic fun with a variety of Locavore offerings in #fabulousfennville

Workshops-Events-#hipcamp-Welcome 2019

1/5/2019

A Great Year of Art Workshops and Events

12/31/2018

The big warm community hug that continues to nurture and help with the realization of workshops and classes. Thank you to the creative community for another great year of Art Education and Events @ArtFarmFennville on The Art Coast.

Coffee CSA @artfarmfennville

11/19/2018

Mitten Makers Market at Virtue Cider

11/6/2018

We've had some fun fall workshops here in #fabulousfennville with a shout out to the fantastic event setting @VirtueCider hosting the next round of community centric Makers of all shape and Artisan types here in the Mitten State, called that as I clip the tips from my gloves. Here's to warm vibes and a season full of community. See you on November 17th with freshly Roasted Artisan Coffee Beans ala Fair Trade Women's Coffee co-op direct from Honduras.
Something to Crow about, Big Cock Coffee swag stuff that sock. Brag worthy French Press fantastic moods lifting. Localvore delight with these perfect cup beans .

Write On! With Great Coffee To Fuel The Flame

10/19/2018

We've rounded up a few dates for those of you wanting to hop back into that writing project.
Finish that project with a push from a group of editors and readers as we make our way into that now seasonal time make-it happen, group think can be of help getting writing projects polished and ready for publication. Let's pull together a few dates... Email us to coordinate.
The Virtue Cider Holiday Event (11/17) will host local artists from Art Farm Fennville, join us?
More workshops being pulled together for the Spring, stay tuned! We plan on a series of weekend Herbal walks kicking off in April -October of 2019 with our Midwest Foraging Author Lisa M. Rose returning to lead this. Stay Tuned more fun@artfarmfennville

Coffee Coffee Coffee. Great Beans from a women's coop in Honduras featured this month at Art Farm Fennville

It's Fall in #fabulousfennville

9/30/2018

Good-bye summer- wow! We had wwoofers that made things fantastically artisticly unhinged with book arts throughout the summer. Hooray to Kevin our Bookbinder and graphic artist that's got a great halloween offering at his site. Look here for a bite of his offerings. We love the summer camps and the #hipcampers who stumbled into art and music offered by Art duJour @artfarmfennville this summer. Next year we'll tweak the August offerings so there's more to choose from.
Fall is a Fantastic time to visit Saugatuck and Douglas with Artist walks and The Blue Coast Art Tour in it's 29th year. Shout out to the creative community, Big Thanks for supporting the event hosted this year.

Art Farm Fennville is booking events for the 2019-2020 season!

Wild-Crafted Sustainably Foraged Handmade Harvest. Register Below.

8/18/2018

bit.ly/forageartfarmfenn

Book Arts: Create A Journal. Coptic Stitch Book Workshop

8/5/2018

The Coptic Stitch: a practical binding technique, Register here.

The beauty of creating a functional form of expression. Those of us pen to paper types, scribblers of pencil sketch, dabblers of water color journal or sketch book. Join us for a three hour hands-on workshop, learn step by step to create your own functional art books.

Materials and tools provided, although we encourage you to bring your own if you prefer. Each participant takes home a fine example of coptic stitch notebook/sketchbook.

$45.00/ with $12 materials fee. 12+. Lunch will be available through Grow, preorder or bring a sack lunch to enjoy

Art du Jour presents
Art Farm Fennville Workshops and Classes, Summer 2018: Book Arts Series with
Kevin Kissinger is a Michigan native and recent nomad. He received a B.A. in painting & sculpture from Albion College. While employed at Hollander's paper store in Kerrytown, he rekindled his interest in bookarts and enjoys sharing the practice with others. Currently he is visiting farms through WWOOFUSA and traveling by bicycle.